Disney buy 21st Century Fox for $52.4billion

[Angelus]

Rocketjay8 said:

Angelus said:
I've said this elsewhere, but keep in mind that this deal is at least a year away from being approved by the government if it's approved at all (though it likely will be). Things aren't set in stone just yet.

How are the chances of this will be disapproved by the government?

Probably quite poor. Rupert Murdoch is quite good friends with Trump as I understand it, so if he gets his way then the deal will likely go through in the end. It wouldn't be a great look for them, since they struck down a very similar deal in AT&T's proposed buyout of Time Warner, but.....I mean it's not like Trump and his administration really care about how hypocritical they appear is it? The optics aren't likely to bother them.