Fox Corp. is buying streaming platform Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion, including debt.

The deal will give Fox access to the Roku channel, first-party data and more than 100 million global streaming households. Fox oversees a massive media network that includes sports, news and entertainment, as well as Tubi.

The companies said Monday that Roku will continue t be run as an open, partner-friendly platform. Fox and Roku said that the combined company will become the third-largest player in U.S. television by share of viewing.

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    Corporate consolidation is the capitalist end point. They can’t run the business any better so they make it bigger and fire more people.

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      And eventually there’s just one company left, so you have no choice but to buy from them no matter how expensive or slapdash their product.

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        And that company here is Disney right? Unless I’m mistaken Disney’s owns Fox, so this reeks even more of Disney’s effort to swallow any sort of competition

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          Not this fox, you’re thinking of 21st century Fox. This is Fox as in Fox News

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            Fox Sports and Fox Broadcasting join Fox News as assets that will help make up Fox Corporation — which is officially a stand-alone, publicly traded company.

            Ah ok, thanks for the pull up.