Dish customers in more than 100 TV markets were met with a surprise this week: their local ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC stations suddenly disappeared. The widespread outage stems from a carriage dispute ...
The broadcaster claims Dish violated federal “good faith” negotiation requirements tied to retransmission consent agreements.
Satellite TV giant DirecTV called off its deal with Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar to acquire rival Dish TV and other assets. The deal would have created one of the largest pay TV distributors in the ...
DirecTV announced this week that it is cancelling its merger with Dish due to concerns over a debt swap by bond holders. The agreement hinged on Dish bondholders accepting a debt swap, which would ...
DISH Network customers across the country could lose access to several major networks and local affiliated stations due to an ongoing dispute with Gray Television. While the media giants are still in ...
DirecTV is pulling out of an agreement to buy its satellite rival Dish after bondholders objected to terms of the deal. DirecTV issued an announcement last night saying “it has notified EchoStar of ...
The mega-transaction would have created the largest U.S. TV provider. By Georg Szalai, Alex Weprin Satellite TV giant DirecTV said it was abandoning a deal with Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar to acquire ...
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 ...
DirecTV on Thursday formally announced that it was nixing the agreement with EchoStar to buy Dish Network. The deal is being terminated effective as of 11:59 p.m. ET on Nov. 22, DirecTV said.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (WJET/WFXP) — After months of negotiations, DIRECTV announced that it has terminated its deal to acquire DISH DBS, the parent ...
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 ...