EU antitrust regulators scrap probe into Fox unit, Ziggo

Liberty Global

21/06/2023 16:16

BRUSSELS, June 21 (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators
have scrapped an investigation into a Fox  FOXA.O  unit and
Netherlands-based Ziggo Sport over European sports rights in
2020, two years after raiding their premises, according to an
update on the European Commission website.
    The EU competition enforcer in its 2018 statement said it
had raided some companies in several EU countries that
distribute media rights and related rights pertaining to various
sports events or their broadcasting. It did not name the
companies.
    Fox Networks Group (FNG), an operating unit of Rupert 
Murdoch's 21st Century Fox, and Ziggo Sport, a Netherlands-based
broadcaster owned by Liberty Global  LBTYA.O  and Vodafone
 VOD.L , said they were cooperating with the EU watchdog.
    "This case has been administratively closed," the Commission
said on its website without providing details.

 (Reporting by Foo Yun Chee
Editing by Mark Potter)
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