Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180923:08:45:00
Saga by announcing a rare event, an auction. this is like a penalty shoot-out of the u.k. world. this was three rounds of bidding over some 26 hours. comcast emerged as the winner at $22.57. and 21st century fox was at $20.46 a share. this means that comcast is valuing sky at nearly $40 billion, which is actually far more than its current market cap of $35.6 billion. now, the reason for all this, both disney, which is in the process of buying fox and comcast, wanted to buy sky to help diversify a wave in the united states. increasingly, it is hard to grow there against online streaming. that m...