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By Cara Lombardo and Drew FitzGerald 

AT&T Inc. received bids for its DirecTV unit valuing the satellite-TV service at more than $15 billion including debt, according to people familiar with the matter, as the widely watched auction winds toward a resolution.

Among those submitting bids above that level was Churchill Capital Corp. IV, a blank-check company run by former banker Michael Klein, the people said. Apollo Global Management Inc., long seen by many as the front-runner to buy DirecTV, submitted a bid valuing the business at less than $15 billion, some of the people said.

The auction is in a late stage and should the company reach a deal with one of the suitors, it could be completed by early next year.

--Miriam Gottfried contributed to this article.

Write to Cara Lombardo at cara.lombardo@wsj.com and Drew FitzGerald at andrew.fitzgerald@wsj.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

December 09, 2020 10:18 ET (15:18 GMT)

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