Lost DIRECTV Assets

[Gary Toma]

Lost DIRECTV Assets​

10-21-2021

These Assets Were Sold by AT&T in 2021

The cash from the sale of these high profit, high growth potential divisions of Directv was retained by AT&T.
Those assets are no longer a part of DIRECTV.

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Latin The first division of DIRECTV Latin America (DLA) is Panamericana. Entities in this division are Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Uruguay and Venezuela. El Caribe entities are Aruba/Curacao, Barbados, Trinidad/Tobago and Caribe Regional.

DIRECTV Latin America Satellites:
@ 95W: DLA1, DLA2

Archival Information Only - No Longer Maintained

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México SKY-México is part of a second DLA division which includes Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panamá.

DIRECTV SKY Mexico Satellites:
@ 79W: SKY_M1

Archival Information Only - No Longer Maintained

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Brasil SKY-Brasil is a third DLA division but is not presented

DIRECTV SKY Brasil Satellites:
@ 45W: SKY_B1 (IS32)

 

["MysteryMan"]

AT&T, the company that turns gold into lead!

 

[John2021]

AT&T should have never been allowed to buy directv!!! funny now there slowing down on wireless also and there working on there fiber. wich is what they should have done in the first place!!! since fibers where's the $$$ at.

 

[harshness]

AT&T should have never been allowed to buy directv!!!

Who would you have chosen and why didn't they go after it?

As it was (and is again today), DIRECTV was something that its owners were publicly seeking to unload.

Come to think of it, few companies have changed hands so many times as DIRECTV (with the possible exception of someone like Harmon Kardon or Denon).

 

[Bruce]

As it was (and is again today), DIRECTV was something that its owners were publicly seeking to unload.

Except when AT&T bought it, they paid $67 Billion ( including debt).

When the TPG Capital thing happened, it now has a value of $15 Billion ( properly less now since that was two years ago).

And no one still wants to buy it.

from here-

The deal will value the AT&T businesses around at $15 billion. AT&T acquired DirecTV in 2015 for $48.5 billion ($67 billion with debt).

AT&T nears deal with TPG to sell large minority stake in DirecTV, U-verse at $15 billion valuation

AT&T nears deal with TPG to sell large minority stake in DirecTV, U-verse

www.cnbc.com

 

[harshness]

Except when AT&T bought it, they paid $67 Billion ( including debt).

That doesn't answer my question about who the better buyer might have been.

 

[John2021]

Except when AT&T bought it, they paid $67 Billion ( including debt).

When the TPG Capital thing happened, it now has a value of $15 Billion ( properly less now since that was two years ago).

And no one still wants to buy it.

from here-

The deal will value the AT&T businesses around at $15 billion. AT&T acquired DirecTV in 2015 for $48.5 billion ($67 billion with debt).

AT&T nears deal with TPG to sell large minority stake in DirecTV, U-verse at $15 billion valuation

AT&T nears deal with TPG to sell large minority stake in DirecTV, U-verse

www.cnbc.com

So why does att still want 70% control. If it were me ide off load it and stick with fiber since that's where the money's at!!!

 

[Bruce]

So why does att still want 70% control. If it were me ide off load it and stick with fiber since that's where the money's at!!!

Because no one wants the 70%.

 

[harshness]

So why does att still want 70% control. If it were me ide off load it and stick with fiber since that's where the money's at!!!

AT&T owned DIRECTV outright. What they "wanted" shouldn't be confused with what they got.

TPG was only willing to pony up for 30% of the DIRECTV (plus some percentage of the debt) plus control of the company. AT&T sold 100% control of DIRECTV's daily operations to TPG.

 

[lordodogg]

AT&T sold 100% control of DIRECTV's daily operations to TPG.

I guess that's why DirecTV is trying to appeal to the younger folks with stuff like this:

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pkzvTbplv0o