Former editor of Satellite DIRECT magazine. Reported on DIRECTV for 30 years. TV Answer Man, I have enjoyed your articles on DIRECTV buying Dish. My question is if the sale is such a good deal ...

DirecTV announced Monday it’s buying rival Dish Network, ending multiple decades of on-and-off talks about the satellite services merging. The companies have struggled to retain subscribers in ...

It would also cap years of speculation about consolidation in the satellite-TV business. EchoStar just closed its acquisition of Dish in December. While past discussions of a DirecTV-Dish ...

The Wall Street Journal said a deal for DirecTV to buy Dish could come as early as Monday. The paper noted that the two satellite-TV providers have been trying to come together for decades.