{"id":62283,"date":"2019-06-10T20:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/atts-directtv-dish-may-merge-satellite-tv-divisions-2\/"},"modified":"2019-06-10T20:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T12:05:25","slug":"atts-directtv-dish-may-merge-satellite-tv-divisions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/atts-directtv-dish-may-merge-satellite-tv-divisions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&#038;T\u2019s DirectTV, Dish May Merge Satellite TV Divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>AT&amp;T<\/strong> <strong>Inc.<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>DirecTV<\/strong> and <strong>Dish Network Corp.<\/strong>, suffering the steepest subscriber losses in the pay-TV industry, are open to a merger and both companies believe such a deal could pass muster with U.S. regulators, according to people familiar with their thinking.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been 17 years since a proposed combination of the two satellite-TV services was deemed bad for consumers and shot down by the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department. But today \u2014 with at least seven competing cable-like packages offered online and the continued growth of streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime \u2014 pay-TV subscribers are switching at increasing rates. DirecTV and Dish together lost almost 2.75 million subscribers in the past year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Read More at Bloomberg &nbsp;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AT&amp;T Inc.\u2019s DirecTV and Dish Network Corp., suffering the steepest subscriber losses in the pay-TV industry, are open to a merger and both companies believe such a deal could pass muster with U.S. regulators, according to people familiar with their thinking. It\u2019s been 17 years since a proposed combination of the two satellite-TV services was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}