Tag: DIRECTV
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AT&T’s COO is Open to Selling DIRECTV
Back in February during DISH’s 4th quarter 2019 earnings call DISH was asked about a possible DISH and DIRECTV merger. According to DISH executives, it eventually makes sense for these two services to merge as the market changes. DISH’s CEO Charlie Ergen said that the merger of DISH and DIRECTV feels “inevitable.” Now AT&T’s COO…
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DISH Thinks That DISH & DIRECTV Should Merge
Today during DISH’s 4th quarter 2019 earnings call DISH was asked about a possible DISH and DIRECTV merger. According to DISH executives, it eventually makes sense for these two services to merge as the market changes. DISH’s CEO Charlie Ergen said that the merger of DISH and DIRECTV feels “inevitable.” Back on September 30th 2019…
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DIRECTV Is Losing a Top Executive as He Leaves AT&T
AT&T has recently seen a growing number of executives leave the company after recent purchases like Time Warner and DIRECTV. Now one of DIRECTV’s longest and highest ranking executives, Dan York, is leaving AT&T after two decades. York has served as vice president and chief content officer for DIRECTV since 2012. York was responsible for…
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AT&T’s DIRECTV, U-Verse, & AT&T TV NOW Lost Over 4 Million TV Subscribers in 2019
2019 was a very bad year for cable TV owners. We are now getting an idea of just how bad it was. We learned that AT&T lost over 4 million TV subscribers in 2019 when looking at DIRECTV, U-Verse TV, and AT&T TV NOW. AT&T has been excitedly pointing out that losses slowed slightly in…
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AT&T is Racing to Prevent a DIRECTV Satellite from Exploding After a Malfunction
Recently it was reported that AT&T would not be launching new satellites into space for DIRECTV. Now a backup DIRECTV satellite has suffered a battery malfunction that AT&T warns could cause the satellite to explode according to to a report from Space News. In December, AT&T says an unexplained anomaly caused “significant and irreversible thermal…
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How To Stop Getting Spam Email And Mail From Dish, Spectrum, Comcast, DIRECTV, & More in 2020
At the beginning of every new year, phone calls and letters with offers and promotions trying to win you back as a cable, internet, or phone customer seems to spike. Luckily, there are ways to make these advertisements and promotional offers stop. Do Not Call Registry First things first. Put your phone number on the…
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AT&T is Adding Ads When You Pause to Epix & Starz
AT&T’s advertising company has said that they will be introducing pause ads to Epix and Starz channels on DIRECTV and AT&T TV Now. We first learned about pause ads toward the end of 2018, when AT&T and Hulu were both working on ads that would appear when viewers paused their DVR recordings. Then, at the…
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AT&T TV NOW is Dropping The Fusion Channel
Today AT&T TV NOW contacted subscribers to inform them that on January 23rd, 2020 AT&T will be dropping the Fusion channel from AT&T TV NOW. Fusion is owned by Univision Communications and describes itself as a channel that offers “the latest news and information from Hispanic America’s most trusted team of journalists. From Jorge Ramos…
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AT&T Warns That DIRECTV Could Lose Local Channels After STELA Expires
Right now, the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA) is set to expire in just over a week. STELA gives satellite services like DISH and AT&T access to local channels among other things. Now AT&T has come out and publicly warned that if this rule expires DIRECTV would lose access to local channels. The…
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DIRECTV’s Monthly Price Is Up 20% Since AT&T Purchased Time Warner
When AT&T purchased Time Warner, it brushed off concerns that the merger would drive up the price of cable TV by reducing competition. Now AT&T has raised the price of DIRECTV by 20% since its merger with Time Warner according to the New York Post. AT&T has been slowly raising the cost of DIRECTV in…