Original story here:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/21st...y-sources.html
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Walt Disney has held talks with Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox about buying most of the company, including its stake in UK-based Sky, people briefed on the talks said, in a potentially controversial deal that would reshape the media landscape.
The very preliminary talks, which were first reported by CNBC, were no longer active, according to one person who was involved in the negotiations, and did not preclude Fox from being approached by another media company.
Another person said that Fox was effectively putting itself up for sale and that the likes of Verizon, the US telecom group, Charter Communications, the US cable company, and internet giant Amazon could be looking at buying all or part of its assets.
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https://www.ft.com/content/03f7c04a-...b-322b2cb39656
If Fox just focused on news and sport, I could see it merging with News Corp (The Times, The Sun, Talk Sport) and maybe acquiring Sky Sports too. Would Disney sell its stake in Sky to someone like Vodafone? And then Vodafone its German cable assets to LGI?