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Comcast and Disney: rival suitors for Sky
Comcast this week came good on its promise of a bid for Sky, throwing a…
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Comcast makes £22bn cash bid for Sky
Comcast has made a firm cash offer for Sky that values the pay TV operator…
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Sky overtakes P&G as UK’s biggest traditional advertising spender
Pay TV operator Sky has overtaken Procter & Gamble as the biggest spender on traditional…
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Sky sells 20% stake in Sky Betting & Gaming
Sky has agreed to sell its 20% stake in the online betting and gaming business,…
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Netflix: another stellar quarter in an evolving competitive landscape
Netflix delivered a stellar set of quarterly results this week, growing its streaming revenues by…
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Rice: Disney/Fox acquisition to close by summer 2019
Peter Rice, president of 21st Century Fox, has told staff that the merger between Fox and…
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Bigger media: Fox, Sky, Vivendi
21st Century Fox has now proposed a possible sale of Sky News to Disney as…
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21st Century Fox proposes Sky News sale to Disney
Twenty-First Century Fox has proposed selling Sky News to Disney on completion of its buyout…
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Mediaset combines pay TV activity with Sky in wide-ranging deal
Mediaset has struck a wide-ranging pay TV deal with Sky that puts a likely end…
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Sky Italia to launch fibre offering
Sky Italia has struck a long-term deal to launch a fibre-only broadband service from next…
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Macquarie outlines scenarios for Sky, Comcast, Disney and Fox
Analysts at infrastructure investment group Macquarie have outlined four scenarios for Sky following Comcast’s announcement…
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Murdoch outfoxed by Comcast Sky bid
Stuart Thomson looks at the likely fallout from Comcast’s audacious bid to take over Sky….
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Sky to add Netflix to new pay TV pack
Sky is to bundle subscription video-on-demand service Netflix as part of a new Sky pay…
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Now TV Smart Stick goes on sale
Sky’s new Roku-powered Now TV Smart Stick has gone on sale in the UK, priced…
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English Premier League: Sky, BT and the Amazon question
Stuart Thomson looks at the implications of this week’s Premier League rights award to Sky…
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21st Century Fox promises independent board for Sky News
21st Century Fox has promised a fully-independent board for Sky News and insulation of the…
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Fox still confident of Sky approval
21st Century Fox remains confident that it will secure regulatory approval for its acquisition of…
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Spain’s Mediapro takes Italy’s Serie A rights from Sky and Mediaset
Spanish broadcaster Mediapro has secured the rights to Italian top-tier football from under the noses…
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Sky to launch all-IP offering in Italy this April
Sky is due to launch an all-IP version of its service for the first time…
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Sky moves into original films in latest content push
Sky has announced plans to commission and acquire exclusive rights to original films, in its…
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Sky unveils Now TV Smart Stick
Sky has unveiled a new Now TV streaming device, the Now TV Smart Stick, which…
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Fox’s takeover of Sky ‘not in the public interest’
21st Century Fox’s second attempt to buy up UK satellite TV operator Sky has been…
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Berenberg analysts: two views on Amazon Premier League bid
Amazon is likely to win at least one package of English Premier League rights in…
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Sky selects Jaunt to power VR app
Sky’s VR Studio has selected Jaunt’s XR Platform to deliver virtual reality content to consumers…
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BT strikes deal with Sky for Now TV and sports
BT has agreed a deal to sell Sky’s low-cost OTT TV service Now TV to…
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Mouse catches Fox: how Disney-Fox might look
While AT&T’s US$85 billion acquisition of Time Warner is the biggest media deal in purely…
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Soccer’s biggest battle
Mike Darcey assesses how vulnerable Sky is to a bid for Premier League rights from…
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Cinemax copro among new Sky originals
UK pay TV service Sky is working up a London-set gangster thriller as a coproduction…
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Sky rubbishes BBC’s ‘bizarre’ SVOD concerns
Sky’s content chief, Gary Davey, has slammed the BBC’s “bizarre” concerns over the arrival of…
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Murdoch ‘expects Sky deal approval’ in first half of next year
21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch has said he expects the company’s acquisition of Sky…