Dish Network’s content serving algorithms have always been something of a closed book, until now. There should be no surprises about which content recommendations specialist is peeling open the cover page, with ThinkAnalytics announcing a landmark—and perhaps inevitable—deployment to drag Dish Network’s editorial content discovery operations into the 2020s. The stunted press release and “no comment” responses received by Faultline suggests that the US satellite TV operator probably wanted things to remain opaque, but a wake-up call has been a long time coming—likely catalyzed by the ongoing merger with DirecTV (an existing customer of ThinkAnalytics). The EchoStar-owned pay TV operator is using the Think360 content discovery platform—a suite of AI-based search algorithms enriched with 40,000 metadata tags—alongside ThinkContentExplorer, a product…