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Teh One Who Knocks
12-14-2017, 12:33 PM
FOX News


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Disney has reached a deal to acquire key assets of Fox News parent company 21st Century Fox in a $52.4 billion deal, officials announced Thursday.

The deal gives Disney 21st Century Fox’s film and television studios, cable entertainment networks and international TV businesses. The deal does not include Fox News Channel, which would reportedly become the centerpiece of a smaller media company run by the Murdoch family and tightly focused on news and sports.

The companies had been working on a deal for several weeks, although there were reports 21st Century Fox had other suitors, including Comcast and Sony.

Disney will reportedly pay as much as $29 a share for Fox assets, including the 20th Century Fox movie and TV studio, cable networks including regional sports networks, and key international assets, they said. It is expected to be an all-stock transaction and Disney would assume some Fox debt.

Most of the assets Disney is buying would be put to use in Chief Executive Robert Iger's quest to transform his company into a streaming-video giant that can go head-to-head with rivals such as Netflix Inc. He wants Disney to have its own relationships with consumers and a broad array of content to offer them online.

Goofy
12-14-2017, 12:57 PM
Are they paying in cash? :-k

PorkChopSandwiches
12-14-2017, 05:15 PM
apparently they will be trying to compete with Netflix

Muddy
12-14-2017, 05:23 PM
I wonder what this does to Fox news?

Teh One Who Knocks
12-14-2017, 05:29 PM
I wonder what this does to Fox news?

:facepalm:


The deal does not include Fox News Channel, which would reportedly become the centerpiece of a smaller media company run by the Murdoch family and tightly focused on news and sports.

Hal-9000
12-14-2017, 05:30 PM
Disney is becoming the friggin Borg

They own song rights, Star Wars rights and a ton of other crap.

And some theme parks.

Muddy
12-14-2017, 05:37 PM
:facepalm:

Thank you!

Teh One Who Knocks
12-14-2017, 06:01 PM
Disney is becoming the friggin Borg

They own song rights, Star Wars rights and a ton of other crap.

And some theme parks.

This will put them on top I think. Disney was the 2nd biggest broadcasting company and 21st Century Fox was the 4th biggest before the merger.

Teh One Who Knocks
12-14-2017, 06:01 PM
Thank you!

There were like 4 fucking sentences in the whole article :slap:

Muddy
12-14-2017, 06:16 PM
I never noticed... :dance:

DemonGeminiX
12-14-2017, 06:26 PM
So I guess that they're getting Marvel's mutants and can start including them in with the rest of the Marvel properties.

Godfather
12-14-2017, 09:35 PM
How many parent companies are there left in the world if you chase it right up the ladder, five?

deebakes
12-17-2017, 02:58 AM
:(