Dade Hayes Finance EditorAT&T’s efforts to unload DirecTV make the latter’s eventual combination with Dish Network all the more “inevitable,” Dish chairman Charlie Ergen said Friday.The pay-TV rabble-rouser has used that word before to describe the longtime satellite rivals, and he stipulated during a call with Wall Street analysts after Dish’s third-quarter results that he had no new inside information to impart.
But he said private equity firms controlling DirecTV — the most likely near-term scenario as bids are evaluated by AT&T — means that “whether it’s a year from now or 10 years from now, I believe it’s inevitable those companies come together.” AT&T has not commented publicly on the process of retooling its pay-TV operations, which.
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