{"id":85711,"date":"2010-12-06T20:56:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T12:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/directv-ceo-no-acquisitions-in-the-short-term\/"},"modified":"2010-12-06T20:56:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T12:56:47","slug":"directv-ceo-no-acquisitions-in-the-short-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/directv-ceo-no-acquisitions-in-the-short-term\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV CEO: No Acquisitions in the Short-Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-06-10] <strong>DirecTV<\/strong> expects to generate roughly $30 billion in annual sales and serve 30 million customers by 2013, DirecTV CEO Michael White said in a statement issued to investors Dec. 3.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; White said company will add 200,000 customers in the final quarter of 2010, bringing its total subscriber base to 19.1 million and putting the operator on track to take in $24 billion in revenue this year.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe\u2019re gaining share as the rate of customer turnover is also improving. From here on out, we will pursue an organic growth strategy and I don\u2019t see any acquisitions in the near term. The company looked at places such as China and India but was deterred by the strict regulatory requirements. We will buy back a similar number of shares each year through 2013, repurchasing roughly $5.5 billion in stock this year,\u201d White said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-06-10] DirecTV expects to generate roughly $30 billion in annual sales and serve 30 million customers by 2013, DirecTV CEO Michael White said in a statement issued to investors Dec. 3. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; White said company will add 200,000 customers in the final quarter of 2010, bringing its total subscriber base to 19.1 million and putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-85711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85711"}],"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=85711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}