Article: The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn., Business People Column.

By Larisa Brass, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 15-- In the news, Charlie Ergen is described as a wheeler-dealer, a former professional poker player who's now playing the big time with his company -- Colorado-based satellite giant EchoStar Communications.

He's built his firm from a 1980s satellite television sales shop into the second-largest provider of satellite TV in the country.

Lately he's been in the public eye for efforts to combine EchoStar and its DishNetwork service with the largest satellite TV company in the nation -- Hughes Electronics, which sells DirecTV. Ergen's company employs ...

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