据知情人士透露，福克斯以220亿美元收购Roku的交易有望通过司法部审查，并将在一项同意令下推进，尽管特朗普总统的一位右翼盟友曾试图阻挠该交易。
Fox’s $22 billion acquisition of Roku is poised to clear Justice Department scrutiny and move forward under a consent decree, according to people familiar with the deliberations, despite efforts from a right-wing ally of President Donald Trump to hold up the deal.
目前尚不清楚同意令将包含哪些内容，或正在考虑何种条款。知情人士称，司法部有可能改变立场。福克斯拒绝置评。
It’s unclear what a consent decree would entail, or what terms are being considered. It’s possible the DOJ could change course, the people said. Fox declined to comment.
司法部副部长斯坦利·伍德沃德也拒绝就该交易置评。他在一份声明中表示：“不过，我们可以确认，在特朗普总统领导下，司法部将继续把全美经济中所有美国人的负担能力作为优先事项。”
Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward also declined to comment on the deal. “However, we can affirm that this DOJ under President Trump’s leadership will continue to prioritize affordability for all Americans across our economy,” he said in a statement.
这笔交易将把福克斯的新闻和体育内容帝国与Roku占主导地位的连接电视操作系统结合起来，令竞争对手担忧福克斯会偏袒自有内容。Roku的免费广告支持频道也在争夺观众和内容方面与福克斯旗下的Tubi构成竞争。福克斯首席执行官拉奇兰·默多克曾表示，他的“预期”是分别运营这两项业务，同时跨平台销售广告。
The deal, which would unite Fox’s content empire of news and sports with Roku’s dominant connected-TV operating system, had worried rivals who fear that Fox will favor its own content. Roku’s free, ad-supported channel also competes for viewers and content with Tubi, which Fox owns. Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch has said his “expectation” is to run the two businesses separately while selling advertising across them.
《Semafor》于9月首次报道反垄断监管机构正在扩大对该交易的调查，几天后两家公司确认了更深入的调查，即所谓的“二次请求”。《Semafor》随后报道，这种加强审查部分源于Newsmax大股东克里斯·拉迪的施压，他自称是特朗普的知己，并与福克斯所有者鲁伯特·默多克有长期恩怨。
Semafor first reported in September that antitrust regulators were widening the inquiry into the deal, days before the two companies confirmed the deeper probe, known as a “second request.”That enhanced scrutiny came in part because of pressure from Newsmax majority owner Chris Ruddy, who bills himself as a Trump confidant and has had a long-running spat with Fox owner Rupert Murdoch, Semafor later reported.
拉迪曾在1990年代短暂担任默多克旗下《纽约邮报》记者，因流媒体播放其媒体资产的权限问题，已与福克斯争执了一年多。
Ruddy, briefly a reporter for Murdoch’s New York Post in the 1990s, has been feuding with Fox for more than a year over streaming access to his media assets.
默多克阵营此前曾将 Newsmax 的举动斥为“试图通过诉讼摆脱自身的竞争失败”，而默多克本人已与特朗普共进晚餐不止一次。但显然，拉迪一直是默多克家族的心头之患。投资者担心，由于拉迪的努力，福克斯与 Roku 的交易可能会受阻。
Murdoch’s camp has previously dismissed Newsmax’s efforts as a bid to “sue their way out of their own competitive failures,” and Murdoch himself has dined with Trump more than once. But it’s clear that Ruddy has been a headache for the Murdoch clan. Investors have fretted about the possibility that Fox’s deal for Roku could get tied up as a result of Ruddy’s efforts.
在福克斯解雇商业主播玛丽亚·巴蒂罗莫后，这种担忧加剧了。此前，内部调查指控她向特朗普政府泄露了内部网络信息和通讯内容，但她的律师对此提出异议。
Those worries were exacerbated after Fox ousted business anchor Maria Bartiromo following an internal investigation into allegations she leaked internal network information and communications to the Trump administration, a claim her lawyers have disputed.
但如果交易达成，这将进一步证明默多克这个名字在华盛顿依然拥有相当大的分量。
But if the deal goes through, it’s more evidence that the Murdoch name still carries a fair amount of weight in Washington.