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BRIEF: Alorica, Dish Network job fairs scheduled for next week

Feb 18, 2011 (El Paso Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- Those looking for employment can attend two job fairs next week.

The Dish Network is having a job fair Monday to find call takers to fill 30 to 50 positions, the company announced.

The company's East Side call center handles customer calls for its satellite TV service. ( Read Dish Network more... )

AT&T-Dish Network deal seen as a go, despite EchoStar's plan to buy Hughes

EchoStar's intent to buy Hughes Communications shouldn't have any impact on AT&T's (NYSE: T) interest in acquiring Dish Network (Nasdaq: DISH) and EchoStar, a Wall Street analysis said.

"This acquisition really does nothing to jeopardize, or for that matter enhance, a long-rumored deal between AT&T and Dish," Paul Ausick wrote on 24/7WallSt.com. The bigger question, he continued, is whether regulators will allow such an AT&T satellite acquisition to happen because "terrestrial cable broadband providers Time Warner Cable and Cablevision Systems are certain to object." Of course, as history shows, everybody and his brother objected to Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) buying NBCUniversal. ( Read Dish Network more... )

AT&T Deal for Dish Network Still Okay After EchoStar/Hughes Merger? (SATS, HUGH, DISH, T, VZ, DTV, CMCSA, TWC, CVC)

EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS) has agreed to acquire Hughes Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: HUGH) for about $2 billion, including debt, in a deal that would give EchoStar, which makes set-top boxes and satellites for Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH), additional broadband satellite capability. Hughes shareholders get $60.70/share, which is less than Friday’s closing price of over $61/share, but a 31% premium over Hughes’ price on January 19th, the date on which speculation about the deal hit the news. Apollo Management IV L.P. is the majority owner of Hughes. ( Read Dish Network more... )

Courtesy : Smart Grid , Fierce Cable & 247Wallst