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Start your morning with Buzzcast : Tackling the fallout from the United Bid ’s win of the '26 World Cup and AT&T’s mega-merger with Time Warner.

Comcast Likely Readying Fox Bid In Wake Of AT&T-Time Warner

On the heels of a federal judge's decision that AT&T's $85B acquisition of Time Warner "should not be stopped for competitive reasons, Comcast is expected to make its bid for the 21st Century Fox film and TV studio assets" that Disney has "already agreed to buy." The assets up for grabs include Fox' 22 RSNs ( USATODAY.com, 6/13 ). Comcast, as early as today, is "expected to offer" $60B for the Fox assets ( PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 6/13 ). But the AT&T-Time Warner ruling "could also give Comcast reason to start lower" in its bidding. Whatever Comcast offers, Disney is "sure to counterbid"( WSJ.com, 6/13 ). Comcast "would argue" that its nine NBC-operated RSNs "mostly don’t overlap" with any Fox RSNs that would be acquired. But if pressed, sources said that Comcast "would be willing to sell enough networks to satisfy regulators" ( N.Y. TIMES, 6/13 ).

Today's Back Pages....

The Morning Buzz offers today's back page sports covers from some of North America's major metropolitan tabloids:

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The path is to keep making River grow in all dimensions, so that participating in the Club World Cup isn't an arrival point but rather another step in a sustained project to consolidate River among the great clubs of the world.
-- River Plate Secretary Stefano Di Carlo, on the impact the Club World Cup can have on the popularity of the Argentine Primera Division club.
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