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(WJET/WFXP) — After months of negotiations, DIRECTV announced that it has terminated its deal to acquire DISH DBS, the parent company of DISH, and its streaming service, Sling TV, in a multi ...
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 ...
DirecTV subscribers just lost ESPN, ABC and other Disney-owned channels due to a still-unresolved contract fight — and now the pay-TV provider is informing customers that it’s hiking prices ...
Under the deal, DirecTV will pay Dish’s owner, EchoStar, just $1 for Dish in exchange for assuming its billions of dollars in debt. Private equity firm TPG, meanwhile, will acquire AT&T’s ...
Hughes Electronics Corporation was formed in 1985 when Hughes Aircraft was sold by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to General Motors for $5.2 billion. Surviving parts of Hughes Electronics are today known as DirecTV Group, while the automotive divisions became Aptiv.
ESPN and other Disney-owned channels have gone dark on DirecTV after the sides failed to come to terms on a new carriage agreement, a business impasse that reflects the broader economic pain ...
In the spring of 2011, DirecTV acquired the rights to the Australian series Rake. [35] In the fall of 2011, DirecTV acquired rights to the Canadian sitcom Less Than Kind [36] and the British drama Hit & Miss, the latter of which premiered on June 27, 2012, with a sneak preview, with the first full episode airing on July 11, 2012. [37]
Satellite TV provider DirecTV had exclusive rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket package in the United States until the end of the 2022 NFL season. Although other satellite and cable providers supposedly were allowed to bid on the rights to carry NFL Sunday Ticket if they agreed to carry the NFL Network, DirecTV decided to extend their contract beyond 2014 by paying the NFL $1.5 billion per year ...