By Erik Hayden Executive Editor, Business One day after DirecTV and Dish Network agreed to a long expected merger to combine the two embattled satellite giants, a major credit agency rating has ...

Dish bondholders say they won’t go along with a debt exchange that DirecTV has said is needed to complete the merger.

On Monday, the satellite TV provider ... packages that better align with consumer preferences, offering smaller, more ...

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.

Satellite-TV providers DirecTV and Dish are in advanced merger talks, according to reports late Thursday. The Wall Street Journal reported DirecTV could acquire rival Dish, creating one of the ...

It's hoping this will appeal to those who have left satellite video services for streaming. The company said that combined, DirecTV and Dish have collectively lost 63% of their satellite customers ...

DirecTV launched in 1994 and Dish followed in 1996, and the two satellite TV companies provided robust competition to incumbent cable TV operators. But in the past decade, both have seen their ...

The acquisition of Dish Network would make DirecTV the largest pay-TV operator in the U.S. by far, but the consolidation of the rival satellite services isn’t likely to do much to decelerate the ...

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 ...

left, and a DirecTV satellite dish atop a home in Los Angeles.(Seth Perlman, Reed Saxon / AP) AT&T is selling its 70% stake in DirecTV in a seismic deal for the satellite television world that ...