Tag: Directv
DirecTV & Dish In Merger Talks, Again
DirecTV and Dish Network are in fresh talks to merge after years of on-again, off-again wrangling and multiple clampdowns from federal antitrust officials, The New...
AT&T Sells Off DirecTV In Deal With TPG
AT&T will offload its DirecTV operations in a deal with private equity firm TPG that values the business at about US$16 billion, a fraction...
AT&T Can’t Find a Buyer for DirecTV Latin America Business
AT&T Inc. has struggled to interest potential buyers in Vrio Corp., its declining Latin American satellite-TV division, after actively peddling it for at least four months,...
AT&T Eyes Sale Of Half Its DirecTV Stake
AT&T has hired Goldman Sachs Group to see through the process of offloading its stake in DirecTV, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The...
US: NFL, DirecTV get antitrust case paused
The National Football League, its teams, and DirecTV got the Ninth Circuit to pause an antitrust challenge to their broadcast licensing deals while they...
US: NFL and DirecTV must face antitrust case over “Sunday Ticket”...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday, August 13, revived a putative class action alleging the National Football League’s (NFL) telecasting agreement with AT&T’s DirecTV...
US: DirecTV wants out of DOJ’s fight with AT&T, Time Warner
DIRECTV, which was acquired by AT&T for US$49 billion in 2015, on Tuesday, April 17, filed a motion asking US District Judge Richard Leon...
US: DoJ settles DirecTV’s Dodgers channel illegal info-sharing suit
The Justice Department reached a settlement with AT&T unit DirecTV, which it had accused of illegally swapping information with rival pay-TV providers about negotiations...
US: DirecTV wants DOJ antitrust case blacked out
The Justice Department can’t prove that information-sharing between DirecTV Group Holdings and three other content distributors violated federal antitrust law, the company said in...
US: Sessions says ‘No Hesitation’ in enforcing antitrust law
Sen. Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that he would enforce the nation's antitrust laws as attorney general and that "certain mergers should not occur."
"I have...