DirecTV Faces RICO Class Action For Bungling Business Installs, Then...
For several years now DirecTV (now owned by AT&T) has been the focus of a series of lawsuits focused on the NFL’s Sunday Ticket exclusive arrangement. More specifically, the lawsuits have claimed...
View ArticleAT&T Ponders Dumping DirecTV After Investor Backlash, But It's Not Likely To...
As we just got done noting, investors have finally started to grumble about AT&T’s obsession with merger mania (aka “growth for growth’s sake”). AT&T, you’ll recall, spent more than $150...
View ArticleDish Floats DirecTV Merger, Because What's A Little Mindless Monopolization...
We just got done with AT&T’s $86 billion merger with Time Warner, a deal that immediately drove up costs for consumers and competitors alike. That was followed up with the recent approval of...
View ArticleAT&T Is Taking An Absolute Bath On Its DirecTV Merger
So we’ve noted a few times how giant telecom providers, as companies that have spent the better part of the last century as government-pampered monopolies, are adorable when they try (then inevitably...
View ArticleAT&T Spins Off DirecTV After Losing Billions On Its TV Dreams
We’ve noted a few times how giant telecom providers, as companies that have spent the better part of the last century as government-pampered monopolies, are adorable when they try (then inevitably...
View ArticleDirecTV, Roku Give RT The Boot
DirecTV has announced that the company will be removing Russian government-backed news outlet RT from the company’s satellite TV lineup in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to a...
View ArticleCable TV Companies Lost Nearly 5 Million Subscribers in 2021
Remember when the cable and broadcast industry insisted that “cord cutting” (ditching traditional cable TV subscriptions) wasn’t actually a real trend? Or how, once they finally acknowledged it was a...
View ArticleDirecTV Ignores GOP Pressure, Kicks OAN Off Its Cable Lineup
Back in January DirecTV announced it would be kicking the fantasy and conspiracy channel One America News (OAN) off of its satellite TV lineup, removing the biggest distribution avenue for the “news”...
View ArticleDish Network Is Still A Hot Mess With 14 Hour Hold Times A Month After Major...
Dish Network remains a bit of a hot mess a month after a cyberattack effectively wiped the company off the face of the internet and disrupted most of the wireless and TV company’s internal systems. If...
View ArticleDish Lays Off Employees As Cord Cutting Chips Away At Dying Satellite TV...
As we just noted, satellite TV provider Dish Network’s planned pivot into streaming video and wireless isn’t going great. The company continues to bleed traditional satellite TV subscribers, new...
View ArticleDirecTV, Dish Strike Pointless Merger In Last Gasp Effort To Stay Relevant
Culminating a deal that’s been rumored about for the better part of the last twenty years, Dish Network and DirecTV have struck a new merger in a bid to try and remain relevant. It’s not going to help....
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