AT&T’s DirecTV, Dish Receptive to Merger Amid Rise of Streaming

Bloomberg: AT&T’s DirecTV and Dish Network, suffering the steepest subscriber losses in the pay-TV industry, are open to a merger and both companies believe such a deal could pass muster with U.S. regulators. It’s been 17 years since a proposed combination of the two satellite-TV services was shot down by the FCC.