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It's Official: News Corp to Buy DirecTV

Posted by chrisd on from the fox-news-on-500-channels dept.

Guppy06 writes "According to this Washington Post article, the heads at both News Corporation (owners of Fox) and DirecTV have agreed to a $6.6 billion deal to secure the purchase of DirecTV by News, with GM getting a little less than half of that total in cash. All that remains now is the actual exchange. For the record, EchoStar was going to pay $30 billion before the FCC shot them down."

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  1. Slanderer! by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's fair and balanced. They say so themselves. Why is everything a conspiracy with you liberals?

  2. FOX? by johnkoer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I couldn't help thinkin of the Simpsons on this one:

    Lisa: It's wonderful to think for ourselves again.
    Bart: You said it, sister!
    TV: You are watching Fox.
    All: [Zombie-like] We are watching Fox.

    --
    Johnkoerner.com