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 ...

DirecTV today announced an agreement to buy the Dish satellite TV and Sling TV streaming business from EchoStar for a nominal fee of $1 in what the companies called a debt exchange transaction.

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DirecTV is buying Dish and Sling, a deal it ...

DirecTV announced that they are buying EchoStar’s video distribution business, including Dish TV and Sling TV. DirecTV will pay $1 and assume $9.75B worth of debt to buy rival Dish and Sling DirecTV ...