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DirecTV agrees to buy Dish for $1, assuming its billions of dollars in debt

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 subscribers in the ...
Ars Technica

DirecTV agrees to buy satellite rival Dish (and its debt) for one dollar

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.
CNN

DirecTV agrees to buy Dish for $1

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 subscribers in the ...
Variety

Dish’s Debt-Exchange Sale to DirecTV Is ‘Tantamount to a Default,’ Credit-Rating Agency Says

EchoStar‘s proposed deal to sell Dish Network to DirecTV — for $1 cash and the assumption of $9.75 billion in debt — is akin to Dish defaulting on its debt securities, according to credit-rating ...
Variety

DirecTV to Acquire Dish in Merger of Satellite TV Rivals

DirecTV and Dish Network, longtime satellite TV adversaries, are set to merge. DirecTV announced a deal Monday with Dish parent company EchoStar to acquire Dish in a deal valued at nearly $10 billion ...