• Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
  • We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.

WoahW

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,974
This deal is for the 60% that Disney won't be buying as part of the Fox assets. Essentially they were bidding for the part of Sky, the majority, that Murdoch didn't own.

Effectively Disney is now a minority owner in Sky and will have to take a backseat to Comcast. Interesting that while this went to a bidding process Comcast still managed to make Disney pay $19 billion more than they had intended for Murdoch's Fox assets and won control of Sky (which Iger himself described as the "crown jewels" of what he wanted from Murdoch) anyway.

EDIT - Corrected the percentage.

Dude are you REALLY back at this stupid shit?

You literally had egg all over your face in the last Fox/Disney/Comcast thread and it looks like you're headed there again.

Anyway you slice it someone was overpaying for Fox there isn't enough properties left worth shit and Disney won that battle.

Just let the hate of Disney go already good lord
 

Pwnz

Member
Oct 28, 2017
14,279
Places
Our cable conglomerates are adapting by spreading. UK people, dont believe comcasts lies. They are up their with AT&T and Apple in fucking over customers. Entirely money driven, anticompetitive, overpriced, and bad service.
 

Deleted member 11626

User requested account closure
Banned
Oct 27, 2017
4,199
Comcast is the worst company I've ever dealt with and I'm sorry for all who will be dealing with their bullshit from now on.

Edit: actually reading through the thread and some of you just don't know what you're in for with Comcast. Good luck I guess
 
Last edited:
Oct 31, 2017
5,632
There's nothing in China for Disney to interrupt, I doubt anything happens. There's problems in Brazil though for Sports.

Take it with a grain of salt as this points to a Brazil .gov site and it is not showing India approving in the timeline, but apparently Brazil has already approved:

https://www.manalo-llp.com/deals/25-twenty-first-century-fox-comcast

Would be great if a native portuguese speaker could translate the source for us.


Disney is acquiring Fox Sports over there. And ESPN also has a presence there.
 

ManaByte

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned
Oct 27, 2017
11,087
Southern California
And unfortunately, most people don't understand the legal situation around M&A where Disney can't touch anything from Fox until the deal fully closes, which is made worse by websites and YouTubers perpetuating their ideas. I don't know how you stay sane trying to report things while all of that is making the rounds.

It's easy enough to ignore the YouTubers but when one of the biggest comic sites contacts me and says they have a source saying the Fox characters are being filmed right now by Disney (six months before they legally can) I'm just like:
tenor.gif
 

WastemanLoso

Member
Apr 16, 2018
571
D.C
Dude are you REALLY back at this stupid shit?

You literally had egg all over your face in the last Fox/Disney/Comcast thread and it looks like you're headed there again.

Anyway you slice it someone was overpaying for Fox there isn't enough properties left worth shit and Disney won that battle.

Just let the hate of Disney go already good lord

Disney will get back around 31 Billion once they sale their stake in Sky & sale all the RSNs.
 

WastemanLoso

Member
Apr 16, 2018
571
D.C
These fifteen places to sign off on Disney Fox Merger: European Union, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, the Russian Federation, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
 
Dec 24, 2017
172
I want to add something to WastemanLoso post:
These sixteen places to sign off on Disney Fox Merger: European Union, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico, the Russian Federation, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States.
 

WoahW

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,974
Disney will get back around 31 Billion once they sale their stake in Sky & sale all the RSNs.

Oh I know, plus potentially Hulk, Namor, other small stuff.

This dude just hates Disney then admitted he had no idea about Comcast or how they handled business or treated their customers.

You would think he is in line to inherit Comcast by how much he talks them up.
 

TechnicPuppet

Member
Oct 28, 2017
10,835
Comcast is the worst company I've ever dealt with and I'm sorry for all who will be dealing with their bullshit from now on.

Edit: actually reading through the thread and some of you just don't know what you're in for with Comcast. Good luck I guess

No one in the UK will need to deal with them. They can just leave them.
 

Chris.

Member
Oct 27, 2017
1,920
Comcast is the worst company I've ever dealt with and I'm sorry for all who will be dealing with their bullshit from now on.

Edit: actually reading through the thread and some of you just don't know what you're in for with Comcast. Good luck I guess
Nah, we know what they're like in America.

They just won't get away with that shit here and will get laughed out the business. I mean, if they want to commit business suicide they're more than willing to try.

They do it in America because they get away with it and also because they can. That's not the case here.
 

AGoodODST

Member
Oct 28, 2017
2,480
It's not really going to make a huge change to anything. Comcast can't pull any of the horse shit they do in the US.

Sky's doing pretty well right now so I can't imagine any serious shake ups. Will be interesting to watch what happens anyway.
 

Bus-TEE

Banned
Nov 20, 2017
4,656
Dude are you REALLY back at this stupid shit?

You literally had egg all over your face in the last Fox/Disney/Comcast thread and it looks like you're headed there again.

