Dish TV has collaborated with Amazon Prime to bring Prime Lite benefits to its customers in India. This association spans Dish Group’s entire ecosystem — DTH services, Watcho streaming platform, VZY Smart TVs, and extensive ISP partner network, under which eligible Dish customers will have access to Prime Video’s entertainment library of Indian and international […]

ThinkAnalytics, a specialist in video content discovery and persaonalisation, has announced that Dish TV India has chosen ThinkMediaAI to provide personalised recommendations across its Watcho OTT platform. ThinkAnalytics’ ThinkMediaAI product suite includes personalised content discovery, search, editorial curation, UX orchestration, A/B testing and business insights. ThinkAnalytics will provide search and personalised content discovery across more […]

Maxar Space Systems, a specialist in satellite design and manufacturing, has been awarded a contract by EchoStar Corporation to manufacture EchoStar XXVI, a high-power, geostationary communications satellite based on the Maxar 1300 platform. EchoStar XXVI will deliver coverage to DISH TV customers across all 50 US states, including Puerto Rico, and is engineered for dual […]

EchoStar-owned Hughes Network Systems has reported a 3 per cent fall in revenue and a loss of 30,000 broadband subscribers during the first quarter. It now has 853,000 subscribers. But CEO Hamid Akhavan told analysts that while EchoStar was yet to make any announcements its engineering plans were ready but getting the timing right for […]

US satellite operator EchoStar has not had the best of weeks. August 12th saw the company report revenue had fallen by 9.3 per cent and a net loss of $205.6 million (from a profit during the same period last year of $212.7 million). Its share price, already depressed, fell back by 6.1 per cent to […]

Maxar Technologies, a provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, has received an order for a direct broadcast satellite from Dish, designated ES XXV. This geostationary (GEO) communications satellite will be operated by Dish and deliver content across North America. ES XXV will be built on the Maxar 1300 series platform at […]

DISH Media has unveiled what it says is a first-of-its-kind solution enabling advertisers to access premium linear TV inventory through a real-time, programmatic buying model. The solution, National Linear Programmatic (NLP), will work across DISH TV’s 7+ million households nationwide. NLP is enabled by Beachfront, the sell-side ad server built for convergent TV, and video […]

Warner Bros Discovery and Dish Network have announced that discovery+, the non-fiction real life subscription streaming service, will be available to both Sling TV and Dish TV customers in the US. The platform launched with 70,000+ episodes of premium content, including original series and on-demand programming on Sling on August 8th followed by DISH on […]

India’s four giant DTH operators saw a fall in their combined subscriber numbers according to data from regulator TRAI. Tata Sky, Airtel Digital TV, Dish TV and Sun Direct saw combined subscriber numbers fall slightly from 68.89 million in September 2021 to 68.52 million in December 2021. There are more DTH viewers in the service […]

Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network pay-TV platform suffered a major stock-market hit on May 6th and damaged by news of a thumping 462,000 net subscriber loss during its Q1 trading. Dish’s share price fell 19.4 per cent by the close of trading, and a 52-week ‘low’ and with shares actually trading at $19.57 (compared with $47.05 […]