The article from Reuters points out that any decision from the Justice Department on the Disney purchase of the selected Fox assets would have to wait until the Time Warner-AT&T merger is approved. Right now, either Time Warner will have to sell Turner Broadcasting or AT&T will have to sell DirecTV for the merger to continue, and TW says that it is not selling CNN under any circumstances (although they might sell all or part of Turner EXCEPT CNN).
Someone else has pointed out that the whole idea of Murdoch keeping the Fox network is a little screwy, in that the only value for a commercial broadcasting network in the U.S. these days is as a showcase for programming owned by the parent company and with the entertainment programming now owned by Disney, there seems to be little reason to keep Fox. However, it could be that perhaps the Murdochs feel that the broadcast network would be a showcase for their news and sports holdings, which of course would be true for some of their holdings, but not others. I can't really see Sean Hannity moving from FNC to the broadcast network, for example, although I'm sure that Roger Ailes was frustrated that he couldn't get anything other than "Fox News Sunday" on the broadcast network (the one attempt to give Bill O'Reilly a prime time broadcast failed and the attempts during his stint running the syndication division to get a Fox News produced syndicated show on the air--"The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet" and "Geraldo at Large"--were both failures). I started to say "branded," but "The Morning Show" did try to hide its origination point, to some success. Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor [email protected] On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 9:23 AM, 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > > Comcast is now out of the running. Reuters > <https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fox-m-a-comcast-exclusive/comcast-drops-bid-for-fox-assets-leaving-disney-in-pole-position-idUSKBN1E52OM> > (link) > > B > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
