DirecTV said on Monday it is acquiring competing satellite service Dish Network following years of talk around a potential merger. The deal, if approved from government regulators, would make ...

Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. DirecTV has dropped its plans to acquire Dish, the company announced Thursday. The deal would’ve created a TV service megamerger, but it fell ...

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 ...

So much for that dream. DirecTV was going to buy EchoStar (which includes Dish Network) and become the U.S.’s largest pay-TV provider, a move that would make the megacorp perhaps television’s ...

EchoStar said it would be able "to focus more clearly on enhancing and further deploying its nationwide 5G Open RAN wireless network." DirecTV and Dish tried to merge over two decades ago.

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

DirecTV on Thursday formally ... chunk of debt to focus on building out a wireless services play. “While we believed a combination of DirecTV and Dish would have benefitted all stakeholders ...

As expected, DirecTV has formally walked away from the deal that would have merged the company with rival satellite cable provider Dish Network. “While we believed a combination of DIRECTV and ...

The deal, which would have created one of the largest pay-TV providers in the United States, fell apart after strong objections from Dish’s lenders. By Lauren Hirsch A second attempt at a major ...

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.

Satellite TV provider DirecTV said on Tuesday it will abandon its planned acquisition of EchoStar’s satellite television business that includes Dish TV by Nov. 22 if bondholders don’t agree to ...

Some bondholders wouldn’t accept a discount, so DirecTV said it will give up its plan to buy rival Dish. Bondholders of Dish parent EchoStar rejected DirecTV’s acquisition terms for its ...