Will DIRECTV & EchoStar Merge?

WILL DIRECTV & ECHOSTAR MERGE?
[SOURCE: TVPredictions, AUTHOR: Phillip Swann]
[Commentary] Satellite operators DIRECTV and EchoStar will soon announce a merger. A deal joining the nation's top satellite TV services has been speculated about for months. However, the rumors have suddenly escalated in the last few weeks with reports coming from last week's Allen & Co. media and technology conference in Idaho. "I think if there's any prospect for (a DIRECTV-EchoStar) deal at all ... it almost certainly has to be in a Republican administration," Craig Moffett, a media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., told Reuters.
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