DirecTV and Dish Network are nearing a merger, which would create the largest U.S. pay-TV provider with 20 million subscribers. Both companies are grappling with customer losses due to the shift ...

Freesat explained: "Yes, to use Freesat you need a satellite dish, but it doesn’t need to be new! Even if it’s a Sky ...

Dish Network is hoping to win over rural and small-town Americans with its satellite-based TV service — and it is calling out DirecTV as part of a new marketing campaign.

Dish, which once had more than 14 million customers, ended the second quarter of 2024 with 8.07 million pay-TV subscribers (including 6.07 million for Dish TV and 2 million for Sling TV).

Dish, the television provider, failed to move its dead satellite into a higher orbit, where it would pose little threat to active satellites, the agency announced. The company agreed to pay a ...

Private equity firm TPG has reached an agreement to acquire the remainder of DirecTV and EchoStar’s wider satellite TV business, including Dish.

Dish launched the EchoStar-7 satellite in 2002, and its orbital debris mitigation plan was approved by the FCC in 2012. In a statement provided to Ars, Dish said the satellite was "exempted from ...