{"id":107187,"date":"2026-06-15T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=4ead4208c09d08684728fae7d4132ff2"},"modified":"2026-06-15T08:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:55:01","slug":"fox-is-buying-roku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=107187","title":{"rendered":"Fox is buying Roku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/business\/949727\/fox-roku-acquisition-22-billion\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Having the customer end device and the service owned by the same entity is a one way road to enshitification; there is a vast and cross-domain catalog of examples, some of which were actually shut down by antitrust action.<\/div><figure>\n\n<img alt=\"Roku logo on a pink and purple background.\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Roku.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n\t<figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Fox has announced that it's acquiring Roku outright, in a deal that values the streaming company at $22 billion. Once the deal is complete, Fox content will be promoted more heavily than before on Roku streamers and smart TVs.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will see Fox's TV networks and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/3\/17\/21184294\/fox-tubi-acquisition-streaming-wars-news-sports-xumi-comcast-pluto-viacomcbs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tubi<\/a> streamer combine with Roku's network of streaming devices, smart TV software, and The Roku Channel. The companies say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/fox-corporation-to-acquire-roku-inc-302800220.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a press release<\/a> that by combining they'll become the third-largest player in the US TV industry by viewing share.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is a defining moment for Fox, and a natural extension of the deliberate and focused strategy we have been executing for nearly a decad &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/business\/949727\/fox-roku-acquisition-22-billion\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox has announced that it&#8217;s acquiring Roku outright, in a deal that va&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=107187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}