Ergen, the 71-year-old maverick who co-launched EchoStar in 1980 when he and his wife sold satellite dishes door to ... $7.1 billion in cash. Aug. 2, 2021 The Dish-DirecTV consolidation is ...

As part of the transaction, DirecTV was to pay $1 to buy the pay-TV business called Dish DBS, including Dish and Sling TV, with the assumption of about $9.75 billion of Dish's debt. Reuters ...

At the end of Q2, Charter had 13.3 million total video customers across America and Comcast clocked in at 13.2 million. Upon closing of the Dish acquisition, DirecTV will continue to be led by ...

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 ...

Another big media acquisition has finally been confirmed. The deal, which is still subject to regulatory approval, is set to create one of the nation's largest pay-TV providers. "The combination ...

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 ...

Dish needed to do something here - and fast. The number 2 in satellite (most Dish and DirecTV customers still have satellite dishes, though the majority of their new customers opt to go dish-free ...

DirecTV, which warned earlier this month it would terminate the deal by 11:59 p.m. Friday without an agreement on the debt, said it has given EchoStar formal notice. Dish hadn’t initiated fresh ...

as the deadline arrives for a debt deal that is key to the company’s proposed acquisition by rival DirecTV. The steering committee of Dish lenders made its case to a wider group of bondholders ...

DirecTV’s plan to merge with Dish to create the world’s largest pay-TV distributor has hit a snag. A group of investors that owns more than $10 billion of Dish bonds is threatening to blow ...