Satellite TV providers Dish Network and DirecTV are no doubt excited about a recent Supreme Court Ruling. The decision overruled a Kentucky law allowing local governments to tax satellite TV.
A joint statement from the satellite companies released on Friday said, “DIRECTV and DISH Network applaud the Kentucky Supreme Court’s unanimous ...
Archive for August, 2009
Written by admin on August 29th, 2009
Written by admin on August 29th, 2009
John Eggerton
Satellite carriers would be able to put local TV station HD signals on a separate dish, according to a new draft of the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act.
That is one of a few changes to the original June 12 draft of the bill. The latest draft ...
Written by admin on August 29th, 2009
In a long-running patent infringement dispute with DISH Network Corp. and EchoStar Corp., set-top box maker TiVo Inc. was awarded an additional $103-million in damages plus interest, by a federal judge in Texas Tuesday.
TiVo, already the recipient of a 2006 jury award for $104-million in damages and lost profits, due ...
Written by admin on August 29th, 2009
By William McQuillen and Susan Decker
Bloomberg News
Dish Network was ordered by a federal judge to stop using a digital video recording service that infringes a TiVo patent.
Dish and EchoStar were also told to pay $192.7 million to TiVo in damages and interest as their software still infringes TiVo’s patent ...
Written by admin on August 29th, 2009
sorry, dish network, but wall street doesn’t seem to love you like it used to.
On tuesday, collins stewart analyst tom eagan cut his fiscal year 2009 estimate for the dbs provider, saying that he does not see “a sustainable turn-around in sight.” eagan cited dish’s lackluster first quarter results and ...
Written by admin on August 29th, 2009
The united states and canada adopted an agreement tuesday to allow law enforcement authorities of both nations to share personnel and cross the border more easily to fight human, drug and weapon smuggling on waterways that separate them.
Homeland security secretary janet napolitano and canadian minister of public safety peter van ...
