Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar reported a slight net Pay TV subscriber gain in the third quarter, along with another big spectrum deal and management tweaks.

In the third quarter, it added 159,000 Sling TV subscribers to hit 1.995 million, but lost 152,000 Dish TV subs to hit 5.171 million, down from 5.323 million as of June, for a total sub count of 7.166 million.

It also unveiled an amended definitive agreement with SpaceX to sell the company’s unpaired AWS-3 licenses for approximately $2.6 billion in SpaceX stock, a transaction that builds on a deal that the companies entered in September.

Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar reported a slight net Pay TV subscriber gain in the third quarter, along with another big spectrum deal and management tweaks.

In the third quarter, it added 159,000 S

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