Disney-Fox Deal News Roundup: Everything You Need to Know About the M&E Megadeal (UPDATED)
The effect on sports television is expected to be transformative and world-wide
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This morning, Disney made the worst-kept secret in the media industry official: it announced a definitive agreement to acquire a majority of 21st Century Fox assets. The move that will reshape the sports-TV landscape around the globe and covers 22 Fox Sports Regional Networks, Sky’s pan-European operations (prior to the deal, 21st Century Fox is expected to seek to complete its planned acquisition of the 61% of Sky it doesn’t already own), Star India, and Tata Sky. The deal does not include the Big Ten Network, FS1, or FS2. With a story this big, there’s a lot of information to digest, so SVG has compiled a rundown of reports from around the web regarding ramifications of the deal — especially on the sports sector.
- Disney’s Fox Deal Means ESPN Is Going To Double Down on Big, Expensive Sports TV Deals (Recode)
- Understanding the Industry Fallout from Disney’s Fox Purchase: Disney Makes Big Bets on Legacy Media, Will Be a More Aggressive Bidder on Sports Rights (BTIG)
- Disney-Fox Deal Gives ESPN a Local Strategy To Combat Its Financial Woes (Washington Post)
- Disney Buying Fox Makes the Sports Media Market Even More Chaotic (The Street)
- Disney Makes $52.4 Billion Deal for 21st Century Fox in Big Bet on Streaming (New York Times)
- Disney-Fox Deal: 10 Burning Questions (Variety)
- Massive Disney-Fox Deal Expected To Get Close Antitrust Scrutiny (Los Angeles Times)
- Disney-Fox Deal: Could Regulators Step in Over Sports? Is ESPN/RSN Spinoff Possible? (SportsBusiness Daily)
- Will Disney Eventually Split in Two Post-Fox Merger? (Hollywood Reporter)
- Fox’s Star To Bring Disney Cash and Cricket in India (Reuters)
- Disney’s Deal for Fox Is All About Streaming (The Motley Fool)
- Bob Iger on Management Plans, Direct-to-Consumer Focus and Staying Through 2021 (Deadline Hollywood)
- For Disney CEO Bob Iger, Fox Deal Is All About Future of TV (Bloomberg)
- VIDEO: Disney CEO Bob Iger Announces Fox Deal (ABC News)
- Disney Says James Murdoch Future Role Unclear (AP)
- Could Local TV Stations Drive Slimmed-Down 21st Century Fox Post-Disney Deal? (Deadline Hollywood)
- Breaking Down What Disney Is Getting From Fox (New York Times)
- Disney’s Fox Acquisition Means the End of Hulu as We Know It: It’s Not Going Away — But It Will Look Very Different. (Recode)
- How Disney’s Deal To Buy Fox Assets Will Change TV, Movies, Sports (USA Today)
UPDATED Dec. 15, 9:30 a.m. ET: Here are more of the latest reports and analysis from around the web:
- Did Disney Expand Its Sports Kingdom With Out-of-Favor Networks (i.e. regional sports networks)? (New York Times)
- The Streaming Landscape After Disney’s Deal (New York Times)
- What Disney’s Acquisition Of 21st Century Fox Means For Sports Fans (Deadspin)
- Here’s how that ginormous Disney-Fox deal will affect sports fans (Yahoo Sports)
- How the Disney, Fox deal affects local sports coverage (Long Beach Press Telegram)
- How Disney’s acquisition of FSKC could be a boon for Royals’ next TV deal (Kansas City Star)
- Fox Sports Detroit Part of Disney-21st Century Fox Deal (Crain’s Detroit Business)
- Fox Gives Disney Muscle for Next Net Fight (Wall Street Journal)
- Disney Will Rue Its Merger With Fox (Bloomberg)
- Disney’s Fox Deal Is Bet on Global Expansion (Wall Street Journal)
- Disney’s Purchase of Fox Will Make It More Expensive to Dump Cable TV (Los Angeles Times)
- Disney to Washington: Old Rules of Media No Longer Apply (Wall Street Journal)
- Disney-Fox Deal: Shares Of Both Companies Rise As Wall Street Embraces Plan (Deadline Hollywood)
- Murdoch Family Becomes Second Largest Disney Shareholder with Fox Deal (Los Angeles Times)
- The Disney-Fox Deal Has Friends in High Places (i.e. Trump) (New York Times)
- Fox-Disney Deal Gives Rupert Murdoch His King Lear Moment (New York Times)