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21st Century Fox was an American mass media corporation with assets including 20th Century Fox, FX Networks, and National Geographic Partners. It was hived off from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in 2013, allowing investors to value the cable, movie and pay TV investments more highly than the traditional news media assets. In 2017, most of its assets - including the rights to TV series such as The Simpsons and film franchises including the X-Men and Fantastic Four superhero IPs - were acquired by Disney, with the remainder, consisting of the Fox and MyNetworkTV networks, and Fox's national broadcasting, TV stations, news and sports operations, being separated into Fox Corporation.
Gautam Adani and Mukesh Ambani are competing in a tough market vying for more than a billion viewers; an Ambani venture received US$1.8 billion, led by James Murdoch; Adani bought a stake in a former partner of Bloomberg.
From Stars Wars and Marvel to the Star content hub, Disney’s regional head Kerwin Lo talks about the streaming service’s offerings ahead of the Hong Kong launch on November 16.
Netflix has Blown Away, Fox has Lego Masters and HBO has The Great Pottery Throw Down: reality TV shows are getting into ‘extreme creativity’, featuring niche skills and bringing in real industry experts.
Industry players and supply chain experts said the shifting of the supply chain model is most likely in the production of essential goods such as food and medical devices.
In a wide-ranging interview, Malcolm Turnbull also discusses Rupert Murdoch’s role in ousting him from office and the use of Twitter by US President Donald Trump.
Murdoch family will create new entity known as Fox after the breaking up of 21st Century Fox.
The US president’s campaign manager decried the ban by CNN and NBC - but had nothing to say about conservative Fox News following suit.
After three rounds of secret bidding on Friday and Saturday, Comcast offered the higher price of nearly US$39 billion
Disney was forced to sweeten its offer last month after Comcast, the largest US cable company, made a US$66 billion bid for Fox’s well-known TV shows and movie franchises
Cable giant Comcast said it would now focus on acquiring European pay TV operator Sky.
The former co-president of Fox News resigned his position amid accusations that he had covered up reports of sexual harassment against other top executives at the network.
Comcast still has time to respond. Fox cancelled a shareholder meeting to vote on the Disney deal that had been planned for July 10.
Disney is bidding for Fox’s entertainment properties, including ‘The Simpsons’, ‘X-Men’ and ‘Deadpool’ – and upped the ante after Comcast bid US$65 billion.
Fox has scheduled the special shareholder meeting for July 10, but said it may postpone the gathering should another ‘event’ require additional time
Actress has played FBI special agent Dana Scully since the television series began in 1993, and says after the latest season beginning in March she will be taking on new roles and challenges