DirecTV Inc. will triple what it pays to the National Football League starting next year to renew its exclusive rights to the “NFL Sunday Ticket” package of games, sources said. The increase to $400 ...
NEW YORK — DirecTV intends to make some money — even if that means slower subscriber growth. The quarterly financials of parent Hughes Electronics, released Monday, showed fewer new subscribers to the ...
When Roxanne Austin was promoted to president of DirecTV in June, the nation’s leading satellite television provider was in a bad slump. Costs had rocketed, the company’s growth rate was slowing, and ...
NEW YORK — DirecTV is shutting down its broadband subsidiary and laying off half the unit’s 400 employees as part of a drive to eliminate expensive, unprofitable units. Division was slated to lose ...
increased 11.3% to $2,209.7 million, compared with $1,985.1 million in the second quarter of 2001. EBITDA(1) for the quarter increased 50.1% to $123.1 million compared with $82.0 million in the second ...
Even though Hughes Electronics Corp. faces strong federal opposition to plans to merge its DirecTV unit with EchoStar Communications Corp., Hughes executives yesterday sought to paint their ...
The NFL yesterday announced a five-year extension of its agreement with DirecTV, the satellite service that carries the popular NFL Sunday Ticket package of as many as 14 live broadcasts of league ...
DirecTV is to provide HBO and Cinemax free to new customers for three months. New residential customers who purchase any DirecTV System between February 1, 2002 and March 23, 2002, and subscribe to ...
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 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 ...
Strong subscriber growth at Hughes Electronics’ DirecTV, as well as increased average monthly revenue per subscriber (ARPU), drove up U.S. revenue for the company’s direct broadcast satellite provider ...
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