{"id":85711,"date":"2018-07-12T20:17:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T20:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/fox-gets-green-light-from-uk-for-sky-takeover\/"},"modified":"2018-07-12T20:17:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T20:17:31","slug":"fox-gets-green-light-from-uk-for-sky-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/fox-gets-green-light-from-uk-for-sky-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox gets green light from UK for Sky takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Rupert Murdochs 21st Century Fox was on Thursday cleared to buy the broadcaster Sky after the U.K. government said it wouldnt block a deal.<\/p>\n<p>Acquisition negotiations, which began in 2016, were stalled by the British government because of regulatory concerns about Murdoch owning too much of the British media market \u2014 21st Century Fox already owns 39.1 percent of Sky.<\/p>\n<p>However, a breakthrough in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/pro\/comcast-counters-latest-fox-bid-for-sky-with-26-billion-offer\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> the bidding war<\/a> for Sky between Fox and Comcast came Thursday when new British Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/written-ministerial-statement-media-matters?utm_source=28176e2e-2064-4980-beac-894b5bb3167f&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_content=immediate\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a> he agreed with a regulatory boards finding that Foxs planned sale of Sky News to Disney, or another buyer, would remove any regulatory concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast had already been given U.K. approval to proceed with its pursuit of Sky and on Wednesday had offered \u00a314.75 per share, thus valuing the company at a total of \u00a326 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition battle for Sky is part of a larger race between Comcast and Disney, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/fox-gets-u-k-approval-to-buy-sky-amid-bidding-war-with-comcast-1531393148?mod=djemalertNEWS\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/a> Disney offered $71.3 billion for a number of major Fox assets, including the existing 39.1 percent share of Sky, beating a rival bid from Comcast.<\/p>\n<h2><em>Read this next: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-publishes-brexit-white-paper\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">UK publishes Brexit white paper<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/fox-gets-green-light-from-uk-for-sky-takeover\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p> [contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/> <\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/&gt;Politico&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/h5&gt;_&lt;\/p&gt;[contfnewc]_[contfnewc]_&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Rupert Murdochs 21st Century Fox was on Thursday cl..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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