As a Comcast stock holder, I can tell you that they have the capital ready to go in, the offer is probably going to be made on Wednesday. And as somebody with a lot of experience in this, the obvious option for not only the Murdoch family but also the stockholders who controlled the majority of the voting shares would be to take the all-cash offer.

The only reason not to would be potential regulatory hurdles. And Comcast is offering a $2.5billion severance in case the deal doesn't pass government scrutiny. Comcast is confident that the acquisition would be approved or they wouldn't be putting themselves in a position to be the most over-leveraged company in history.