(Reuters) – Sky, the European pay-TV group at the center of a fierce takeover battle, said it would add online video service Netflix to a new TV bundle, bringing drama like “The Crown” to its sport and entertainment offer for the first time. Netflix’s mix of original drama and movies has proved popular globally, with […]
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Comcast tops Fox’s bid for UK pay-TV giant Sky
An interesting wrinkle in Disney’s deal to acquire most of Fox is that Fox is also in the middle of a deal to buy Sky — a major telecom company and pay-TV service in the UK. Now Comcast (which includes NBCUniversal) has jumped in the middle of that deal with an offer that values Sky […]
Vodafone abandons its pay-TV plans
In a fairly predictable move, Vodafone has said it’s all but deserted plans to launch a pay-TV service in the UK. The company has barely touched on its televisual ambitions since announcing in spring 2015 that it expected to have something ready before the end of that year. As The Telegraph reports, the project was […]