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News Corp’s US$2.1b bid for Consolidated Media approved

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Shareholders in Consolidated Media Holdings Ltd voted in favour of a A$2 billion (US$2.07 billion) takeover offer from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp , giving News Corp a greater share of Australia’s pay-TV market.

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The deal will double the stake of News Corp’s Australian unit in dominant pay-TV operator Foxtel to 50 per cent and give it 100 per cent of content provider Fox Sports, boosting its pay-TV exposure at the same time as it cuts back print operations.

The board of Consolidated Media had backed the offer.

 

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