Reuters: Regulatory News: News Corp's $2.1 bln bid for Consolidated Media approved

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News Corp's $2.1 bln bid for Consolidated Media approved Oct 31st 2012, 01:58 MELBOURNE | Tue Oct 30, 2012 9:58pm EDT MELBOURNE Oct 31 (Reuters) - Shareholders in Consolidated Media Holdings Ltd voted in favour of a A$2 billion ($2.07 billion) takeover offer from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp , giving News Corp a greater share of Australia's pay-TV market. The deal will double the stake of News Corp's Australian unit in dominant pay-TV operator Foxtel to 50 percent and give it 100 percent of content provider Fox Sports, boosting its pay-TV exposure at the same time as it cuts back print operations. The board of Consolidated Media had backed the offer.

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