DirecTV had proposed acquiring Dish TV and Sling TV from EchoStar in a deal involving a $1 payment and the assumption of roughly $9.8 billion in debt. The transaction depended on multiple ...

DirecTV offered to acquire Dish's pay TV business for a nominal $1 plus the assumption of roughly $10 billion in debt. DirecTV is abandoning its acquisition of Dish assets after a group of ...

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.

DirecTV was looking to acquire Dish TV and Sling TV from its owner EchoStar in a debt exchange transaction that included a payment of $1, plus the assumption of approximately $9.8 billion in debt.

On Sept. 30, DirecTV and EchoStar announced the deal under which DirecTV was to buy rival Dish and its Sling TV business. That would have created the largest U.S. provider in the declining pay-TV ...

(Reuters) -U.S. satellite TV provider DirecTV said on Thursday it had terminated its agreement to acquire Echostar's satellite television business, which includes rival Dish TV, over a failed debt ...

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 ...

“While we believed a combination of DIRECTV and DISH would have benefitted all stakeholders, we have terminated the transaction because the proposed Exchange Terms were necessary to protect DIRECTV’s ...

DirecTV was looking to acquire Dish TV and Sling TV from its owner EchoStar in a debt exchange transaction that included a payment of $1, plus the assumption of approximately $9.8 billion in debt.

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