Vice had not provided updates on its offline intentions until today, but rumours of a takeover attempt by conventional broadcasting companies Time Warner and Fox served to keep the news channel - speculation alive, because being absorbed into
a traditional media conglomerate would give Vice easy access to their cable networks and partners.
Not exact matches
When Comcast initially invested $ 200 million in BuzzFeed in 2015, through its broadcast subsidiary NBCUniversal, it wasn't clear exactly what the cable
conglomerate was looking for from its investment in the digital - only startup, except perhaps a hedge against the disruption of television and other forms of
traditional media.
Do current regulations favor international
media conglomerates at the expense of local,
traditional and distinct cultures?
The
traditional news
media is in terminal decline and the online worldincreasingly dominated by a few large
conglomerates.
The private
media is more and more being taken over by big multinational
conglomerates with the idea of using it as a mouth piece for there agendas and the public
media is getting their budgets slashed and being cut off of their
traditional information sources.