FILE - This file combo made from file photos shows the AT&T logo on the side of a corporate office in Springfield, Ill., left, and a DirecTV satellite dish atop a home in Los Angeles. Seth Perlman, ...

The companies are in talks to create one of the largest pay-TV providers in the country. In 2002, the U.S. government blocked a similar deal. By Lauren Hirsch and Benjamin Mullin Business has gotten ...

There was a time when I was knee-deep in the direct broadcast satellite (DBS) business. I was a young business development person working at the Nielsen Company back in 2002 when DBS was challenging ...

The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, would create one of the largest pay-TV distributors in the U.S. The companies were blocked in an attempt to merge in 2002. By Benjamin Mullin and ...

So much for that dream. DirecTV was going to buy EchoStar (which includes Dish Network) and become the U.S.’s largest pay-TV provider, a move that would make the megacorp perhaps television’s last ...