{"id":84964,"date":"2011-04-20T22:04:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dish-network-reveals-plans-for-blockbuster-retail-stores\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T22:04:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T14:04:06","slug":"dish-network-reveals-plans-for-blockbuster-retail-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dish-network-reveals-plans-for-blockbuster-retail-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Dish Network Reveals Plans for Blockbuster Retail Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n[04-20-11] <strong>Dish Network\u2019s <\/strong>business plans for its recent acquisition of movie rental chain and online streaming video service <strong>Blockbuster Inc.<\/strong> will see the company take on leases for more than 500 of Blockbuster\u2019s retail stores, according to Blockbuster\u2019s bankruptcy-court filings dated April 19.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The U.S. satellite pay-TV operator will close at least 1,000 Blockbuster locations after the acquisition is complete. Dish Network said it purchased Blockbuster primarily for its video-on-demand service to complement Dish Network\u2019s own satellite-TV offering but will use the Blockbuster locations to cross-sell its satellite services. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dish Network bought Blockbuster on April 7 for about $320 million, with $228 million of the purchase made in cash. A U.S. bankruptcy court approved the auction the same day. Dish Network expects to close the acquisition in late April or by May 5 at the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-20-11] Dish Network\u2019s business plans for its recent acquisition of movie rental chain and online streaming video service Blockbuster Inc. will see the company take on leases for more than 500 of Blockbuster\u2019s retail stores, according to Blockbuster\u2019s bankruptcy-court filings dated April 19. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The U.S. satellite pay-TV operator will close at least 1,000 Blockbuster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}