M&A & Spin Offs

• DOJ Issues Second Request on Fox's $22 Billion Roku Takeover, Extending Antitrust Review

  DOJ Issues Second Request on Fox's $22 Billion Roku Takeover, Extending Antitrust Review Fox and Roku each received a second request for information from the US Department of Justice on 8 September, e…

• Parks Associates: Fox-Roku Deal Shows the TV OS Is Now the Industry's Control Point

  Parks Associates: Fox-Roku Deal Shows the TV OS Is Now the Industry's Control Point Parks Associates research pegs Roku as the most-used streaming player in 43% of US internet households, with 17% of …

• Bertelsmann Closes BMG-Concord Merger, Creating a $2.5 Billion Music Company

  Bertelsmann Closes BMG-Concord Merger, Creating a $2.5 Billion Music Company Bertelsmann completed the combination of BMG and Concord on 1 September, taking 67% of the merged company while Great Mount…

• Bake Off Lawsuits Put Sky's Culture Under Scrutiny as Its £1.6 Billion ITV Takeover Nears

  Bake Off Lawsuits Put Sky's Culture Under Scrutiny as Its £1.6 Billion ITV Takeover Nears Former Love Productions managing director Letty Kavanagh has filed twin lawsuits against Sky, joined by compla…

• Dutch Competition Regulator Opens Formal Review of Videoland's €142 Million Viaplay Takeover

  Dutch Competition Regulator Opens Formal Review of Videoland's €142 Million Viaplay Takeover The Dutch competition authority ACM has published the concentration notification for Videoland's planned €1…

• Banijay Consolidates Post-Merger: Holland Confirmed as UK Chief, All3Media’s New York Office Closes

  Banijay Consolidates Post-Merger: Holland Confirmed as UK Chief, All3Media’s New York Office Closes A month after closing its roughly $8 billion All3Media merger, Banijay confirmed Patrick Holland as …

• Paramount Reportedly Readies $8 Billion Sale of Turner Networks to Salvage Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

  Paramount Reportedly Readies $8 Billion Sale of Turner Networks to Salvage Warner Bros. Discovery Deal Paramount is reportedly preparing to sell Warner Bros. Discovery's Turner networks - CNN, TBS and…

• DAZN to Acquire EverPass Media, Taking Over NFL Sunday Ticket's Commercial Rights

  DAZN to Acquire EverPass Media, Taking Over NFL Sunday Ticket's Commercial Rights DAZN has agreed to acquire EverPass Media, the RedBird Capital- and 32 Equity-founded platform holding exclusive US co…

• Paramount-WBD Close Slips to June 2027 as Settlement Talks With California Collapse

  Paramount-WBD Close Slips to June 2027 as Settlement Talks With California Collapse Paramount agreed to delay the $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery close to as late as June 2027, with the 12-state a…

• Paramount-WBD Antitrust Fight Chills Wider Media Dealmaking

  The state antitrust challenge to Paramount-WBD is freezing broader media M&A, while analyst Doug Shapiro argues the case will backfire.