From the MultiChannel News...
Allies are racing to the side of EchoStar Communications Corp.'s Charlie Ergen as he struggles to head off an expected Federal Communications Commission vote against the satellite-TV provider's merger with sole competitor DirecTV Inc.
Tuesday, both the Small Business Survival Committee and Frontiers for Freedom, an organization seeking to promote rural business, e-mailed pleas endorsing the merger to industry trade-magazine editors.
By greatly expanding EchoStar's distribution capacity and eliminating duplicative TV-channel offerings, the merger "is literally the only hope" rural communities have of receiving high-speed Internet, wrote Karen Kerrigan, Small Business Survival Committee chairman.
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