Dish Q4 Earnings: Pay-TV Operations Helped By Sling TV, Company Could Bid For More Spectrum

Dish Network released its 2015 fourth quarter & full year earnings report recently.  Dish’s pay-TV subscriber base continued to shrink but growth in ARPU resulted in moderate pay-TV revenue growth for the year 2015. Additionally, the company started including Sling TV metrics into its reported pay-TV numbers from Q2 2015 and the net subscriber additions of Sling TV have helped reduce the rate of decline in the traditional pay-TV subscriber base. On the earnings call, Dish’s management state...