Editing Charlie Ergen (section)

==Personal life==
Ergen was born into an [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopalian]] family<ref name=Viola>{{cite interview |title=Oral History of Viola Ergen, Interviewed by Keith McDaniel|url=http://cdm16107.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15388coll1/id/143/rec/45|journal=Center for Oak Ridge Oral History|date = 18 July 2011|quotation=''"We joined the Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church in '48 when we came here."''}}</ref> in [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee]], on March 1, 1953,<ref name="resume"/> the fourth of five children born to Viola (née Siebenthal) and William Krasny Ergen.<ref name=Cutthroat/><ref>[http://obit.weatherfordmortuary.com/obit_display.cgi?id=1210327 Weatherford Mortuary: "Viola Siebenthal Ergen"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925075237/http://obit.weatherfordmortuary.com/obit_display.cgi?id=1210327 |date=2015-09-25 }} May 21, 2013</ref> His mother was one of the first female accountants in the state of Minnesota.<ref name=Viola /> His father was an [[Austrian people|Austrian]] immigrant who was working in Sweden as a nuclear physicist, and left Europe prior to [[World War II]].<ref name=Cutthroat/> His father coined the phrase "[[China syndrome (nuclear meltdown)|China syndrome]]".<ref name=Cutthroat>{{cite book |last1=Keating |first1=Stephen |title=Cutthroat: High Stakes & Killer Moves on the Electronic Frontier |date=1999 |publisher=Big Earth Publishing |isbn=9781555662486 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2dhM7xdI89EC&q=china&pg=PA83 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|83}} His parents married in Minnesota in 1944 and then moved to [[Camden, New Jersey]], before settling in Oak Ridge where his father accepted a position at the [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]].<ref name=Viola /> Ergen graduated from [[Oak Ridge High School (Tennessee)|Oak Ridge High School]]. He then received a Bachelor of Arts from the [[University of Tennessee at Knoxville]], where he was a member of [[Phi Gamma Delta]] fraternity,<ref name="Yahoo">{{cite web |title=Dish Network, the Meanest Company in America|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dish-network-meanest-company-america-194008712.html?page=3|website=Yahoo.com| date=2 January 2013 }}</ref> and an M.B.A. from [[Wake Forest University]].<ref name="dishboard">{{cite press release |title=Dish Network Board of Directors|url=http://www.dishnetwork.com/about/profile/exec_team/|publisher=Dish Network}}</ref> He was a professional [[blackjack]] and [[poker]] player.<ref name="Yahoo"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Shea|first=Dann|title=Charles Ergen: Meet America's Richest Media Mogul You've Never Heard Of |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/charles-ergen-meet-americ_n_127537 |website=HuffPost Canada |language=en |date=19 October 2008}}</ref>

Ergen is well known for his frugality. His office is furnished with second-hand couches and he does not fly first class.<ref name="Frugal">{{cite news |last=Iwatani |first=Yukari |date=30 October 2001 |title=Former gambler Ergen wins a big round: A career defying the odds |newspaper=National Post |location=Canada}}</ref> Ergen used to sign all the checks his company issued but currently signs only checks for $100,000 or more.<ref name="Yahoo"/> Ergen's supporters call his negotiating style patient and prudent.<ref name="NegStyle">{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/bets-are-placed-will-dishs-ergen-seal-a-deal-1433441530|title=Dish's Finicky CEO Is Wild Card in T-Mobile Talks|first=Shalini|last=Ramachandran|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=4 June 2015|access-date=19 September 2018|via=www.wsj.com}}</ref>

He is married to Cantey ("Candy") McAdam. They have five children.<ref name=forbes>{{cite web|title=The World's Billionaires 2018|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-ergen/|website=Forbes.com|access-date=29 November 2019}}</ref> They live in [[The Village at Castle Pines, Colorado]].<ref name="resume">{{cite magazine |title=BusinessWeek resume|url=http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2001-04-22/resume-charles-w-dot-ergen|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221053727/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2001-04-22/resume-charles-w-dot-ergen|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 21, 2013|journal=Businessweek}}</ref>