{"id":452509,"date":"2018-06-26T16:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T20:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=452509"},"modified":"2018-06-26T16:30:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T20:30:33","slug":"fox-desperately-trying-to-avoid-selling-to-comcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=452509","title":{"rendered":"Fox desperately trying to avoid selling to Comcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/comcast-logo-thumbnail-640x360-4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\">(credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"http:\/\/my.xfinity.com\/?cid=cust\">Comcast<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>21st Century Fox has been consistently trying to avoid selling to Comcast because Fox officials believe a merger with the largest US cable company may not be approved by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast and the Walt Disney Company have been in a bidding war for the assets being sold by Fox. The most recent development came last week when Fox leadership <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/06\/disney-outbids-comcast-in-escalating-bidding-war-for-21st-century-fox\/\">rejected<\/a> a $65 billion offer from Comcast and accepted Disney&#8217;s new offer of $71.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Comcast could try to outbid Disney again and seek approval from Fox shareholders. But Fox and Disney said in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1744489\/000119312518201596\/d770960ds4.htm\">Securities and Exchange Commission filing<\/a> that a Comcast\/Fox deal would face a difficult path to regulatory approval.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1337153#p3\">Read 9 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1337153&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=-qLhAuPAMm8:VB5BMzMv3ww:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=-qLhAuPAMm8:VB5BMzMv3ww:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=-qLhAuPAMm8:VB5BMzMv3ww:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=-qLhAuPAMm8:VB5BMzMv3ww:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1337153\" target=\"_blank\">Fox desperately trying to avoid selling to Comcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(credit: Comcast) 21st Century Fox has been consistently trying to avoid selling to Comcast because Fox officials believe a merger with the largest US cable company may not be approved by the federal government. Comcast and the Walt Disney Company &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=452509\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":452510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-452509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/452510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}