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.

DirecTV and Dish are in advanced talks to merge in a deal that would create the largest U.S. pay-TV provider, with almost 20 million subscribers, people familiar with the matter said. An agreement ...

DALLAS — Dallas-based AT&T is selling its majority stake in DirecTV to private equity firm TPG Partners for $7.6 billion, ending the communication giant's remaining ties to the entertainment industry.

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 announced the debut of MyHome Team an add-on to their MySports genre pack. Content includes live local games from 37 teams across 20 regional sports networks including the FanDuel Sports ...

Credit ratings agency S&P Global notes the "linear TV industry is rapidly shrinking" and the increased scale provided by a merger may not offset subscriber declines. By Erik Hayden Executive Editor, ...

Satellite TV provider DirecTV said on Tuesday it will abandon its planned acquisition of EchoStar’s satellite television business that includes Dish TV by Nov. 22 if bondholders don’t agree to a debt ...

Today DirecTV became the latest company to launch a FAST Channel. Thr number of FSST Channels has tripled over the past few years, as conumser adoption to free ad supported streaming content grows in ...