{"id":31481,"date":"2018-06-14T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T11:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=31481"},"modified":"2018-06-14T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T11:52:02","slug":"comcast-makes-65-billion-offer-for-21st-century-fox-assets-as-bidding-war-with-disney-heats-up-foxa-cmcsa-dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=31481","title":{"rendered":"Comcast makes $65 billion offer for 21st Century Fox assets as bidding war with Disney heats up (FOXA, CMCSA, DIS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static4.businessinsider.com\/image\/5b217bf41ae6621d008b5aa2-2400\/rtx5cng.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"comcast\" \/>REUTERS\/Rick Wilking<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/stocks\/CMCSA-stock?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Comcast<\/a> has officially bid $65 billion for <a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/stocks\/foxa-stock?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">21st Century Fox<\/a>, topping <a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/stocks\/dis-stock?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Disney<\/a>&#8216;s $52 billion offer.&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe proposal comes one day after a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/att-time-warner-stock-price-ahead-of-85-billion-merger-bid-decision-2018-6?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">court approved AT&amp;T&#8217;s $85 billion merger with Time Warner.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/stocks\/CMCSA-stock?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Comcast<\/a> made its highly-anticipated bid for <a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/stocks\/foxa-stock?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">21st Century Fox<\/a> official, offering $65 billion for the company excluding the&nbsp;Fox News and Fox Business channels.<\/p>\n<p>The bid, $35 per share in cash, is roughly 24%&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/comcast-considering-superior-all-cash-offer-for-21st-century-fox-2018-5?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">higher than Disney&#8217;s previous offer of $52 billion<\/a> for the company&#8217;s production assets and movie franchises.<a href=\"http:\/\/markets.businessinsider.com\/news\/stocks\/comcast-bids-65-billion-for-21st-century-fox-assets-bidding-war-disney-2018-6-1026952356?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">See the rest of the story at Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NOW WATCH: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/mcdonalds-wendys-burger-king-arbys-jack-in-the-box-red-logos-2018-5?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=referral\">Why so many fast food logos are red<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n<p><a 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href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=xup0d5Ftxgo:cJaoE13f_r4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=xup0d5Ftxgo:cJaoE13f_r4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=xup0d5Ftxgo:cJaoE13f_r4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=xup0d5Ftxgo:cJaoE13f_r4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=xup0d5Ftxgo:cJaoE13f_r4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?a=xup0d5Ftxgo:cJaoE13f_r4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/businessinsider?i=xup0d5Ftxgo:cJaoE13f_r4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<img 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Comcast made its highly-anticipated bid for 21st Century Fox official, offering $65 billion for the company excluding the&nbsp;Fox News and Fox Business &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15943,15785,15906,1021,15944,2671,15946,15947,15945,15948],"class_list":["post-31481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-21st","tag-assets","tag-billion","tag-business","tag-century","tag-cities","tag-disneys","tag-fast","tag-offer","tag-rudest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/rtx5cng1528977123.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}