Dish Keeps Losing Customers Amid Pressure to Repay Debt (1)

Dish Network Corp., the satellite-TV provider struggling to repay debt, kept losing customers late last year, according to results released Thursday by its parent company EchoStar Corp.

The company lost 314,000 pay-TV subscribers in the fourth quarter, more than the same period a year earlier, EchoStar said in a statement. It shed 123,000 retail wireless subscribers, also more than a year earlier, even as it aspires to grow the mobile business as its new foundation.

EchoStar Chief Executive Officer Hamid Akhavan said the company is in discussions with numerous parties to raise money for debt repayments.

“There are ...