Sentence examples for media merger from inspiring English sources

The deal, the largest-ever media merger, was welcomed as a stroke of strategic brilliance.

The Conservatives reiterated their pledge to relax cross-media ownership rules and print media merger regulations.

PARIS — A decade ago, in January 2000, AOL and Time Warner agreed to get together in the biggest media merger of all time.

David Hearn, chairman and chief executive of Bates Worldwide, said the agency had pressed ahead with its media merger because it needed the extra power when buying advertising time and space.

Let's remember that news of the biggest media merger story of the year — Comcast-NBC Universal — arrived in The Wrap (www.thewrap.com), a Hollywood media site that is less than a year old.

Following this we will engage in detail on how the current media merger regime is operating in both protecting competition for relevant audiences and advertisers, and maintaining media plurality," Fletcher added.

Proponents of media mergers say such combinations improve consumer access to news, information and entertainment.

For a decade, ambitious titans assured us that media mergers were the wave of the future.

Its current chairman, Michael K. Powell, has indicated that he is not generally inclined to block media mergers.

In addition, the government should remove politicians from deciding on media mergers and takeovers.

3.23pm: Patry Hoskins asks about Ofcom's role in media mergers and plurality.