Feds OK with Disney/Maker Studios Deal

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The federal government has no antitrust issues with Disney's proposed purchase of YouTube video channel network Maker Studios.

That came in an early termination listing from the Federal Trade Commission Friday, which means the feds have ended its Hart-Scott-Rodino antitrust review of the deal without finding any reason to challenge or condition the deal. The FTC and Justice divvy up the reviews.

Disney last month struck the deal after an effort by Relativity Media to outbid them failed.

Maker has 55,000 channels and 380 million subs.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.