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The NFL Could Dismantle AT&T's $49 Billion Purchase Of DirecTV
businessinsider.com ^
| May 19, 2014, 9:56 AM
| Steve Kovach
Posted on 05/19/2014 11:12:21 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The NFL could dismantle AT&T's $48.5 billion purchase of DirecTV.
According to a clause in a regulatory filing for the purchase, AT&T has the right to walk away from the deal if DirecTV can't renew its agreement with the NFL
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: attdirectv; hitech; nfl
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:18:28 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Hillary may have brain damage, but what difference does it make?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I don’t see this as a good thing.
To: TexasCajun
Don’t place any cash bets on this falling through. No way the NFL is going to turn off all those DirectTV viewers.
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:27:42 AM PDT
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: TexasCajun
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Only reason I have DirecTV...
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:29:17 AM PDT
by
Common Sense 101
(Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
To: Common Sense 101
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:31:42 AM PDT
by
Mustard
(tt)
To: Common Sense 101
Me as well, I will go to where ever the NFL lands......I have a TV for the NFL and Special Report ...other than that there is no need.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I love me some DirecTV, but I would never pay a penny extra to watch Goodell’s pussified NFLPC....
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:34:03 AM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(#Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Nice, we referred to our “mother ship” in san Antonio and then Dallas as the Death Star. Then I retired, still call it the death star
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Corporations are becoming too big and powerful. They are just another big Government that will oppress.
To: X-spurt
No way the NFL is going to turn off all those DirectTV viewers.
A big chunk of those DirecTV viewers are there because NFL Sunday Ticket is there. If the NFL walks away, it won't be the NFL's loss - it'll be DirecTV's, and AT&T knows it.
So now we're down to the NFL preventing mergers which will reduce free-market competition.
To: TexasCajun
I want Direct TV plus the fast internet for less than I am paying now for FIOS Triple play....
To: Common Sense 101
Me too, bud. I loathe ATT.
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:36:36 AM PDT
by
Mathews
(Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
To: RIghtwardHo
It’s the Government-Business Complex.
Anti-Trust laws, what are those?
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:36:45 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
According to a clause in a regulatory filing for the purchase, AT&T has the right to walk away from the deal if DirecTV can't renew its agreement with the NFL PFL
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:40:10 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: AnotherUnixGeek
This merger isn’t nearly as anti-competition as the Comcast/NBCU/Time-Warner leviathan. Comcast will have unprecedented control over delivery, pricing and content, all while delivering the industry’s absolute worst customer service and technical competence.
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:43:14 AM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(#Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Hi, I'm Pajama Boy from AT&T U-verse Tier Two Member Care.
How may I provide you with excellent service today?"
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:48:01 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Hillary may have brain damage, but what difference does it make?)
To: Jeff Chandler
"And please don't call back.
You'll killing my metrics."
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:50:00 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Hillary may have brain damage, but what difference does it make?)
To: Jeff Chandler
That’s what we in the industry have been calling them since they came oit with that logo.
Interestingly, Cable &Wireless copied The Death Star for a while and now has a policy of simply spelling out the words.
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posted on
05/19/2014 11:57:38 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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