Dish Network sold to DirecTV for just $1 KUTV 2NewsDirecTV agrees to buy Dish for $1 CNNEchoStar to sell Dish to DirecTV, combining major pay-TV providers CNBCDirecTV and Dish have spent years trying to merge. It’s finally happening. Yahoo FinanceAT&T is selling its majority DirecTV stake to private equity firm TPG Partners for $7.6 billion Fortune