Struggling DirecTV loses another top executive as Dan York leaves

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

Struggling DirecTV is experiencing another noteworthy defection: Dan York, one of the highest-ranking AT&T executives based in El Segundo, is leaving the company after two decades.

AT&T on Thursday confirmed York’s planned March 1 exit.

York has been one of the most powerful executives in television, serving as executive vice president and chief content officer for DirecTV since 2012. He has managed DirecTV’s original programming and distribution efforts, including its marquee attraction, the NFL Sunday Ticket.

The 56-year-old Michigan native also was responsible for DirecTV’s Audience Network, which previously produced original shows, including “Loudermilk” and “Undeniable With Dan Patrick.”

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-02-13/directv-att-dan-york-resigns

AT&T has announced that Dan York is leaving Directv.

 

[Don CT]

Since they are killing off original content it's no surprise that he is leaving.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...t-as-warner-bros-communications-chief-1280771

Dee Dee Myers leaves Warner Brothers Management nearly 1 week after Dan York Leaves the outlet.

 

[Kelly A]

At&T would mess up a wet dream. Typical attitude: Wall St. expects us to grow, so let's get into the content delivery business by buying what amounts to a satellite cable provider. We already own much of the public Internet, so why not own the skies too? Then, characteristically, AT&T fires all the DirecTV sales, support, and back office staff, merging it into their wireless sales and support division. Those divisions don't know what to do with it, yet bean counters continue cutting costs everywhere in sight. Now DirecTV has become a shell of it's former self, and AT&T cries because it's losing money? No sympathy from this guy.

 

[anotherguyTN]

There is more talk that DIrecTV could eventually merge with Dish: https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/dish-thinks-that-dish-directv-should-merge/

I still won't subscribe to either of them separately or together.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/245316/atts-new-streamer-debuts-today/


AT&T starts AT&T-TV today.

 

[KeithE4]

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/245316/atts-new-streamer-debuts-today/
AT&T starts AT&T-TV today.

By itself, AT&T TV starts at $50 a month for a year with a two-year contract. As with many traditional TV services, the promo rate expires after a year. Some packages also come with a $8.50 fee for regional sports.

AT&T just doesn't get it, do they? Contracts are dying. I don't have one for YouTube TV, and most if not all of the cellphone services have dropped them.

 

[KeithE4]

There is more talk that DIrecTV could eventually merge with Dish: https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/dish-thinks-that-dish-directv-should-merge/

I still won't subscribe to either of them separately or together.

I dropped DirecTV a month and a half ago, and my contempt for Dish goes back to the mid '90s when my employer at the time supplied custom satellite modems to them (our parent company was an investor in EchoStar, who owned Dish at the time). They had no clue what they really wanted, and couldn't make up their minds.

Neither company will get my money. DirecTV even admitted when I cancelled that they knew satellite TV is on its last legs. It'll be gone in 10 years or when the last satellite dies, whichever comes first.