My first thought when I saw this news was "hmm, Disney wanted to get
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" (the original
Star Wars film from 1977), since the LucasFilm acquisition deal from a few years back left that film in the hands of Fox perpetually.
The thing with these mega-mergers, including this one, that worries me, is that eventually there will only be one company that basically controls the entire industry such a company represents (similarly to what we have now with Google, Facebook, and Netflix dominating their respective industries). If these mergers are necessary "to stay competitive in a global economy", why was Ma Bell broken up? (Don't give me that crap about how "things were different in the early 1980s when AT&T was broken up", since the economy was already becoming heavily globalized even then. If antitrust laws are obsolete, why has the EU regularly slapped Google with multi-billion Euro fines over the past several years?)
Disney really isn't much better than Comcast, it just lacks the access to infrastructure than Comcast has. You're missing the point entirely about my distaste with Disney's evergrowing consolidation of content under its umbrella.
Not only Disney, but Sinclair Broadcast Group is a major concern among many, since they own and operate a shipload of television stations across the United States (including my local Fox, NBC, and The CW affiliates), and utilize "sidecar" fake companies (Cunningham Broadcasting and Deerfield Media) to skirt FCC-imposed ownership limits. Not to mention radio station groups iHeartMedia (iHeartRadio) and Cumulus, both of which are
dangerously overleveraged, to the point where the latter recently filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy.