Five years ago this week… AT&T announced it would be offering DirecTV over the top in three different flavors by the end of 2016. These included a cheap, VoD-heavy mobile-first version, and a half-hearted AVoD tier coined DirecTV Preview. At the time, Faultline felt that taking DirecTV OTT marked the beginning of the end for the service, much like Sling TV had signaled the same for Dish Network. To this day, AT&T is still struggling to sell off its flailing satellite arm. — It just so happens, five years later, that AT&T is reportedly close to selling a “large minority” stake in its pay TV business to private equity firm TPG, according to CNBC. As well as the DirecTV…