dish network corp fell short of profit expectations thursday as the telecommunications company shed subscribers across its wireless and paytv businesses shares were off 09 in premarket trading thursday the company reported thirdquarter net income of 557 million or 88 cents a share up from 505 million or 86 cents a share in the yearprior quarter analysts tracked by factset were expecting 91 cents in earnings per share dish’s dish revenue declined slightly to 445 billion from 453 billion though the revenue total matched the factset consensus the company saw net paytv customers fall by about 13000 in the third quarter whereas it posted gains of 116000 in the yearearlier quarter dish finished the quarter with 1098 million paytv subscribers including 842 million using dish tv and 256 million using sling tv in dish’s wireless business the company shed a net of roughly 121000 subscribers during the quarter whereas it lost about 212000 in the yearprior quarter dish had 877 million retail wireless subscribers as of the end of the quarter shares of dish have risen 33 so far this year as the sp 500 spx has increased 24