On October 11th, the US cable giant Comcast acquires full control of Sky plc. For the first time since he launched Sky, Rupert Murdoch will have no say. But should we be careful what we wish for?
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Comcast was a late arrival at the Sky takeover party. Sky – the UK’s most valuable media enterprise – had been the subject of a bid by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in 2010, trying to buy the 60.1% of shares in the company it did not already own.
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