Market Rewards Dish Bondholders’ Resistance to Ergen’s DirecTV Merger
Bondholders signed a cooperation agreement to act as a unified group and filed litigation against Dish’s recent asset ...
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DIRECTV ends plans to aquire DISH & Sling TV
After months of negotiations, DIRECTV announced that it has terminated its deal to acquire DISH DBS, the parent company of ...
DirecTV Ditches Dish Deal
DirecTV on Thursday formally announced that it was nixing the agreement with EchoStar to buy Dish Network. The deal is being ...
DirecTV calls off acquisition of rival Dish, possibly ending a yearslong pursuit
DirecTV is calling off its planned acquisition of rival Dish after the offer was rejected by bond holders at that company ...
DirecTV terminates Dish deal over failed debt swap
The proposed deal, initially announced in September, was seen as a strategic consolidation in a shrinking pay-TV market.
DirecTV Calls Off Plans to Acquire Dish Network
The deal, which would have created one of the largest pay-TV providers in the United States, fell apart after strong ...
DirecTV Abandons Deal to Acquire Dish Amid Bondholder Opposition
DirecTV had forecast that the combination could generate cost synergies of at least $1 billion per year. The deal was seen as ...
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Dish and DirecTV Give Up on Merger
The ending of the Dish acquisition will not likely change who owns DirecTV. AT&T had already sold a 30 percent share of ...
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DirecTV Leaves Dish Network Deal: Tougher Work Ahead
Dish bondholders did not agree to exchange their debt for new debt in the merged entity at a discounted rate, taking a ...
DirecTV announces termination of deal to buy Dish satellite business
In the deal announced on September 30, DirecTV was going to buy the Dish satellite TV and Sling TV streaming business from EchoStar for a nominal fee of $1. DirecTV would have taken on $9.75 billion ...