[(Title)] Comcast dropping out of 21st Century Fox bidding, clearing path for Disney.

Comcast said it is stepping away from its bid for 21st Century Fox.

Comcast说，它正在逐步退出竞购21世纪福克斯的行列。

Comcast is dropping its bid for Fox's entertainment businesses, paving the way for Disney to boost its upcoming streaming service by buying the studios behind "The Simpsons" and X-Men.

Comcast正在放弃对福克斯娱乐业务的收购，为迪斯尼买进《辛普森斯》和《X-Men》后面的电影制片厂从而提升其即将开始的流媒体服务铺平了道路。

Comcast can now focus on its pursuit of European pay-TV operator Sky, a deal that would give the Philadelphia-based cable and media company a larger presence outside the U.S.

Comcast现在可以集中精力追求欧洲付费电视运营商天空新闻，这笔交易将使总部设在费城的有线电视和媒体公司在美国以外有更大的影响力。

The moves come as the media landscape is shifting dramatically. Cable and telecom companies are buying content makers to compete with popular streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon. AT&T bought Time Warner last month for $81 billion.

随着媒体面貌急剧变化，有线电视和电信公司正在购买内容制造商，与Netflix和Amazon等大众流媒体服务竞争，美国电话公司(AT&T)上个月斥资810亿美元购买了TimeWarner。

Comcast had been dueling with Disney for Twenty-First Century Fox, but Comcast said Thursday that it would not raise its $66 billion offer for Fox. The Walt Disney Co. had topped Comcast's bid by offering $71 billion.

Comcast曾在二十一世纪福克斯与迪士尼决斗过，但Comcast周四表示，他不会为福克斯筹得660亿美元的报价。WaltDisney公司(WaltDisneyCo.)出价710亿美元，超过了Comcast的报价。

The U.S. Department of Justice has approved Disney's bid as long as Disney, which owns the national sports network ESPN, sells Fox's 22 regional sports networks. Fox shareholders are set to vote on Disney's offer July 27.

美国司法部批准迪士尼的提议，只要拥有全国体育网ESPN的迪士尼，它就出售福克斯的22个地区性体育网络。 福克斯股东将于7月27日对迪士尼的报价进行投票。

Disney CEO Bob Iger said he was "extremely pleased" with Comcast's announcement.

迪士尼首席执行官鲍勃·伊格尔(BobIger)表示，他对Comcast的公告感到“极为满意”。

"Our focus now is on completing the regulatory process and ultimately moving toward integrating our businesses," he said in a statement.

“我们现在的重点是完成监管程序，并最终走向整合我们的业务，”他在一份声明中说。

If the deal closes, Disney would get a controlling stake in streaming service Hulu and Twentieth Century Fox film and TV studios. Disney owns Marvel Studios, but some characters including the X-Men had already been licensed to Fox.

如果交易结束，迪士尼将会获得流媒体服务Hulu和TwentiethCenturyFox影视和电视工作室的控制权。迪斯尼拥有MarvelStudios，但包括X-Men在内的一些角色已经向福克斯颁发了许可证。

A sale means the X-Men and the Avengers could reunite in future movies. With Fox, Disney would also have a larger library of movies and shows for a streaming service set to debut next year.

销售意味着X-Men和Avenger可以在未来电影中团聚，迪士尼还将拥有更大的电影和节目图书馆，供明年首次推出流媒体服务。

"This was the final chapter in this soap opera," GBH Insights analyst Daniel Ives said.

GBHInsight分析师DanielIves说：“这是该肥皂剧的最后一章。

Ives said Comcast's focus now is on getting Sky "to build a strong beachhead content strategy in Europe."

艾弗斯说，Comcast现在的重点是让天空新闻在欧洲建立一个强大的信道内容战略。

Sky operates in Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the U.K. It has 22.5 million customers, attracted by offerings such as English Premier League soccer and "Game of Thrones."

天空新闻在奥地利、德国、爱尔兰、意大利和英国运营。该公司有2,250万名顾客，被英国英超足球和“施政游戏”等娱乐项目所吸引。

Fox has been trying to buy the 61 percent of Sky it doesn't already own. The idea was to sell Sky to Disney as part of the broader deal. Last week, Comcast made a bid that values Sky at $34 billion, compared with $32.5 billion in Fox's offer.

福克斯一直试图收购其尚未拥有的61%的天空新闻，计划将天空新闻出售给迪士尼，作为更广泛的交易的一部分，上周Comcast出价340亿美元，而福克斯的出价为325亿美元。

Disney said in a regulatory filing last week that Fox might not raise its bid to compete with Comcast's offer, meaning Comcast is likely to end up with Sky and Disney the rest of Fox that's up for sale.

迪斯尼在上周的监管备忘录中说，福克斯可能不会提高与Comcast出价竞争的报价，这意味着Comcast可能最终与Sky和Disney这两个正在出售的福克斯公司剩余业务。

That includes other international properties, including the Star India satellite service. Some Fox businesses, including Fox News Channel and the Fox television network, will remain with media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family.

这包括其他国际财产，在印度的Star有线电视网和欧洲Sky Plc卫星服务的股份，一些福克斯新闻频道和福克斯电视网等将留在媒体大亨鲁珀特·默多克和他的家人。