EchoStar completes acquisition of DISH Network
Hamid Akhavan will be the president and CEO of the combined company EchoStar, with Charles Ergen serving as executive chairman.
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Hamid Akhavan will be the president and CEO of the combined company EchoStar, with Charles Ergen serving as executive chairman.
Andrew Davies, former EMEA head of Diversified Media & Entertainment and more recently at the helm of Nordlys Broadcast, will now take on the role of Group CEO at Mediability.
SES and Intelsat had been negotiating a deal for at least three months.
Upon completion of the transaction, the Board of Directors will be composed of 15 directors.
The transaction is expected to allow Satellogic to scale its constellation, with the goal of reaching 300+ satellites by 2025.
According to the deal, Ateme will look to acquire 87% of Anevia’s shares 90% of the voting rights held by its majority shareholders.
The combined company is projected to release approximately 40 feature-length films, including seven sequels to prior hits and 100+ originals of episodic content, in 2020.
The merged company will take on the Xperi name but will continue to sell TiVo-branded products.
Following the merger, which was completed Wednesday last week, the merged entity will own more than 140,000 TV episodes and 3,600 film titles.
The shakeup has given more responsibilities to existing Viacom and CBS executives while some senior employees including Kent Alterman are exiting the new entity, which will be called ViacomCBS following the ...
Ericsson has completed the acquisition of Envivio. The transaction was completed through a merger of its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Cindy Acquisition Corporation, with and into Envivio, Inc. Envivio, Inc. survives the merger ...
