Disney Prevails In Hunt For Fox As Comcast Drops Bid
Disney is poised to take over most of the entertainment assets of 21st Century Fox. The new mega-studio is to compete with streaming giants Netflix and Amazon. A fight still looms over Sky.
by David Folkenflik
Jul 19, 2018
3 minutes
It has been an epic clash of media titans worthy of a blockbuster movie itself like, say, the X-Men â notably a property of 21st Century Fox. And as with any blockbuster franchise, there are already sequels lined up.
The broadband, cable and entertainment giant Comcast announced Thursday that it would withdraw from the field, conceding defeat in its audacious bidding war for most of the entertainment assets of Fox, controlled by the Murdoch family.
That leaves the entertainment behemoth as the victor, a status expected to be
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