Encompass Digital Media to Acquire Ascent Media Corp.’s (ASCMA) Content Distribution Business
Encompass Digital Media, a US-based digital media services provider, today announced it will purchase the global content distribution business of Ascent Media Corp. for approximately $113 million in cash and assumption of about $7 million in debt. The acquisition will create a leading global provider of critical outsourced media services to cable channels, broadcasters, media companies and others. The transaction will also greatly expand Encompass' scale and geographic footprint by combining its core operations in Los Angeles and Atlanta with Ascent's broadcast facilities in New York, Minnesota, Burbank, Singapore and London. The company will benefit from a high quality and…