Looks like It’s official Directv Buying Dish

[John2021]

I'm pretty sure I could call in and get better discounts than the Retiree discount was.

that's what i'm saying!!!

 

[John2021]

DirecTV/Dish merger has a problem as debt holders object to $1.6 billion loss

Debt holders oppose $1.6 billion value reduction, throwing wrench into TV merger.

arstechnica.com

at&t sold there 70% a little over seven billion bucks at a loss. well they deserve it as they have been screwing customers for years.

 

[MikeD-C05]

I was reading this earlier, wonder how this gona really effect customer in the end. long as I continue to get my discounts i been getting to keep the bill low, it wont mater much but if pricing gets worse or can no longer get those discount among many other thing. it might be time to drop em

I think a lot of long time customers will drop them if there is to much change and the prices keep going up each year. This is why people are cutting the cord.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Youth is WASTED on the young!

A line from: It's a Wonderful Life.

 

[MikeD-C05]

DirecTV/Dish merger has a problem as debt holders object to $1.6 billion loss

Debt holders oppose $1.6 billion value reduction, throwing wrench into TV merger.

arstechnica.com

I saw this coming......

 

[Poorsha]

This is a business opportunity! Call 800-333-DISH today for the new Disherect package! Complete with blue pills and a TV package sure to get a rise out of you!

Maybe wait until November for Erection Day.

 

[nelson61]

DirecTV/Dish merger has a problem as debt holders object to $1.6 billion loss

Debt holders oppose $1.6 billion value reduction, throwing wrench into TV merger.

arstechnica.com

They can get a significant amount or all of their money back by taking the deal or let echostar crash and get pennies 5 or 10 years from now.

I'm betting they are trying to get a few more 10's of millions in the settlement and the deal will continue (with some "suits" getting paid big bucks to haggle over the details).

 

[navychop]

They can get a significant amount or all of their money back by taking the deal or let echostar crash and get pennies 5 or 10 years from now.

QFT!

 

[meStevo]

Not exactly something Echostar would be happy to go through either, lets not pretend they aren't motivated to get this done or work with with TPG to make this better for debt holders.

TPG walking away and Charlie's gambles all coming home to roost and taking Echostar with it shouldn't be something anyone who's a fan of the service should be rooting for I'd think.

 

[EarDemon]

I have a Lincoln and a Ford but still get separate billing.

While I hate to continue the Sirius XM billing sub discussion, you should have no problem combining bills.

As soon as they started combining lineups and later on billing, I was able to combine my accounts with ease. I had two subscriptions of each since very early on in each companies respective existence. Sirius at both home and in the car and XM at both home and in the car with plug and play units. And then I went down to one subscription of each on a combined bill. XM at home since it was built into my (new at the time) Sony A/V Receiver and Sirius in my car on my Navigator. Then later I had an Expedition on there.

So it was the following on one bill at one point:

2013 Navigator – Sirius
2014 Expedition – Sirius
Sony AVR – XM

The 2014 Expedition was traded for a 2019 and never activated. My Navigator was traded for my 2023 Bronco 4 door which I had for a whole 5 months before I got rid of it and I upgraded the AVR and the new one doesn’t have built in SiriusXM. The Bronco with Sync 4 had all of the Extra channels, basically everything in the app was on the car radio, but it was using the built in cellular modem obviously, which was powered by AT&T, so if there was no or poor AT&T coverage you just had the normal satellite channels.

I replaced the Bronco with a 2021 Expedition Limited that was upgraded to where it is pretty much a Platinum minus the massaging seats, 22 speaker audio system and fancier front grille. But it has Sync 3, the 2022 mid-cycle refresh got the 15” touch screen and Sync 4 and the upgraded SXM experience. I can tune to up to channel 460 on the Expedition.

What was cool was I got the free three month for each the Bronco and 2021 Expedition and then 3 more months for a $1. So I got 1 year of service for $2 and I only had to by $120K worth of SUVs to get that deal

If you are having trouble combining accounts, I wonder if one car has a Sirius radio and one is SiriusXM and they are having problems combining them because of that. I'm not 100% sure and I could be wrong, but I thought it loosely corelated to the infotainment system. Sync 1 and Sync 2 were Sirius only and Sync 3 and 4 are SiriusXM. If both of your cars are on the same version of Ford Sync that is really baffling why they can't combine them.

 

[nelson61]

While I hate to continue the Sirius XM billing sub discussion, you should have no problem combining bills

SiriusXM Satellite Radio

This is your place to discuss Satellite Radio Services and equipment from SiriusXM

www.satelliteguys.us

 

[HipKat]

A huge number of us are wishing we were retired.

