1. Because Fox won't give it to them unless they buy the entire suite of businesses.
2. If you go back to the deal, Universal was willing to give up everything but the international assets including majority control of Hulu.
3. WSJ put out Comcast statement that they were willing to split with Disney and let them have everything but international.
4. The fact they gettting more partners to specifically split assets with them getting international says it really isn't about the domestic assets.
Fox is a company where they make most of the money overseas not in the US. That's why Comcast wants them.
Well, isn't that just amazing because that still doesn't answer my question! Why bother then? Comcast would not bid for Fox in the first place and only just compete with Fox and Disney for the foreign assets, let alone the entire drama back all the way at the beginning of the bid in November 2017. Also, all WSJ did is put out an analysis opinion, not a fact. We really don't know at this point, even though it's already the beginning of July, So I'm not going to jump to conclusions at this point until we get the actual confirmation of whether Comcast still bids for Fox's entire assets or drops out.