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Joe Clayton, Industry Pioneer, Dead At 69
His four-decade career spanned color TV to satellite radio.
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Roku Adds DirecTV Now
Finally! Making good on a promise made at its introduction launch last November, DirecTV Now is available for select Roku devices and TV sets...
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DirecTV Now, Sling Cloud DVR Announcements Take OTT Really Over the Top
The week after Thanksgiving started off the holiday season with a bang, giving those who want over-the-top (OTT) TV services — or those who...
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DirecTV: Live In 4K, It’s Major League Baseball
DirecTV will broadcast live Major League Baseball games for the first time in 4K Ultra HD starting this Friday when the Los Angeles Dodgers...
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AT&T Giving Away Samsung TV With Samsung Phone Purchase
Now it’s AT&T’s turn to give away a free Samsung TV. The company began today to offer a free 48-inch Samsung smart TV to...
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DirecTV To Launch Live 4K Ultra HD Channel On April 4
Ultra HD content will expand beyond streaming services, download services, and Ultra HD Blu-ray discs with the April 4 launch of 4K satellite broadcasts...
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AT&T’s DirecTV To Go Over The Top
DirecTV owner AT&T will launch DirecTV-branded OTT video programming over any fixed-broadband or cellular network to smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, PCs and streaming-media devices,...
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How To Scuttle The Pay-TV Set-Top Box
Many consumers can already dispense with a pay-TV provider’s set-top box (STB), but usually only in second, third or fourth rooms. Here are some...
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DirecTV Preparing For Live 4K Sports Broadcasts
DirecTV is testing Ultra HD 4K transmission of live sports events and plans to launch 4K broadcasts in early 2016, a news report says....
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AT&T Offering 18.4-Inch Samsung View With DirecTV Channels
AT&T will become the first carrier to offer an LTE-equipped version of Samsung’s 18.4-inch 1080p Galaxy View Android tablet, enabling on-the-go viewing of more...
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AT&T: We’ll Lease Phones If Customers Want It
AT&T is open to leasing unsubsidized handsets to supplement its current installment-payment programs, but subscribers are gravitating strongly to the company’s installment payment plans,...
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LG Adds DirecTV Access, More Music Streaming, To Smart TV WebOS
LG is giving its WebOS smart-TV platform an upgrade, as well as expanding its roster of content partners to include 4K and HD streaming...
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Sprint To AT&T: Bundle This!
Sprint went on the offensive to blunt the impact of new AT&T-DirecTV service bundles, offering a free year of service to DirecTV subscribers who...
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DirecTV Extends 4K To More TVs
DirecTV is bringing its Ultra HD 4K content to more TVs with the launch of a paperback-book-size set-top box that connects via coaxial cable...
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AT&T Ups Bounty For DirecTV Users Who Add AT&T Cellular
Dallas – AT&T is leveraging its recent ownership of DirecTV once again with a limited-time promo that offers up to $500 to DirecTV and...
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Cord-Cutting Leaves Mark As Consumers Continue To Flee Pay TV
Pay TV service providers lost 566,000 subscribers in the second quarter, a 76 percent increase from the 321,000 shed in the same period last...
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AT&T Bundles TV, Cellphone Service Nationwide
Dallas — AT&T will become the first U.S. carrier to offer a nationwide bundle of TV and cellphone service following its July 24 acquisition...
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Eli Manning & Tony Romo Are The New Rob Lowe
DirecTV was forced to kill its popular Rob Lowe commercial campaign back in April when the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better...
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FCC Approves AT&T-DirecTV Merger
AT&T’s proposed $48.5 billion acquisition of DirecTV is a step closer to the finish line after the FCC blessed the deal with a host...
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Wheeler Confirms AT&T/DirecTV Approval Order Circulation
Following news reports that the merger of AT&T with DirecTV will be approved, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler confirmed the stories and outlined the key...
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DirecTV Flips 2 Birds Into Orbit
El Segundo, Calif. –DirecTV launched two new satellites to expand capacity for HD and 4K Ultra HD channels in the U.S. and Latin America...
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Dish Targets DirecTV Subscribers In Promotion
Englewood, Colo. – Satellite-TV provider Dish launched a “Dish Challenge” promotion in which it is guaranteeing DirecTV subscribers who switch a savings of $250...
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DirecTV 4K Bird Takes Flight
Following a brief weather-induced delay, an Arianespace rocket containing a new satellite that will help to pave DirecTV’s 4K/Ultra HD future launched successfully Saturday...
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DirecTV To Launch 4K Service Friday
UPDATED! El Segundo, Calif. — DirecTV will launch 4K Ultra HD video on demand for the first time Friday, making it the first multichannel...
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DirecTV Shareholders Support AT&T Merger
El Segundo, Calif. – DirecTV stockholders approved the satellite TV provider’s proposed merger with AT&T Thursday, completing one step on the way to consummation....
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AT&T Agrees To DirecTV Purchase
New York — AT&T formally agreed on Sunday to buy DirecTV for about $48.5 billion. The purchase gives AT&T access to the satellite-TV provider’s...
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DirecTV, Dish Applaud STELA Reauthorization
New York — Satellite-TV rivals DirecTV and Dish joined their voices Wednesday in a statement supporting Congressional efforts to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension...
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Blockbuster, DirecTV Begin Pay-Per-View
EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. — DirecTV and Blockbuster this month began offering their co-branded pay-per-view service, “Blockbuster Ticket only on DirecTV.” The new joint service...
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