DirecTV is only paying one dollar for Dish in a major merger of shrinking pay-TV giants
DirecTV has today announced that it will acquire Dish for just $1. Or, more accurately, $1 plus a mountainous backlog of debt. Since the mid-2010s, both pay-TV services have been rapidly shedding subscribers in the midst of the streaming wars as people turn to services like Netflix and Amazon Prime for their television fix.