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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — DirecTV is calling off its planned acquisition of rival Dish after the offer was rejected by bond holders at that company. The deal was reliant on Dish bond holders agreeing to trade in ...

DirecTV is rolling out the latest iteration of its ad campaign letting consumers know they can watch DirecTV without a satellite dish. Like its cable and other satellite provider peers, DirecTV has ...