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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tribune-media-m-a-sinclair-idUSKBN1841HR
U.S. broadcaster Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc said on Monday it would buy Tribune Media Co, one of the largest U.S. television station operators, for about $3.9 billion cash and stock, and assume about $2.7 billion in debt.
[...] The announcement of the deal comes weeks after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted to reverse a 2016 decision that limits broadcasters owning stations serving no more than 39 percent of U.S. television households.
A combined Tribune and Sinclair could surpass this cap and face some regulatory challenges which could result in divestitures, analysts said.
Tribune Media. The newspaper assets were spun off years ago into Tribune Publishing, aka Tronc.
Related: Gannett Ends Pursuit of Rival Newspaper Publisher Tronc
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday May 09 2017, @11:50AM (4 children)
The ultra-liberal FAIR [fair.org] says that the deal "would’ve been in violation of ownership restrictions just weeks ago."
A plan by the Blackstone Group and 21st Century Fox to jointly take over Tribune Media had been rumoured.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @10:52PM (3 children)
Sorry if this isn't directly related to your comment, but I thought it deserved to be up in the (meta)thread.
Actually, this is the kind of stuff that I think deserves to be noted in the summary.
(I have avoided Reuters as a primary source since they started[1] this nonsense about a month ago and will only link to them when an article's author has already included that link.)
[1] This kind of big change is typically the result of a site getting a new web guy and his need to put "his brand" on the site.
It almost never is an improvement and is invariably an unnecessary backwards movement.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday May 09 2017, @11:19PM (2 children)
> Sorry if this isn't directly related to your comment [...]
"Reply to Article" would have been better.
> I have avoided Reuters as a primary source since they started this nonsense about a month ago [...]
I don't know what you're experiencing. I have Javascript disabled and the Reuters article linked from this topic is perfectly readable for me; other Reuters pages have also been readable for me. I suggest you try disabling CSS in your browser. If that doesn't work, you could try the Lynx browser, which does not support Javascript. I just confirmed that the article displays properly in Lynx.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @11:58PM (1 child)
"Reply to Article" would have been better
Already covered with deserved to be up in the (meta)thread.
try disabling CSS
Way ahead of you (permanently, with few exceptions).
perfectly readable for me
Hmmm.
Maybe its because your browser made a better guess at what their coder produced.
My browser was looking for HTML and not gibberish. [w3.org]
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Wednesday May 10 2017, @12:24AM
Since you have CSS disabled by default, perhaps enabling them would be worth a try.