{"id":3325,"date":"2018-04-03T03:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=3d85e3334faa35a8545849e1d50c8833"},"modified":"2018-04-03T03:15:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:15:59","slug":"21st-century-fox-offers-more-concessions-in-bid-for-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/03\/21st-century-fox-offers-more-concessions-in-bid-for-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Century Fox offers more concessions in bid for Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; 21st Century Fox has offered new proposals to insulate Sky&#8217;s news operations from Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s influence in its ongoing bid to take full control of the London-based pay TV company.<\/p>\n<p>Fox said Tuesday it proposes to either sell Sky News to Walt Disney or comprehensively ringfence Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>It said in a regulatory filing it has worked &#8220;diligently&#8221; with Britain&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority to come up with proposals that would &#8220;safeguard the editorial independence of Sky News&#8221; and address the agency&#8217;s concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The agency is considering whether to recommend the Fox deal for Sky to Culture Secretary Matt Hancock for approval.<\/p>\n<p>It has reached a preliminary finding that the 11.7 billion-pound ($16.5 billion) takeover would give Murdoch excessive control over Britain&#8217;s media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &mdash; 21st Century Fox has offered new proposals to insulate Sky&rsquo;s news operations from Rupert Murdoch&rsquo;s influence in its ongoing bid to take full control of the London-based pay TV company. Fox said Tuesday it proposes to either sell Sky News to Walt Disney or comprehensively ringfence Sky News. It said in a regulatory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}