Disney-Fox Deal News Roundup: Everything You Need to Know About the M&E Megadeal (UPDATED)

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 By Jason Dachman, Chief Editor

Thursday, December 14, 2017 - 7:47 am

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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)

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