Fox to buy Roku for $22 billion

[Georgie56 3662]

CNBC reports.

Edited Tuesday at 02:13 AM by Georgie56

[Glimmer 342]

Fox says the plan is to continue running Tubi and Roku Channel separately

[Action Newsroom 1379]

29 minutes ago, Glimmer said:

Fox says the plan is to continue running Tubi and Roku Channel separately

...until the day they (are announced to) merge to "maximize the entertainment and monetary opportunities of both properties to create an FAST TV powerhouse that brings the best of TV and film to our hundred millions viewers that crave world-class free content". We shall see.

[tyrannical bastard 4683]

Another reminder that vertical integration is alive and well these days.

 

How long until all of the Warner Brothers FAST content is pulled to be added to HBOMaxParamount+?

[bmasters1 432]

2 hours ago, Action Newsroom said:

...until the day they (are announced to) merge to "maximize the entertainment and monetary opportunities of both properties to create an FAST TV powerhouse that brings the best of TV and film to our hundred millions viewers that crave world-class free content". We shall see.

 

And I may be wrong about this, but I strongly believe they'll define "the best of TV and film" to be only new and current television and picture content, with everything old out of the question (meaning the classics are out, and it'll only be new and current). 

[Megatron81 343]

I thought it was going to be Comcast that was going to be buying Roku. I didn't think it would've been FOX since they own Tubi I see them meagering Tubi & Roku in my opinion.   

[nickp 394]

Fox buying Roku for that much is wild

[TheRolyPoly 3545]

The title should say 22 billion. I knew it couldn't be for that little.

[channel2 1043]

On 6/15/2026 at 12:02 PM, bmasters1 said:

 

And I may be wrong about this, but I strongly believe they'll define "the best of TV and film" to be only new and current television and picture content, with everything old out of the question (meaning the classics are out, and it'll only be new and current). 

 

Could you imagine if Fox owned a bunch of classic movies? Wouldn't that be something?

 

On 6/15/2026 at 12:54 PM, Megatron81 said:

I thought it was going to be Comcast that was going to be buying Roku. I didn't think it would've been FOX since they own Tubi I see them meagering Tubi & Roku in my opinion.   

 

I feel like a Comcast-Roku deal would be a non-starter from a regulatory standpoint, even if our current president didn't have it out for Comcast.

Edited 2 hours ago by channel2