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M&A
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Comcast ups Sky bid to £26bn as bidding war continues
Comcast has raised its cash offer for Sky to £26 billion ($34 billion) after Fox’s…
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21st Century Fox ups Sky bid to £24.5bn
Twenty-first Century Fox has increased its offer for Sky to £24.5 billion (€27.7 billion), outbidding…
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Comcast lines up buyers for Fox sports assets
Comcast is lining up potential buyers for 21st Century Fox regional sports networks (RSNs) in…
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Sky bid heats up for Fox, Comcast
21st Century Fox is expected to receive a green light from culture secretary Matt Hancock to…
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John Stankey predicts ‘tough year ahead’ for HBO
John Stankey, the new overseer of HBO post-AT&T merger, has predicted a difficult year ahead…
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US broadcast M&A reaches $5.11bn for 2018
US broadcast station mergers and acquisitions (M&A) raised $5.11 billion in the second quarter of…
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BBC & C4 plan £500m to bid for UKTV
The BBC is in talks with Channel 4 (C4) to make a £500 million ($657…
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Fox sets shareholder meeting to asses Disney offer
21st Century Fox has called a special meeting of stockholders on July 27 to vote on…
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US Justice Department approves Disney’s $71.3bn Fox bid
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has approved Disney’s bid for Fox assets, so long…
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Gray TV to buy Raycom Media for $3.65bn
Atlanta-based TV station Gray Television has said that it will buy rival broadcaster Raycom Media…
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TBI Weekly: Disney may win the Fox race
This week, the bidding war between Disney and Comcast for Fox assets got all the…
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Disney’s odds look promising as it ups Fox bid to $71.3bn
Disney has upped its bid for Twenty First Century Fox’s film and television assets to…
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Endemol Shine hires banks for possible $4bn sale
Endemol Shine Group, the production company co-owned by 21st Century Fox and Apollo Global Management,…
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Altice abandons acquisition of Portuguese broadcaster Media Capital
Atlice has abandoned its attempt to acquire the leading Portuguese broadcaster and production group Media…
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Sky independent committee welcomes EC Comcast approval
Sky’s independent committee has welcomed the European Commission’s decision at the end of last week…
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Turner Int’l invests in UK kids edutainment distributor
Turner International’s Digital Ventures & Innovation (DV&I) group has made an equity investment in Bright…
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UK gov’t sets scene for Sky bidding war between Fox and Comcast
The UK government has approved 21st Century Fox’s proposed takeover of Sky on the condition that…
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CBS shareholders launch class action lawsuit against National Amusements
CBS shareholders have officially launched a class action lawsuit against its majority stakeholder National Amusements,…
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TBI Weekly: UK broadcasters band together
As major global entertainment companies increasingly pursue M&A activity to fend off the threat of…
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Comcast prepares all-cash offer for 21st Century Fox
Comcast has confirmed that it is considering making an all-cash offer for the Fox assets…
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Moonves receives Upfronts ovation as Redstone legal battle heats up
CBS chief Leslie Moonves (pictured) received a standing ovation from buyers at its Upfronts presentation…
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Comcast preps Fox offensive with new bid
Comcast isreportedly preparing a new bid for 21st Century Fox. Separately, the US cable and programming…
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Kew Media acquires Essential Quail for $24m
Canada’s Kew Media Group has agreed to acquire Essential Quail Media Group for an initial…
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TBI Weekly: Comcast joins the M&A race
This week, Comcast kicked off a bidding war by formally offering £22bn for Sky and…
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Comcast makes rival £22bn cash bid for Sky
Comcast has made a firm cash offer for Sky that values the pay TV operator…
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DLT Entertainment acquires indie prodco Vera
DLT Entertainment has acquired independent production company Vera Productions. The deal will see Vera MD…
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Disney/Fox deal to close by Spring/Summer 2019
Peter Rice, president of 21st Century Fox, has told staffers that the merger between Fox…
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UK regulator says Disney must buy Sky under Fox deal
Disney will be required to make a mandatory offer for all of Sky after completing its…
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Fox looks to sell Sky News to Disney
Twenty-First Century Fox has proposed selling Sky News to Disney on completion of its buyout…
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CBS to make below-market bid for Viacom
CBS is set to make an all-stock offer for Viacom that prices the US company…