{"id":1014671,"date":"2026-06-16T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014671"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:54:22","slug":"fox-strikes-22-billion-deal-for-roku-to-fuel-streaming-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/fox-strikes-22-billion-deal-for-roku-to-fuel-streaming-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox strikes $22 billion deal for Roku to fuel streaming push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Corp is buying Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $22 billion in a bet that pairing its sports and news programming with a top TV streaming platform will strengthen its position as audiences shift online. <\/p>\n<p>The deal, announced on Monday, gives Fox access to the more than 100 million households using Roku&#8217;s streaming platform, potentially helping the cable TV-reliant media company better target ads and reduce reliance on traditional distribution. <\/p>\n<p>It is Fox&#8217;s first major acquisition since CEO and Chairman Lachlan \u200cMurdoch cemented control \u2060over the \u2060media empire his father Rupert built, following a family settlement last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox Corp is buying Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $22 billion in a bet that pairing its sports and news programming with a top TV streaming platform will strengthen its position as audiences shift online. The deal, announced on Monday, gives Fox access to the more than 100 million households using Roku&#8217;s streaming platform, potentially helping the cable TV-reliant media company better target ads and reduce reliance on traditional distribution. It is Fox&#8217;s first major acquisition since CEO and Chairman Lachlan \u200cMurdoch cemented control \u2060over the \u2060media empire his father Rupert built, following a family settlement last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014719,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014671\/revisions\/1014719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}