The Dish sale should enable DIRECTV to be more competitive in the next several years. However, the satellite TV industry is in sharp decline thanks to the explosion of streaming services such as ...

DIRECTV revealed less than an hour later that it was buying Dish’s satellite TV service, and Sling TV. Federal regulators will have to approve the Dish/Sling sale and that could take a year.

DirecTV announced Monday it ... allowing them to more easily compete with pay TV rivals and streaming services. Antitrust regulators’ wariness of satellite TV mergers comes from a time when ...

By Georg Szalai, Alex Weprin Satellite TV giant DirecTV and Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar ... commercial relationship” with AT&T around the sale of other services. The merger has been years in ...

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.

“We never thought a sale was likely before 2026 or 2027 ... headwinds and competition from SpaceX Starlink.” Satellite TV bet Combining DirecTV and Dish would create a company accounting ...

DirecTV unveiled plans Monday to buy Dish Network, bringing together two satellite TV rivals at a time when both are rapidly losing market share to streaming platforms. Under the terms of the deal ...

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 ...

Coach Prime wants consumers to know they can watch DirecTV without a satellite dish. The company best known for providing the traditional TV bundle through satellite dishes posted on the sides ...

But DirecTV has significantly less negotiating leverage than its competitors in traditional TV. That’s because satellite companies don’t have the same hook to retain customers when the ...