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    Comcast offers $31 billion for European pay-TV giant Sky

    by Meg James, Los Angeles Times Feb 27, 2018 3 minutes

    Comcast Corp. has launched a $31-billion bid to acquire European pay-TV provider Sky in an aggressive move to wrest the service away from Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox - and the Walt Disney Co.

    Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, is largely based in the U.S., but it wants to expand its international portfolio. The London-based Sky satellite television service boasts more than 22 million customers in Britain, Ireland, Germany, Austria and

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