It looks like Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox and its various film and television assets has reached another snag in the international community.
Last week, word came out that Brazil was causing some delay in the merger between the Mickey Mouse House and Fox because of the country's antitrust body raising concerns over the deal between the companies. This week it seems like Disney is facing another hurdle in Mexico with regulators questioning how the merger might affect the country's cable market, especially because of the Mickey Mouse House's potential to increase its sports content.
Mexican newspaper El Universal details Mexico's concern over the merger between Disney and Fox, stating that the deal would allow Disney to own almost 30% of the programming in the sports market leaving out companies like Warner Brothers with only 15.12% and Universal with 11.45% of the industry.
This concern was also expressed in the US, with the merger between Disney and Fox receiving conditional approval by the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission. The condition for the deal was for Disney to sell the regional sports network that it would acquire from Fox, and while Disney has been busy looking for regional sports networks to find a buyer to purchase all 22 networks it would gain from the deal, it still hasn't found any.
Hopefully, Disney finds a way to deal with this snag so that the acquisition will continue on smoothly. Marvel fans have been looking forward to the acquisition, mostly because the merger would mean the arrival of the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and all of Fox's other mutant properties, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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