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AT&T to acquire DirecTV
« on: May 18, 2014, 06:21:10 PM »
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/18/news/companies/att-directv/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

First the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger plan, now this?  :blink:
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Re: AT&T to acquire DirecTV
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2014, 07:16:00 PM »
I tell you, all these mergers or buying out between companies lately seems to be getting out of hand.  Pretty soon there's just going to be one big "mega company" that handles it all. :rolleyes:

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Re: AT&T to acquire DirecTV
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2014, 06:26:37 PM »
  Pretty soon there's just going to be one big "mega company" that handles it all. :rolleyes:
Do you know for sure if that's going to happen?
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Re: AT&T to acquire DirecTV
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2014, 09:49:13 PM »
I tell you, all these mergers or buying out between companies lately seems to be getting out of hand.

This is like putting Ma Bell back together times two.  Assuming they do this, I wonder how long it will be before they gobble up Dish too.

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Re: AT&T to acquire DirecTV
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2014, 11:22:11 PM »
  Pretty soon there's just going to be one big "mega company" that handles it all. :rolleyes:
Do you know for sure if that's going to happen?

I was being sarcastic. ;)  However, with all these mergers happening recently, who knows?

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Re: AT&T to acquire DirecTV
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Re: AT&T to acquire DirecTV
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2015, 09:19:48 PM »
This is like putting Ma Bell back together times two.

[W]ith all these mergers happening recently, who knows?

Read it and weep.  It still applies.  My prediction is that they'll retire the DirecTV brand and start calling it UVerse Satellite or something to that effect.

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Re: AT&T to acquire DirecTV
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2015, 09:40:32 AM »
I hope this means the return of NHL Network to U-verse.

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Re: AT&T to acquire DirecTV
« Reply #8 on: September 16, 2015, 06:56:45 PM »
I heard about this on Monday.
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Re: AT&T to acquire DirecTV
« Reply #9 on: September 16, 2015, 11:00:17 PM »
I heard about this on Monday.
Unfortunately the merge is complete, and had been for about a month now.
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