Close the transaction to separate the U.S. video business into New DIRECTV
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 25 Feb 2021
- Due
- 31 Dec 2021
- Delivered
- 31 Jul 2021
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“When the transaction closes, which is expected in the second half of 2021, AT&T expects to receive from New DIRECTV $7.8 billion”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
AT&T successfully closed the transaction to separate its U.S. video business into the new DIRECTV entity on July 31, 2021, which falls within the second half of 2021.
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A At&T Inc. 10-K filed 2022-02-16
“On July 31, 2021, we closed our transaction with TPG to form a new company named DIRECTV” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +0.7% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (15 Feb 2022 to 18 Feb 2022). What this measures
Checked 2 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- New DIRECTV entity
- Where
- U.S.
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to customary closing conditions; subject to regulatory reviews
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Counterparty
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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