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...The sale epitomises a growing shift away from expensive cable packages towards streamers, with Sunday Ticket now set to leave its longtime home on AT&T’s DirecTV satellite platform....
...That was somewhat offset by 300,000 new subscribers to its less expensive DirecTV Now streaming service....
...year to be particularly tough, following steep pay-TV subscriber losses in the first quarter, as competition increases from new online TV services such as Dish’s Sling TV, Google’s YouTube TV, and AT&T’s DirecTV...
...The US Department of Justice has asked AT&T to sell either the media company’s cable networks, including CNN, or DirecTV, which is AT&T’s satellite broadcaster, to win approval for the deal....
...Media sector consolidation was a factor in the timing shift, with the acquisition by Charter Communications of Time Warner Cable and the purchase of DirecTV, the satellite group, by AT&T bringing forward...
...AT&T plans to start selling a version of DirecTV, its premium television service, to customers without a satellite dish via smartphones and other devices, as it seeks to appeal to a generation of “cord-cutting...
...Sony and DirecTV sell subscription bundles of channels and are expected to be joined soon by Apple. Verizon is putting together an online video package for mobile devices....
...The proposed deal sparked several other transactions, including AT&T’s agreed $48.5bn purchase of DirecTV, which is thought to have a better chance of regulatory approval....
...Analysts note that acquiring DirecTV would also help AT&T offer faster broadband speeds....
...DirecTV shares rose 2.9 per cent to $75.08 after the largest US satellite TV company unveiled a $3.5bn stock buyback program with chief executive Mike White saying its stock price was “far below our intrinsic...
...AT&T was this week reported to have approached satellite broadcaster DirecTV....
...Its status as an aggregator of some of the most popular professionally-produced content on the web has reportedly attracted a host of suitors, from traditional distributors such as DirecTV to Peter Chernin...
...Disney and Fox evaluated a range of investment proposals from parties including DirecTV, the satellite television provider; AT&T, the telecoms company; and Time Warner Cable, the cable operator....
...Time Warner Cable and DirecTV have both made offers, these people said....
...DirecTV and Dish Network, two satellite operators, are already experimenting with targeted TV ads....
...In total, the quarter represented “the largest net subscriber gain in DirecTV’s history”, said Mike White, chief executive....
It costs money to make a TV show. Using the internet to deliver it doesn’t change that
...The race to buy Hulu, the online video site, became a three-way fight between Amazon, Yahoo and Dish Network, after DirecTV, the satellite TV operator, was ruled out of the auction for submitting too low...
...The channel will be available in 35m US homes, after Dish Network, the satellite provider, struck a deal to carry AXS, alongside other distributors, such as DirecTV, Comcast and Verizon....
...Apple, DirecTV and Microsoft looked at an earlier stage, and according to an AllThingsD report corroborated by one person familiar with the auction this week, Google is still hovering, indicating albeit...
...Tech news from around the web: DirecTV is in advanced talks to be Hollywood’s first partner for early video-on-demand, according to the Los Angeles Times....
...CBS, Time Warner, Comcast, Discovery Communications and DirecTV all posted strong quarterly results this week as content owners benefited from new bidders at the table, and consumer demand for cable and...
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