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 ...

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.

Dish Network’s Sling-powered Internet video streaming service, Dish Anywhere, is not only being contested on legal grounds by Fox — the satcaster also now is fighting with pay TV rivals over its ...

There was a time when I was knee-deep in the direct broadcast satellite (DBS) business. I was a young business development person working at the Nielsen Company back in 2002 when DBS was challenging ...

On paper, combining DirecTV and Dish makes enormous business sense. The DirecTV and Dish customers for Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) service peaked in 2015, about the time that AT&T purchased ...

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 and Dish have agreed to combine in a deal that will create the biggest pay-TV provider in the US with about 18 million subscribers. Under the terms of the transaction, DirecTV will acquire ...