The Global Media Business Weekly

Disney and Fox agree $71.3bn deal

Broadcast-streaming. Following Comcast’s withdrawal, both sets of shareholders approved Disney’s $71.3bn offer for Fox’s asset sale. Now, Comcast is expected to get the European Sky TV network (39% owned by Fox) in what just might, in the end, have been a cosy stitch-up. But what will the Murdoch family do next with News Corp, the Fox News and Fox Sports operations they retain, and anything else?

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