{"id":705,"date":"2011-04-08T12:12:28","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/08\/warner-bidding-ends\/"},"modified":"2011-04-08T12:12:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:12:28","slug":"warner-bidding-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2011\/04\/08\/warner-bidding-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner bidding ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/images\/Various\/warnermusicgroup.bmp\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>Private equity group Yucaipa Companies has reportedly emerged as the frontrunner to buy Warner Music Group as bidding for the company closes.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The company is thought to have offered $3bn (\u00a31.8bn) for the entire company &#8211; $200m (\u00a3122m) more than BMG \u2013 however this has yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported on musicweek.com other contenders for the music group included Leonard Blavatnik\u2019s Access Industries, Sony\/ATV and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skylight.gr\/linkmatches.asp?linkcode=285\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Live Nation<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MacAndrews &amp; Forbes Holdings, Permira, Platinum Equity, Gores Group, Guggenheim Partners and Promthus have also put in offers for all or parts of the company. <\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private equity group Yucaipa Companies has reportedly emerged as the frontrunner to buy Warner Music&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}