Chase Carey leaving DirecTV for News Corporation
News Corp. has announced that they are hiring Chase Carey as their new deputy chairman, president and chief operating officer.
He would replace Peter Chernin. His appointment would be applicable from next month.
Carey is currently the CEO of DirecTV.
At News Corp, he would practically be the second most [...]

AT&T to offer DirecTV’s services
US based telecom giant AT&T has announced that they are soon going to start offering DirecTV’s services.
This would enable them to compete against current partner Dish Network.
AT&T would offer DirecTV services as part of their Advanced TV service.
Their contract with Dish Network ends in January next year.
Market analyst [...]

Eddy Hartenstein is the new publisher of Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times has announced that they are naming Eddy Hartenstein as their new publisher.
Eddy Hartenstein is the former head of DirecTV.
He takes over this new position from next week.
Incidentally, he has no previous newspaper industry experience.
He is coming to LA Times at a time [...]

ReplayTV acquired by DirecTV
DirecTV has announced that they have acquired most of the assets of ReplayTV.
The financial aspects of this acquisition deal were not revealed to the media.
ReplayTV was one of the early rivals to the TiVo but struggled to compete against them as they have now become one of the dominating companies in [...]