News Corp. to Buy Vivendi TV Unit
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News Corp. will pay Vivendi Universal about $888 million for its unprofitable Italian pay-television business after cutting the price by 40%.
The deal ends more than a year of talks between two of the world’s top media companies over who will control Italy’s pay-TV market.
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