Murdoch vill konsolidera tv-jättarna Fox och Sky
Amerikanska tv-jätten 21st Century Fox har lagt ett bud om att köpa resterande andelar i Sky – ett bud som värderar det europeiska bolaget till 215 miljarder kronor. Därmed skulle Rupert Murdochs tv-imperium konsolideras över två kontinenter.
Fredagens nyhet rör ett preliminärt bud som har bearbetats av de båda bolagen under helgen, skriver Bloomberg. En knäckfråga för Fox är om man ska lägga ett regelrätt bud eller inte.
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21st Century Fox
Wikipedia (en)
Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. (stylized as 21st Century Fox and simply known as Fox) is an American multinational mass media corporation. It was one of two companies formed from the 2013 spin-off of the publishing assets of News Corporation, as founded by Rupert Murdoch in 1979; 21st Century Fox is the legal successor to News Corporation, and primarily deals in the film and television industries. It is currently the world's fourth largest media conglomerate mass media (after Comcast, The Walt Disney Company and Time Warner).The other company, the "new" News Corporation, holds Murdoch's print interests (both owned by him and his family via a family trust).
Its assets include the Fox Entertainment Group—owners of the 20th Century Fox film studio and Fox television network among other assets, pan-Asian pay channel operator STAR TV, and a stake in European pay TV company Sky plc. On 9 December 2016 it announced a bid for the remainder of Sky Plc.
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Sky plc
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Sky plc is a British satellite broadcasting, on-demand internet streaming media, broadband and telephone services company with headquarters in London. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy. Sky is Europe's biggest and leading media company and largest pay-TV broadcaster, with 21 million subscribers and 30,000 employees as of 2015.
Initially formed in 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, BSkyB became the UK's largest digital subscription television company. In 2014, after completing the acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland, the merged company changed its name to Sky plc. Sky is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It had a market capitalisation of approximately £18.75 billion (€26.76 billion) as of 2015. Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox owns a 39.14 per cent controlling stake in the company.
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