Amazon Leo starts to roll out its fastest satellite internet service — and reveals just how fast it’ll be

Amazon Leo — the satellite internet service provider once known as Project Kuiper — has started shipping terminals to ...
WPSD Local 6

The pros and cons of DIRECTV Stream

DIRECTV has been around for decades, but you no longer need a satellite dish on your roof. If you’re looking for a streaming ...
TheWrap

DirecTV Cuts Cord on Satellite Service in Some Markets

A DirecTV sattelite dish sits on a roof on May 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Even DirecTV is cutting the cord, at least when it comes to offering satellite service ...
Variety

DirecTV Will No Longer Offer Satellite Subscriptions For New Customers as a Trial Run in Some Markets

DirecTV is experimenting with removing the option to subscribe to its satellite offerings in some markets. Under a trial run, DirecTV is currently experimenting in certain locations with only allowing ...
The Journal Times

Some XM Satellite Radio channels to be offered free through DirecTV

WASHINGTON - DirecTV satellite subscribers will be able to tune in several XM Satellite Radio channels free beginning in November, the Washington company announced Thursday, escalating the satellite ...
TV Technology

DirecTV Brings Programmatic Ads to Satellite Inventory

NEW YORK—DirecTV Advertising is bringing programmatic ad sales capabilities to its linear satellite inventory in a move that it said will provide advertisers to increased inventory, scale and untapped ...
New York Post

DirecTV calls off acquisition of satellite TV rival Dish — as lenders revolt

Satellite TV giant DirecTV called off its deal with Charlie Ergen’s EchoStar to acquire rival Dish TV and other assets. The deal would have created one of the largest pay TV distributors in the ...
Investopedia

DirecTV Scraps Dish Acquisition as Bondholders Push Back on Satellite-TV Merger

DirecTV said it has scrapped its acquisition of Dish Network, after decades of failed attempts at mergers by the two satellite rivals. Bondholders of Dish and subsidiary DBS had pushed back on the ...
Ars Technica

DirecTV announces termination of deal to buy Dish satellite business

DirecTV is pulling out of an agreement to buy its satellite rival Dish after bondholders objected to terms of the deal. DirecTV issued an announcement last night saying “it has notified EchoStar of ...
TechSpot

DirecTV and Dish plan merger to survive streaming era, pending regulator approval

Editor's take: The satellite pay-TV market is steadily declining as customers depart in favor of streaming alternatives. It is not clear whether the two main players in the space, DirecTV and Dish, ...
IndieWire

Why the DirecTV/Dish Merger Matters — Even if You Don’t Have a Satellite Dish

Charter and Comcast have battled for the right to call themselves "America's top cable provider." Now, neither is close. The two sat-TV companies are merging to become America’s biggest MVPD ...