Add-on Acquisition • Media

Ericsson Acquires FYI Television

On January 18, 2016, Ericsson acquired media company FYI Television

Acquisition Context
  • This is Ericsson’s 3rd transaction in the Media sector.
  • This is Ericsson’s 12th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Ericsson’s 1st transaction in Texas.

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M&A Deal Summary

Date January 18, 2016
Target FYI Television
Sector Media
Buyer(s) Ericsson
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target Company

FYI Television

Grand Prairie, Texas, United States
FYI Television, Inc. is a global TV metadata and entertainment image content expert, accumulates and distributes TV entertainment content and linear scheduling data from over 9,000 TV networks daily, aggregating the information into customized formats for various television, mobile, internet and print clients.
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Buyer Overview 1

Buyer

Ericsson

Stockholm, Sweden

Category Company
Founded 1876
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees92,866
Revenue 247.9B SEK (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Ericsson office in Santa Clara, California.
Ericsson office in Santa Clara, California.

Ericsson provides telecommunications equipment and services to mobile and fixed network operators worldwide. It operates through four segments: networks, global services, support solutions, and modems. Ericsson was formed in 1876 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.


Deal Context for Buyer #
Overall 22 of 29
Sector: Media 3 of 3
Type: Add-on Acquisition 18 of 23
State: Texas 1 of 1
Country: United States 12 of 16
Year: 2016 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-10-15 Ericpol

Lodz, Poland

Ericpol is an engineering company provides outsourcing, consulting and integration services, delivers dedicated solutions in the areas of telecommunications, M2M communication (machine to machine), IoT (Internet of Things), applications for the medical, finance and banking sectors, as well as solutions for business.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-04-05 NodePrime

San Francisco, California, United States

NodePrime, Inc. is a hyperscale datacenter management platform that provides multi-vendor hardware control, high-speed scalable timeseries data collection and powerful interfaces for datacenter operators and developers.

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