Variety

DirecTV to Acquire Dish in Merger of Satellite TV Rivals

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 ...
Newsweek

DirecTV Cancels Merger With Dish Over Debt Swap

DirecTV announced this week that it is cancelling its merger with Dish due to concerns over a debt swap by bond holders. The agreement hinged on Dish bondholders accepting a debt swap, which would ...

A merger between satellite-TV giants Dish and DirecTV could save around $2 billion a year, and Wall Street analysts say the deal could finally happen

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.
Fox Business

DirecTV scrapping DISH merger

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.
World Soccer Talk

DirecTV, DISH merger could see Sling, DirecTVStream merge

DirecTV is currently in advanced discussions to acquire their rival, Dish Network, as part of a merger. The companies were previously the two biggest satellite television providers in the United ...
Fox Business

DirecTV-Dish merger: How it will impact customers

DirecTV is buying rival Dish Network in an attempt to effectively compete against streaming services. On Monday, the satellite TV provider announced it will pay $1 for EchoStar’s video distribution ...
RBR

DirecTV Will Not Move Forward With Dish Merger

As September came to a close, official word that DirecTV had agreed to acquire EchoStar’s video distribution business, including DISH TV and Sling TV services had tongues wagging. Now, the chances of ...
Fast Company

DirecTV is only paying one dollar for Dish in a major merger of shrinking pay-TV giants

DirecTV has today announced that it will acquire Dish for just $1. Or, more accurately, $1 plus a mountainous backlog of debt. Since the mid-2010s, both pay-TV services have been rapidly shedding ...
KTVU

Satellite merger: DirecTV buys rival Dish and Sling

DirecTV announced that they are buying EchoStar’s video distribution business, including Dish TV and Sling TV. DirecTV will pay $1 and assume $9.75B worth of debt to buy rival Dish and Sling DirecTV ...
TV Technology

DirecTV Drops EchoStar Merger Bid

DirecTV said Wednesday it will drop its bid to merge with EchoStar due to concerns over financing of the deal. The merger would have created the nation’s largest satellite TV service in an industry ...
RBR

DirecTV and Liberty Media complete merger deal

Shareholders of both Liberty Media and DirecTV approved transactions to split off Liberty Entertainment from Liberty Media and merge it with DirecTV. Rumors are already heating up about what lies ...