DirecTV today announced an agreement to buy the Dish satellite TV and Sling TV streaming business from EchoStar for a nominal fee of $1 in what the companies called a debt exchange transaction.
WASHINGTON—The pay TV and telco industry-backed American Television Alliance told staffers at the Federal Communications Commission’s Media Bureau that the transition to NextGenTV/ATSC 3.0 would ...
DirecTV has notified EchoStar Corp. of its intention to terminate an acquisition of Dish Network Corp. after bondholders failed to consent to a key debt exchange, all but killing a deal to create the ...
DirecTV says it is walking away from its planned acquisition of EchoStar's video distribution service, DISH DBS, after DISH bondholders rejected a debt exchange offer from the satellite TV provider.
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 ...
The DirecTV and Dish satellites are no longer in Low Earth Orbit. The two sat-TV companies are merging to become America's biggest MVPD (Multichannel Video Programming Distributor) with roughly 19 ...
For a deal between Dish and DirecTV to work, AT&T might need to take a back seat in the pay-TV businesses it spent billions to acquire, analyst says.
DirecTV is experimenting with removing the option to subscribe to its satellite offerings in some markets. Under a trial run, DirecTV is currently experimenting in certain locations with only allowing ...
While the cable TV business is declining quickly, satellite TV is decaying even faster. By Benjamin Mullin It’s no secret that the TV business is in upheaval. And in the sea of struggling companies, ...
DirecTV Advertising has announced the programmatic enablement of its linear satellite inventory. Powered by the company’s proprietary ad tech stack, DirecTV Axis, and as part of its mission to ‘set TV ...
NEW YORK—DirecTV Advertising is bringing programmatic ad sales capabilities to its linear satellite inventory in a move that it said will provide advertisers to increased inventory, scale and untapped ...