 As of 2009, DMX had originally applied to merge with Fort Mill, South Carolina competitor Muzak Holdings LLC, with the resultant combined entity sold to a third-party buyer.Reportedly, Mood Media of Canada had been heavily courted since the beginning, but the combination of the United States Department of Justice's second request for information on the merger, and the bankruptcy filing by Muzak disrupted that original merger.Instead, on Thursday, March 24, 2011, Mood Media themselves announced that they would be buying Muzak in a $345 million deal, and then a year later, Mood Media also announced their acquisition of the original DMX company which had courted them three years earlier on March 19, 2012 in a deal valued at $86.1 million .