Dish Unbroken
EchoStar Communications Corp. chairman Charlie Ergen is never afraid to mix it up with programmers — or to drop their networks. He briefly dumped a host of Viacom Inc. services, including Nickelodeon and the CBS broadcast-TV stations, in March 2004. Weeks later that same year, he threatened to delete a group of Turner Broadcasting System Inc.

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