ABC7

DirecTV agrees to buy Dish for $1, assuming its billions of dollars in debt

DirecTV announced Monday it's buying rival Dish Network, ending multiple decades of on-and-off talks about the satellite services merging. The companies have struggled to retain subscribers in the ...

A merger between satellite-TV giants Dish and DirecTV could save around $2 billion a year, and Wall Street analysts say the deal could finally happen

For a deal between Dish and DirecTV to work, AT&T might need to take a back seat in the pay-TV businesses it spent billions to acquire, analyst says.
AOL

DirecTV agrees to buy Dish for $1

DirecTV announced Monday it’s buying rival Dish Network, ending multiple decades of on-and-off talks about the satellite services merging. The companies have struggled to retain subscribers in the ...
Variety

DirecTV to Acquire Dish in Merger of Satellite TV Rivals

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 ...
KSAT

DirecTV calls off acquisition of rival Dish, possibly ending a yearslong pursuit

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 the debt they ...
NBC New York

DirecTV says Dish purchase is off

DirecTV is abandoning its acquisition of Dish assets after a group of bondholders refused to accept the terms of a proposed debt offer, a DirecTV spokesperson said. "A successful exchange was a ...