Disney Fox Takeover

A merge/takeover in the industry is where a company buys

another company in order to capture a larger proportion

of a market. A takeover describes a more aggressive form

of a merger where the buy-out has an absence of

harmony. An example would be the Disney-Fox merger where Walt Disney’s company bought 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion. This had a huge industry impact, Marvel started being controlled by Disney and decided to reunite ‘X-Men’, ‘Fantastic Four’ and ‘Deadpool’. This entered a more complex world of inter-related characters and stories. Disney also got the rights to films such as ‘Planet of the Apes’, ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Independence Day’. The issue with this takeover is that the Fox company is more or less over.

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* The BBC is funded by a TV license fee which is charged to

British households who use live streaming of TV, or catch up.

Companies and organisations using any type of equipment

to receive or record live television broadcasts and iPlayer

catch up also have to pay the fee. The BBC’s role is to

provide TV for the publics benefit rather than to show us just

commercial interests. The BBC can be seen as a politically

neutral platform, used for informing us on daily news which

they think we should know about. Some argue that it is

outdated and needs to be scrapped, pointing to the

debate over the high wages the BBC pays some of its

presenters and producers etc, all funded by the licence

fee.

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