NFL Sunday Ticket To Come To YouTube TV, YouTube Primetime Channels In 2023
The end of an era for DirecTV and the National Football League was made official Wednesday with the announcement that Google has won the right to exclusively distribute the NFL Sunday Ticket out-of-market pro football games package via its YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels…
Ergen: DISH, DirecTV Merger Talk Would Be More Likely After Election Day
The long-proposed merger between the country’s two direct-to-home satellite TV services could be moving closer to reality, if recent comments by DISH Network chairman Charlie Ergen prove to be more than wishful thinking. Ergen, speaking to analysts following the company’s Q3 earnings report Wednesday, said…
RT America To Cease Operations In Wake Of Crisis In Ukraine
Faced with cascading removals of Russian Today channels from distribution services and platforms around the world in the wake of the crisis in Ukraine, RT America, the U.S.-facing news/opinion channel backed with Russian-government funding, announced it will cease operations and lay off staff in coming…
AT&T Video Services Get Rebadged `DirecTV Stream’ Thursday
AT&T TV streaming video services, including AT&T NOW, will be spun off and re-branded DirecTV Stream starting Aug. 26th as the company relaunches its restructured live subscription video services (excluding HBO Max) in tandem with new partner, private equity investor TPG Capital. The company has…
AT&T Reveals Pay-TV Subscriber Losses Slowed In Q2-2021
Due to release its Q2-2021 financial statement on July 22nd, media Goliath AT&T issued a preliminary SEC filing Friday showing the video subscriber count for the combined DirecTV, AT&T TV and AT&T U-verse divisions totaled 15.412 million, marking a 2.3 million subscriber loss year-on-year from…
AT&T Sells DirecTV Stake, Spins Out Pay-TV Services
AT&T officially affirmed last week that it will be selling a 30% stake in its DirecTV direct-to-home satellite operations to private equity investment firm TPG and will spin off the company into a new business. AT&T will continue to hold onto the remaining controlling stake…
Report: AT&T Trying To Sell Legacy Pay-TV Services
The future status of the DirecTV satellite TV and U-verse telco-TV services could be changing again following reports that AT&T is talking to private equity firms to sell portions of certain legacy pay-TV assets. A report by CNBC citing sources familiar with negotiations Tuesday said…
Ergen Sees Merger With DirecTV DTH And DISH As ‘Inevitable’
Charlie Ergen, the founder and chairman of DISH Network and EchoStar, said on a Q2 financial call with analysts Friday that a merger between the two direct-to-home (DTH) satellite services, DirecTV and DISH, is likely inevitable. In light of AT&T’s difficulties maintaining DirecTV’s subscriber base…
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