It's Official: News Corp to Buy DirecTV

Guppy06 writes "According to this Washington Post article, the heads at both News Corporation (owners of Fox) and DirecTV have agreed to a $6.6 billion deal to secure the purchase of DirecTV by News, with GM getting a little less than half of that total in cash. All that remains now is the actual exchange. For the record, EchoStar was going to pay $30 billion before the FCC shot them down."

No, they withdrew

[PhilHibbs]

http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?na tive_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6513398631 [fcc.gov]

The hell with Directv

[Joshuah]

I had Telocity DSL. GREAT SERVICE! then Directv buys them to make Directv DSL. I had that service until i had to move, and with 1 month left on the contract, they said i had to pay a $150 early cancel fee, i even offered to just pay the last month, no deal. so, after being kinda pissed about that, i move, find out that directvdsl is the best service i can get, i give them a call up and they give me $40/mo. static ip 1.5/256 connection for 12 months to make up for the $150 they robbed me.

well, that lasted an entire month before the division shut down!

directv does have great sport packages, but no G4 channel, no Fox news, no Cricket. The only thing i like about directv's service now is their menu system. i sure hope that selling the company means that i can break my contract to go with someone else now...

Goodbye HDTV on DirecTV

[1337_h4x0r]

Murdoch is famously against HDTV, so I think this is the kiss of death for HDTV on DirecTV. Which is too bad, I've enjoyed High Definition on DTV for over a year. Wonder how cheap I can pick up some Dish Network hardware..

Re:For us non-usians

[ItaliaMatt]

O.K. - for the people who aren't in the states here is the breakdown: There are 5 major and 1 minor (based on Nielsen ratings) television news outlets in the states. This is in no particular order of importance, preference, or popularity.... 1. American Broadcasting Company - ABC - Owned by the Disney Corporation 2. National Broadcasting Company - NBC - Owned by General Electric 3. CBS - Owned by Viacom 4. Cable News Network - CNN - Owned by AOL Time Warner 5. Fox News - Owned by News Corporation The one minor player is the Public Broadcasting Service and is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the annual support of viewers like you. Thank you. ;)

Re:Originally, Murdoch offered more $$$

[nelsonal]

They will have enough interest to have decision making privledges over the company. Echostar was only going to buy roughly this stake as well.

Re:Murdoch-ing the world

[Dunark]

AFAIK, Murdoch's Fox News is the only news outlet ever to win a lawsuit by insisting they are under no obligation to report truthfully. Try a Google search for "fox news lawsuit jane monsanto" for more info.

Here are the real stats

[Joe the Lesser]

Here's a unbiased report on the civilian casualties [iraqbodycount.net]

More likely there are more deaths that can't be reported, and not to mention the tens of thousands of Iraqis defending their homes with WWII style guns, but who cares about them right?

Saddam wasn't a mass murderer when it came to his own people excluding the Kurds after the first gulf war of course, but then you don't have the facts, and really, neither do I, on how bad he was.