{"id":92127,"date":"2018-05-21T13:20:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=477e5fd5cf089691f0c3b4f0809dde54"},"modified":"2018-05-21T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:20:23","slug":"press-release-statement-on-the-proposed-merger-between-comcast-corporation-and-sky-plc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=92127","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Statement on the proposed merger between Comcast Corporation and Sky plc"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On 7 May 2018, Comcast Corporation formally notified the European Commission of its intention to acquire the entire issued share capital of Sky plc.<\/p>\n<p>Under section 58 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (\u201cthe Act\u201d), the Secretary of State has the powers to intervene in certain media mergers on public interest grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Having reviewed the relevant evidence available, I can confirm that I have today written to the parties to inform them that I am minded not to issue an EIN on the basis that the proposed merger does not raise concerns in relation to public interest considerations which would meet the threshold for intervention.<\/p>\n<p>This is a quasi-judicial decision and I am required to make my decision independently, following a process that is scrupulously fair and impartial, and as promptly as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>I will now allow until 5pm on Thursday 24 May for interested parties to submit written representations, and I aim to come to a final decision on whether to intervene in the merger shortly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written Ministerial Statement by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport on the proposed merger between Comcast Corporation and Sky plc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}