And some of us believe we'll never get to retire

 

[HipKat]

I wonder about the Bally RSN carriage agreements? DirectTV was one of the few that still had Bally on their system. It would be nice to get that back...

Cubs fans in Illinois would be DAMN glad to have it back

 

[HipKat]

I think a lot of long time customers will drop them if there is to much change and the prices keep going up each year. This is why people are cutting the cord.

I told my crew in our meetings my biggest fear is absorbed Dish customers being stuck with DTV's billing

 

[nelson61]

Bloomberg

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Bondholders are demanding new covenants that would protect them if the deal is rejected by regulators. If it goes ahead, they’re seeking safeguards against downside earnings, operational risks and aggressive debt maneuvers, said the people.

Those who support the restructuring point out that Dish is providing a coupon bump to consenting lenders and a premium to market trading levels before the deal was announced. The combined entity will also carry less debt, have higher ratings and generate more cash, according to these people who also declined to be identified because the discussions are private.
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[Almighty1]

The downside of retirement is old age - myself included.

Saw this the other day:

 

[Almighty1]

They use to eliminate a Title and create a new Title and pay them less

Sounds like banks, a bunch of Vice Presidents and even Assistant Vice Presidents including the Branch Manager. Only thing is they are Vice President's at the branch level, not even the city or the Corporate level and still get paid the same which is lower than working elsewhere. The title only makes them feel more important.

 

[Almighty1]

Didn't SBC buy back most of the baby bells when it became ATT?

I supposed they did except maybe what was Qwest, Bell Atlantic, GTE/Contel and probably a few others. Similar to one sibling buying all the other siblings out and eventually taking over the parent.

 

[Almighty1]

They are currently at&t, Not AT&T ....

Their new logo maybe lower case but what's important is this which is from 3 days ago when they filed their FORM 8-K with the U.S. SEC as a publically traded company.... They are no longer American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

and from the horse's own mouth at Investor Profile , they are "AT&T" not at&t.

 

[Almighty1]

at&t sold there 70% a little over seven billion bucks at a loss. well they deserve it as they have been screwing customers for years.

AT&T was never successful in the Pay TV market as first, they bought Telecommunications Inc (TCI) which was known as AT&T Broadband Inc. (ATTBI) which later was sold to Comcast. Then ofcourse they had U-Verse and later Directv. They couldn't even build a Internet Backbone properly known as AT&T WorldNet, ip.att.net as that didn't exist until 1994 and was built for them by BBN (Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc.) which basically used BBNPlanet's backbone for anything it can't reach and BBNPlanet used InternetMCI for anything else it can't reach. MCI and Sprint were the 2 out of Big 3 Tier 1 Internet Backbones with the 3rd being UUNet Technologoes (Alter.net).

[Newsbytes] Story

U-Verse and Directv is the SBC acquired AT&T while the others are the original AT&T Corporation aka Ma Bell. The quality AT&T Internet Tier 1 backbones are known as AT&T GNS (Global Network Solutions) which was IBM Global Network Services that the original AT&T bought known as prserv.net and AT&T ENS (Emerging Network Solutions) which was known as CERFNet (California Educational and Research Foundation Network) that was original a NSFNet (National Science Foundation) regional network based at the San Diego SuperComputing Center as attens.com which was also bought as the original AT&T. I didn't become a AT&T Inc. shareholder by choice, I originally had AOL(America Online) Inc. shares which became AOL-Time Warner and basically it spin-off into Time and Time Warner, Time Warner Telecom, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros-Discovery and everything other than Warner Bros-Discovery became AT&T and Charter shares. Back in the 1990s, only Time Warner had a Internet Backbone known as Roadrunner or rr.com while ATTBI, Charter, Cox and everyone else, they all used @Home's Internet Network which later became Excite@Home after Excite the search engine company merged with @Home Inc., only thing was Excite@Home went under and then pulled the plug on everyone so all the customers of everything except Time Warner's Road Runner had no internet because Excite@Home pulled the plug.

The $7 Billion Delusion

Excite@Home promised to merge the search geeks and the cablecos to become the AOL of broadband. Then the tragedy of reality set in. Some deals are hatched under a bad sign. Three years ago, Excite, the troubled yet promising Web portal, merged with @Home, the promising yet troubled high-speed...

www.wired.com

And let's remember that the current AT&T never owned AT&T Bell Laboratories which was spined off as Lucent Technologies.

Even when SBC became AT&T Inc, it was still using Northern Telecom (Nortel) while GTE was using Lucent 5ESS switches.