Satellite TV providers Dish Network Corp. and DirecTV Inc. usually unleash attack advertisements against their cable TV competitors. But as Dish lost subscribers while DirecTV gained, Dish has ...
Satellite TV giant DirecTV called off its deal with Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar to acquire rival Dish TV and other assets. The deal would have created one of the largest pay TV distributors in the ...
The TV Answer Man –Follow me on X. Former editor of Satellite DIRECT magazine. Reported on DIRECTV for 30 years. The DIRECTV-Dish merger is attracting opposition from Dish’s creditors who say the ...
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DIRECTV and Dish Network Don’t Have a Chance

DIRECTV’s plan to combine with Dish collapsed after Dish noteholders rejected a discounted debt swap, scuttling the latest attempt to consolidate satellite TV. -The setback comes amid accelerating ...
DirecTV has agreed to buy competing pay-TV provider Dish Network for $1 plus the assumption of debt, the company announced Monday. If approved by regulators, the acquisition will include the purchase ...
DirecTV is calling off its planned acquisition of rival Dish after the offer was rejected by bond holders at that company. The deal was reliant on Dish bond holders agreeing to trade in the debt they ...
U.S. satellite TV provider DirecTV said on Thursday it had terminated its agreement to acquire Echostar's SATS.O satellite television business, which includes rival Dish TV, over a failed ...
DirecTV and Dish Network, longtime satellite TV adversaries, are set to merge. DirecTV announced a deal Monday with Dish parent company EchoStar to acquire Dish in a deal valued at nearly $10 billion ...
Satellite TV provider DirecTV said on Tuesday it will abandon its planned acquisition of EchoStar’s satellite television business that includes Dish TV by Nov. 22 if bondholders don’t agree to a debt ...
DirecTV is pulling out of an agreement to buy its satellite rival Dish after bondholders objected to terms of the deal. DirecTV issued an announcement last night saying "it has notified EchoStar of ...
DirecTV on Thursday formally announced that it was nixing the agreement with EchoStar to buy Dish Network. The deal is being terminated effective as of 11:59 p.m. ET on Nov. 22, DirecTV said.