スペインの電話会社のTelefonicaは、EL PAIS 全国新聞の出版社のGrupo PRISA の所有するCanal+のDTS(Distribuidora de Television Digital)の株式の56%を725'000'000ユーロ(7億2500万ユーロ)で買収することを申し出る。
Telefónica presenta una oferta para hacerse con el control de Canal+
La operadora ofrece 725 millones de euros por el 56% de DTS, la plataforma de televisión de pago
El consejo de administración de PRISA estudiará la propuesta, que no es la única presentada
El País Madrid 6 MAY 2014 - 22:22 CET
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Telefónica presents an offer to take control of Canal +
The operator provides EUR 725 million for 56% of DTS, the pay TV platform
The board will consider the proposal of PRISA, which is not only presented
The Country Madrid 6 MAY 2014 - 22:22 CET
Telefónica announced Tuesday night, at the close of market , which has submitted a binding offer for the acquisition of 56% of the capital stock of Distribuidora de Televisión Digital, owned by Grupo Prisa (publisher of El País ) , amounting to 725 million euros , according to the note sent to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV). The board of directors will meet to study HURRY this offer and any other , since the Telefónica has not been the only one submitted .
The presiding César Alierta operator already owns 22% of DTS, platform pay-TV Canal + . The CEO of Telefónica, José María Álvarez -Pallete , acknowledged in last results presentation last February that the purchase of Canal + was among the options that shuffled the group to strengthen its offering pay TV , Fusion TV, a time when the combined offers gain prominence in the world of telecommunications.
Telefonica said in its communication to the CNMV that " the deal is subject to obtaining the relevant regulatory approvals and the fulfillment of the usual conditions in such transactions."
Meanwhile, a spokesman for PRISA stated that Telefonica's bid was not the only one received and the company president , Juan Luis Cebrian, urgently convene a board of directors to consider the bid and to take any other relevant decisions . The same spokesman confirmed the will made public that the company wants to divest Canal + urgently .
If the deal, which involves assessing 100% of the capital of 1.295 billion DTS closes, Telefónica will have a 78 % stake while Mediaset Spain would control the other 22%.
In late February , PRISA Telefónica and Mediaset granted within 15 days to acquire DTS by exercising a call option by reducing the Polanco family, through its holding company rucandio , participation in group communication below 30% . After that period , neither company exercised its right to acquire the shareholding of PRISA on the platform.
Telefónica has announced that pay-TV through TV Merger will constitute a strategic part of their business offering, integrated converged packet with the fixed, mobile and Internet. To do this, the operator has bought back rights to sporting events such as Formula 1 or motorcycle world championship and has been postulated to expand its content offering through acquisitions. The number of subscribers to its TV offering amounts to about 700,000.
The main competitor of Telefónica in Spain in the telecommunications business , Vodafone, has been recently strengthened with the purchase of the cable operator Ono a transaction valued at 7,200 million euros, including debt , a transaction that is still pending closure .
So far this year, the PRISA Group has sales of 15 million shares of Mediaset Spain worth 121 million euros and has reached an agreement , pending closing , for the transfer of operations editions general the Random House Group for 72 million euros.
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