It will focus on generating content with organic integration of brands and advertising pieces providing its customers with immediacy in the delivery of content, industrialization of audiovisual production and savings in production costs.
The proposed transaction was valued at $6.3 billion and expected to close prior to year-end 2019. Its main objective was to create what would have been the leading merger in the Swiss market with scale across all elements.
Televisa requested the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) to review the acquisition in case the Disney-Fox alliance can generate an “illegal concentration”.
French indie producer and distributor will bring 3 in-house wildlife projects to ATF: “Kalahari, land of secret alliances”; “Wild treasures of China” and “Genius sea hunters”.
Both companies announced an alliance which entails working together to develop, finance, produce and distribute some of Highlights’ most popular characters and properties into animated series.