Anyway you slice it someone was overpaying for Fox there isn't enough properties left worth shit and Disney won that battle.

Just let the hate of Disney go already good lord

This dude just hates Disney then admitted he had no idea about Comcast or how they handled business or treated their customers.


I know that I'm saying things that seem to upset you and cause you to defend the multi national corporation you have inexplicably have an emotional attachment too but when you aren't able to argue against my points beyond childishly lashing out it A) just makes it easier for me to dismiss you and B) makes it look like you're the one who doesn't understand what's going on.

If you can't properly articulate an argument against what I post please don't bother reply to me at all because not I'm going to stop making posts like these so you'll just have to learn to live with it or ignore me.
 

WoahW

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,974

I know that I'm saying things that seem to upset you and cause you to defend the multi national corporation you have inexplicably have an emotional attachment too but when you aren't able to argue against my points beyond childishly lashing out it A) just makes it easier for me to dismiss you and B) makes it look like you're the one who doesn't understand what's going on.

If you can't properly articulate an argument against what I post please don't bother reply to me at all because not I'm going to stop making posts like these so you'll just have to learn to live with it or ignore me.

Except you are CLEARLY missing the fact Disney is selling/trading back their stake in Sky and will recoup billions of dollars, yet you have completely ignored that fact to say your favorite company that you know nothing about were forced to overbid for Fox (which even analysts agreed, they did not).

You are the one drive by posting as a stan for Comcast in any thread related to Disney, but sure I'm the one "out of touch" on the subject.

Keep on stanning and looking dumb in every Disney/Fox/Comcast thread, please maybe that's your shtick on the internet
 

Bus-TEE

Banned
Nov 20, 2017
4,656
Except you are CLEARLY missing the fact Disney is selling/trading back their stake in Sky and will recoup billions of dollars, yet you have completely ignored that fact to say your favorite company that you know nothing about were forced to overbid for Fox (which even analysts agreed, they did not).

You are the one drive by posting as a stan for Comcast in any thread related to Disney, but sure I'm the one "out of touch" on the subject.

Keep on stanning and looking dumb in every Disney/Fox/Comcast thread, please maybe that's your shtick on the internet

The fact that you somehow think I'm supporting Comcast by merely stating facts about the Disney/Sky deal is ludicrous in the extreme. I don't even live in North America, how do you think I somehow developed this 'crush' on a faceless, multi national corporation like Comcast in the first place?!

I can only hope that you're a teenager and this phase of being such a staunch defender of Disney, a multi national corporation that doesn't give a fuck about you, is a fleeting one.

Seeing as you don't intend to ignore me and seem intent to come at me with these bizarre, rambling replies I suppose you're just going to have to live my posts.
 

WoahW

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
1,974
The fact that you somehow think I'm supporting Comcast by merely stating facts about the Disney/Sky deal is ludicrous in the extreme. I don't even live in North America, how do you think I somehow developed this 'crush' on a faceless, multi national corporation like Comcast in the first place?!

I can only hope that you're a teenager and this phase of being such a staunch defender of Disney, a multi national corporation that doesn't give a fuck about you, is a fleeting one.

Seeing as you don't intend to ignore me and seem intent to come at me with these bizarre, rambling replies I suppose you're just going to have to live my posts.

Then why would you jump at the change to dog Disney when they are clearly the better option? The facts you stated are nothing more than your opinion about how Disney was made to overbid and they still lost Sky what assholes Am I Right? You show me where you stayed facts and not opinions.

We went over this in the other thread I guess you forgot, this was happening either way no matter your opinion on companies getting bigger and Disney is far less evil than Comcast.

Once again you ignore the numbers and just post blindly, get off your white high horse and actually talk about facts and numbers or you'll continue to look like a Comcast Stan.
 

GrizzleBoy

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
2,762
*le sigh*

Fucking American piece of shit coming over here and doing all of the shitty things.

There isn't a time I've ever heard any person say anything good about Comcast.
 

TheZynster

Member
Oct 26, 2017
13,285
Comcast are already something like $60billion (Yes Billion not million) in debt before even making this bid, they're borrowing every penny of this bid. So add another $40billion onto that, before you even talk about interest.


Comcast makes like 85 billion in revenue a year.......they barely upgrade any infrastructure. What the hell they doing, just buying media?
 

hodayathink

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,055
Nah, we know what they're like in America.

They just won't get away with that shit here and will get laughed out the business. I mean, if they want to commit business suicide they're more than willing to try.

They do it in America because they get away with it and also because they can. That's not the case here.

Even if Comcast can't get away with the specific shit they do in the US, they will try their damnedest to get away with as much as they possibly can in the UK. Like, that's in their DNA.
 

Lagamorph

Wrong About Chicken
Member
Oct 26, 2017
7,355
And it's all over.
Comcast have now officially had enough acceptance from Shareholders for their offer to be considered "Wholly Unconditional"