Saturday, December 16, 2017

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FOX
Daily update December 16, 2017


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Disney Buys Fox: It's Not A Small World After All
In a world of almost continuous big news, The Walt Disney Company's $52.4 billion acquisition of most of 21st Century Fox is really big news. The deal reinforces the notion that the beloved (or hated) Disneyworld ride “It's a Small World” has little resonance in today's land of the media (and tech) giants, ...
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Lawmaker who spun history of heroics ends life in suicide
FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Kentucky lawmaker's resume included enough material for an award-winning memoir: He was a peacekeeper at the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, a White House chaplain to three presidents and a 9/11 first responder who gave last rites to hundreds of people at Ground Zero ...
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Charted: How the Disney-Fox mega-merger eats up market share
Disney struck a deal to buy 21st Century Fox for roughly $66 billion yesterday (Dec. 14), in a largely horizontal mega-merger, that would allow the two media companies to join forces against tech-turned-content giants Amazon and Netflix. What makes it horizontal? Both Disney and Fox both dominate ...
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Uber driver raped 16-year-old girl, authorities say
Abdoulie Jagne, 58, was booked into the Gwinnett County Jail in north central Georgia, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. Authorities told the station that more charges ... Police found the teen to be intoxicated, with her pants around her ankles, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. She was transported to a nearby hospital for ...
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New Day for Media Stocks With Disney-Fox Deal
Now, streaming TV has become a threat to their survival, and the industry is scrambling to respond. The high stakes explain the willingness of Walt Disney (ticker: DIS) to acquire the bulk of 21st Century Fox (FOXA) in a deal worth $70 billion. Disney executives hope the increased scale can make up for ...
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Dueling statistics used at hearing on racial bias in stings
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Beverly Hills anesthesiologist charged with murder after patient dies
File 2017: An anesthesiologist who worked at the Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery Center in Beverly Hills has been charged with murder. (R. Gaydos). A Beverly Hills anesthesiologist was charged Wednesday with murder after a patient suffered a fatal overdose while under his care, the Los Angeles Times ...
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Trump blasts FBI ahead of speech at bureau but tells graduating class he 'has their back'
Deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told Fox News that edits to former FBI Director James Comey's statement on Hillary Clinton's private email server and text messages from a top agent critical of Trump are "deeply troubling." "There is extreme bias against this president with high-up members of the ...
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Comey edits revealed: Remarks on Clinton probe were watered down, documents show
Johnson referenced newly revealed anti-Trump text messages exchanged between FBI officials who at one point worked on the Robert Mueller Russia probe. Fox News has confirmed that one of those officials, Peter Strzok, a former deputy to the assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, was ...
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Gunman fires wildly during car chase through Baltimore
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Military training soldiers for jungle warfare
The training program is designed to keep the military ready for a potential conflict in Asia.
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There Could be a Future for More Marvel Films Like Deadpool After the Disney/Fox Deal
CEO Bob Iger believes there's a market for a specially branded range of R-rated MCU films he refers to as “Marvel-R” in the wake of Disney's takeover of 21st Century Fox's TV and movie studios. It (Deadpool) clearly has been and will be Marvel branded. But we think there might be an opportunity for a ...
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Here's What the Disney-Fox Deal Means for Your TV
(Video provided by TODAY). After months of speculation and on-again, off-again talks, it's official: Disney and Fox have agreed to a $52.4 billion-plus deal Thursday that will bring most of the latter's television and film holdings into the portfolio of the former. It is not hyperbolic to say that this is one of the ...
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Proposed acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney
On December 14, 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced its intent to acquire key assets of 21st Century Fox. Under the terms of the agreement, Disney will acquire the Twentieth Century Fox film and TV studios and related assets; cable networks including FX Networks, Fox Sports Regional ...
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Disney to buy Fox's film and TV businesses for $52 billion Reuters
Walt Disney has struck a deal to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox for $52.4 billion.
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The Simpsons may have predicted the Disney-Fox takeover 20 years ago
Indy 100. Forget fortune-tellers, crystal ball gazers and mystics. In fact, skip over prediction based computer modelling as well. Disney is set to buy Fox in a $52-billion deal that is anticipated to "reshape the media industry", "transform the Hollywood landscape" and was apparently "once unthinkable".
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If he's lost Fox viewers...
The most important poll number to come out this week had nothing to do with defeated Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. It had to do with Fox News and Donald Trump. We'll get to the numbers in a minute.
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Mom of 5 who lost home in Hurricane Harvey learns she's expecting quadruplets
Provided by Fox News Ruth Gichana and her husband, Joshua, believed they were finished having children when she learned she was expecting quadruplets. A Hurricane Harvey survivor who lost her home in the devastating floodwaters was shocked to learn that she is expecting naturally conceived ...
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Disney-Fox market share
Disney is set to buy 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. I honestly don't have the mental capacity or imagination to comprehend such a large sum, much less figure out how such a deal works. At least Youyou Zhou, reporting for Quartz, provides breakdowns of market share for the two companies, which ...
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Disney is set to buy 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. I honestly don't have the mental capacity or imagination to comprehend such a large sum, much less figure out… Become a member. Learn to visualize your data. From beginner to advanced. What you get ...
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Daily update December 15, 2017


