If you’re a veteran of getting various out-of-town sports packages (Monday morning is a bit early for the jokes that would normally go here) you’ve probably been annoyed by what goes on during commercial breaks. DirecTV would just show you your market’s commercials, but if you go through the streaming package for MLB… Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Jeffrey Coolidge) One America News has officially been removed from DirecTV, as the TV provider resisted pressure from Republicans to keep the right-wing network in its channel lineup. A DirecTV spokesperson confirmed to Ars today that the channel removal went ahead as scheduled. OAN’s future is in doubt as the […]
Enlarge / Dan Ball, host of One America News show Real America . (credit: One America News) One America News might have to shut down because of DirecTV’s decision to drop the right-wing network from its channel lineup, OAN said in a lawsuit against DirecTV and its owner AT& T. DirecTV recently said it will […]
Enlarge / Dan Ball, host of One America News show “Real America. ” (credit: One America News) One America News is in panic mode after DirecTV decided to drop the right-wing system from its channel lineup. OAN host Dan Ball on Monday night urged viewers to dig up “dirt” on AT& T Board Chairman William […]
The dream may finally soon become a reality: NFL Sunday Ticket accessible without a satellite dish. The Athletic reported in September that the NFL’s preferred destination for Sunday Ticket is Apple, but this process is obviously going to be a competition with the rights going to the highest bidder. Now Sports… Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez ) AT& T has completed its spinoff of DirecTV after six years of mismanagement in which nearly 10 million customers ditched the company’s pay-TV services. AT& T bought DirecTV for $49 billion ($67 billion including debt) in July 2015 even though DirecTV and other traditional TV services were […]
Enlarge / AT&T’s logo at its corporate headquarters on March 13, 2020 in Dallas, Texas. (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez ) Nearly six years after buying DirecTV for $48.5 billion, AT&T today announced a deal to sell a minority stake in the business unit and spin it out into a new subsidiary. AT&T said […]
Enlarge / A man walks with an umbrella outside of AT&T corporate headquarters on March 13, 2020, in Dallas, Texas. (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez) AT&T lost 617,000 customers from DirecTV and its other TV businesses in the final quarter of 2020, capping a year in which it lost nearly 3 million customers in […]
Enlarge / A DirecTV satellite dish seen outside a bar in Portland, Oregon, in October 2019. (credit: Getty Images | hapabapa) AT&T is reportedly closing in on a deal to sell a stake in DirecTV to TPG, a private-equity firm. Unfortunately for customers hoping that AT&T will relinquish control of DirecTV, a Reuters report on […]
Expand / AT&T corporate offices in November 10, 2020 at El Segundo, California. (credit: Getty Images AT&T is frustrated at the 15 billion supplies it’s obtained for DirecTV and contains”told potential losers it may offset the auction entirely if it does not get much better deals,” that the New York Post reported , citing”sources near […]