EchoStar's Dish sale marks disappointing end to Charlie Ergen's 'Seinfeld' strategy
SATSEchoStar(SATS) CNBC·2024-10-01 01:38

Dish's "Seinfeld" strategy appears to have ended quite like the actual show — with its finale a generallyaccepted disappointment. In 2011, Dish cofounder Charlie Ergen first mentioned "Seinfeld" on an earnings call, responding to an analyst's question about his company's mixed bag of assets. Ergen noted a half-hour episode of the 1990s sitcom would usually start with multiple plot lines without a clear direction, "But it all seemed to come together in the last couple of minutes," he said. "And so I think in ...