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The Disney-Fox Deal Has Friends in High Places
Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who is executive chairman of 21st Century Fox, is one of President Trump's closest allies and advisers. Fox News has been the president's most reliable media champion. Mr. Murdoch and the president have each publicly described the other as “my good friend.”.
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From Fox to 'Star Wars': Everything You Need to Know About Disney's Blockbuster Year
Walt Disney expects to end this year basking in the (lightsaber) glow of the likely box-office blockbuster Star Wars: The Last Jedi—which opens in movie theaters on Friday, Dec. 15—not to mention a massive, just-announced acquisition of the bulk of 21st Century Fox's assets. The company's 2017 felt at ...
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Archaeologists reconstruct face of ancient, 1200-year-old Peruvian queen
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Walt Disney buys Murdoch's Fox for $52.4bn
Walt Disney says it is to buy 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets for a total $52.4bn (£39bn). The deal includes Fox's 39% stake in satellite broadcaster Sky, and the 20th Century Fox film studio, Disney announced. Fox's remaining assets, including Fox News and Sports, will form a new company.
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Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney
In December 2017, The Walt Disney Company announced its intent to acquire the majority of 21st Century Fox. Under the terms of the agreement, Disney will acquire the Twentieth Century Fox film and TV studios and related assets; cable networks including FX Networks, Fox Sports Regional Networks; ...
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Disney Fox Mega-Merger
Walt Disney Co. plans to create an entertainment colossus with the acquisition of a significant part of 21st Century Fox.
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The Walt Disney Company To Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc
The Walt Disney Company and Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (21st Century Fox) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Disney to acquire 21st Century Fox, including the Twentieth Century Fox Film and Television studios, along with cable and international TV ...
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Disney to buy Fox film, TV businesses for $52.4 billion Reuters
Walt Disney Co on Thursday agreed to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc for $52.4 billion in stock.
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Of Course The Simpsons Predicted the Disney/Fox Deal
At this point, it shouldn't be at all surprising that The Simpsons managed to accurately predict a wild bit of IRL news that none of us ever saw coming, but yes: The Simpsons totally called Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox.
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Net neutrality showdown; Disney buys 21st Century Fox
Net neutrality showdown; Disney buys 21st Century Fox. WikiTribune Briefing and 6 collaborators Started 14 Dec 2017 | Last edited 10 mins ago. Doctors Without Borders (MSF), says more than 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed in Myanmar; Actress Salma Hayek latest to accuse Harvey Weinstein.
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What the Disney-Fox Deal Means for Digital Media
Walt Disney is spending $52.4 billion to buy most of 21st Century Fox in hopes of competing more effectively with Netflix, Amazon.com and Apple in digital entertainment. The deal will send ripples through Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Here is our analysis of the potential ramifications.
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Disney Buys Fox Assets In $52.4B Deal.
The Walt Disney Co. will acquire the majority of 21st Century Fox, including its studios, cable networks and international assets, in a stock deal valued at $52.4 billion.
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WGAW Opposes Disney-Fox Deal
LOS ANGELES – The Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) today issued the following statement regarding the Disney-Fox merger: “In the relentless drive to eliminate competition, big business has an insatiable appetite for consolidation. Disney and Fox have spent decades profiting from the ...
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