US satellite TV provider DirecTV has terminated its agreement to acquire Echostar’s satellite television business, which includes rival Dish TV.
The deal would have created one of the largest pay TV distributors in the United States, with a combined 20 million subscribers.
For the deal to go through, Dish bondholders had to agree to exchange their debt for new debt in the merged entity at a discounted rate, taking a “haircut” of about $1.57 billion on the debt.
As part of the transaction, DirecTV was to pay $1 to buy the pay TV business called Dish DBS, including Dish and Sling TV, with
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