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 ...
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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 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.
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 agreed to buy satellite rival Dish network Monday, ending decades of on-and-off talks in a deal that will create one of the country’s largest pay TV distributors with a combined 20 million ...
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 ...
Charter and Comcast have battled for the right to call themselves "America's top cable provider." Now, neither is close. The two sat-TV companies are merging to become America’s biggest MVPD ...
DirecTV is abandoning its acquisition of Dish assets after a group of bondholders refused to accept the terms of a proposed debt offer, a DirecTV spokesperson said. "A successful exchange was a ...
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 ...