Why Sky’s takeover of ITV and wider media consolidation could have a significant impact on the value of sports broadcast rights.

Sky acquisisce ITV per 1,9 miliardi, puntando a un campione dello streaming nel Regno Unito. La mossa fa parte di una lunga storia di M&A per sfidare Netflix e YouTube.

The £1.6bn acquisition of ITV’s broadcast arm reflects growing fear of streamers who are dominating the media landscape

The deal will see Sky buy ITV’s terrestrial TV channels and streaming service ITVX.

ITV's media and entertainment branch will be taken over by Sky, creating one of the biggest commercial broadcaster's in the UK, but this is what it means for viewers

Sky is buying ITV's television business for £1.6bn. Their plan is to create a new media empire - second only to the BBC in reach - and critically bigger than YouTube.

As Sky is set to acquire U.K. public service broadcaster ITV, Variety examine the winners and losers.

The blockbuster deal separates two things that made ITV unusually powerful — its network and its studio — and raises uncomfortable questions about the future of British television.

Sky's $2.1 B deal to buy ITV is the biggest move yet in a continent-wide consolidation wave, and after two decades of resistance, European regulators are starting to say yes.

The $2.13 proposed billion acquisition of ITV would redraw UK's advertising map. Advertisers are still waiting to hear what's in it for them.

The danger now for regulators is overcorrection: waving the Sky-ITV deal through as an act of regulatory penance

Why Sky’s takeover of ITV and wider media consolidation could have a significant impact on the value of sports broadcast rights.

Merger stokes fears over job cuts, US influence and possible BBC and Channel 4 tie-up to take on Netflix and YouTube