Comcast bids on Fox bid in battle to buy Sky

New York – The US cable operator Comcast on Wednesday made an offer made the same day by the Fox group to buy the British television company Sky, a new episode of a battle on both sides of the Atlantic between giants of a sector in upheaval.
  

Comcast has increased to 26 billion pounds (29.4 billion euros), the same day the new offer from Fox, who wants to buy the 61% stake in Sky he does not have yet.

The Fox Group's offer, from the Murdoch family, valued Sky at 24.5 billion pounds (27.7 billion euros).

According to Comcast, its new bid was accepted by Sky's "independent 19459007" composed of leaders of the British non-Murdoch galaxy group, already present at the Sky management it controls 39% of the shares.

This same committee had accepted Fox's earlier offer.

" Comcast has long admired Sky and believes that it is a remarkable company that would marry very well with Comcast ," said the group in a statement.

Wednesday's bidding illustrates " the commitment to hold Sky ," he adds.

Contrary to Fox's offer, Comcast's offer has already been approved by the UK competition authorities.

In addition to Sky News, Sky is very active in the sport and has just managed to keep hold of most of the broadcast rights of the " Premier League " English Football League in the UK . The group has also entered into a partnership with the Swedish music streaming platform Spotify. Sky also broadcasts fiction, holding for example the broadcast rights of the hit series Game of Thrones.

Fox's offer was subject to the approval of the British authorities, who have been studying the case for many months.

London is worried about the plurality of media in the United Kingdom, where Murdoch already controls two large daily newspapers, the Sun and the Times.