Private equity firm TPG completed its $7.6 billion purchase of the 70% stake it didn't already hold in DirecTV from AT&T. Why ...

The satellite TV giant, which is now fully owned by the private equity firm, expects to increase its investments in video ...

DirecTV, the satellite TV and streaming provider, is now under new corporate ownership. AT&T has finished selling its stake ...

DirecTV is now a stand-alone company. After a disastrous six-year foray into satellite TV, AT&T is spinning off the company for $7.1 billion in cash.

When AT&T bought DirecTV, the satellite service had 20.3 million US customers, and AT&T’s own U-verse cable system had another 5.7 million, for a total of 26 million.

AT&T bought DirecTV for $49 billion ($67 billion including debt) in July 2015 even though DirecTV and other traditional TV services were already losing subscribers in the face of competition from ...

AT&T announced earlier this year that it would spin its video properties DirecTV, AT&T TV, and U-verse into a new company it would co-manage with private equity firm TPG Capital. That transaction ...

AT&T's DirecTV has lost 4 million customers in two years. Cost-cutting and big decisions loom, including whether to pay to keep exclusive rights to NFL Sunday Ticket.

AT&T and DirecTV's $49 billion merger could have broad implications for your TV service, impacting how and where you watch your favorite programs -- including the NFL.

DirecTV has lost about 2 million customers during that span, and “the continued subscriber losses, coupled with outside calls for change, “will force AT&T to take some action,” Swann says.

Talks between AT&T and DirecTV were reported last month, and stepped-up discussions and AT&T's willingness to pay a premium, about $50 billion, to consummate the deal came to light Monday.

Priming itself for the age of internet-delivered video, AT&T said that it would buy DIRECTV for $48.5 billion in cash and stock, or $95 per share.