Dish Network is hoping to win over rural and small-town Americans with its satellite-based TV service — and it is calling out DirecTV as part of a new marketing campaign.

While those payments are on hold, EchoStar, which Dish Network rejoined last year, is still investing in its TV business. It commissioned a new communications satellite for television, Maxar Space ...

DirecTV is available to stream via devices like Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, or the company’s Gemini device. Between satellite and streaming, DirecTV is believed to currently have around ...

Even the major satellite services are starting to distance themselves from satellite TV. According to Variety, DirecTV is “experimenting” in some zip codes by only offering new customers ...