1) Walt’s Disney buys Pixar for 7.4billion.
2) Newspaper publisher McClatchy acquired rival Knight-Ridder for $6.1 billion
3) Spanish-language television company Univision sold out to a private-equity-led group for $13.6 billion
Summary : 138 media mergers in the United States – worth $48.1 billion from Jan to Aug 2006. Read more.