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Why Does DIRECTV and DISH Merger Matter to Consumers?
After over 20 years of starts and stops, on Monday it became official that DIRECTV would acquire DISH, merging the two ...
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DirecTV buys rival Dish as satellite mainstays hunker down against onslaught of streaming services
It's hoping this will appeal to those who have left satellite video services for streaming. The company said that combined, DirecTV and Dish have collectively lost 63% of their satellite customers ...
The New York Times1mon
DirecTV Calls Off Plans to Acquire Dish Network
DirecTV is calling off its plans to acquire the rival satellite TV giant ... but that it required two-thirds of Dish’s creditors to agree to exchange their debt in Dish for debt in the combined ...
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DirecTV scraps Dish acquisition on debt swap deadlock
DirecTV is terminating its proposed acquisition of Echostar's (NASDAQ:SATS) satellite TV business, which includes rival Dish Network, after bondholders rejected a debt exchange that the deal had ...
The Business Journals1mon
Dish Network-DirecTV deal collapses but AT&T still on track to sell stake in latter
DirecTV is canceling its deal to buy satellite TV rival Dish Network after Dish bondholders refused to take part in a debt exchange that was key to the acquisition. DirecTV is canceling its deal ...
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DirecTV Ditches Dish Deal
Under the terms, DirecTV was to assume $9.75 billion of debt associated with Dish and pay $1 in cash. Effectively, EchoStar was giving away its shrinking satellite and streaming TV business in ...
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DirecTV Abandons Deal to Acquire Dish Amid Bondholder Opposition
Satellite TV ... to its balance sheet. DirecTV says that the scrapping of the Dish deal will not impact TPG’s deal to buy out the 70 percent of the company that it does not own from AT&T ...