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Comcast wins battle for Sky – finally
Broadcast-streaming. Following Comcast winning the Sky TV auction at the weekend with their full-out £30bn bid, 21st Century Fox…
Fresh bets on $75bn Toutiao news app
News. Softbank, KKR and Primavera Capital are variously in talks to invest a total of $1.5bn in Beijing Bytedance…
Endeavour v ITV for Endemol Shine?
Broadcast-streaming. TV production group Endemol Shine is on the block. Rumoured bidders in what could be a $2.5bn auction…
Saban buys Panavision + Sim for SVoD push
Broadcast-streaming. Haim Saban is buying camera equipment specialist Panavision and Sim Video International in a $622m cash and stock…
Meredith gets ‘trophy’ price for Time
Quick read. Eight months after its acquisition of Time Inc., Meredith Corp is selling Time Magazine to Salesforce founder…
Will top 2 Aussie mag groups merge?
Quick read. Australia’s newly-relaxed media ownership laws are likely to permit the country’s two largest magazine publishers to…
Will Australian magazine leaders merge?
Australia’s newly-relaxed media ownership laws are likely to permit the country’s two largest magazine publishers to merge, even…
Fairfax Aussie events up for grabs
Events. The A$4.2bn ‘merger’ of Australia’s Nine Entertainment and Fairfax Media to form the country’s largest media group…
The Wrap subscriptions ‘merger’.
B2B information. The Wrap, the California-based movie and media super-blog, is acquiring a video subscription service which will get…
MidOcean buys Questex
New York City-based private equity firm MidOcean Partners is acquiring, from Shamrock Capital, Questex, the Massachusetts-based B2B exhibition organiser…