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 has agreed to buy competing pay-TV provider Dish Network for $1 plus the assumption of debt, the company announced Monday. If approved by regulators, the acquisition will include the purchase ...

New York (CNN) — 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 ...

DirecTV and Dish have agreed to combine in a deal that will create the biggest pay-TV provider in the US with about 18 million subscribers. Under the terms of the transaction, DirecTV will acquire ...

DirecTV is calling off its planned acquisition of rival, and Colorado-based, Dish after the offer was rejected by bond holders at that company. The deal was reliant on Dish bond holders agreeing to ...

NEW YORK — DirecTV is walking away from plans to buy Dish Network over a failed debt-exchange offer, although some analysts expect the satellite TV providers will return to the deal table given the ...