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Media and entertainment
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Acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2019

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The Adjacency Expansion · Growth & Portfolio
Disney Outbid Comcast for Fox to Control Hulu — and Got a Deal That Was 67% Dying Cable TV
Everyone says Disney bought Fox for the X-Men and Avatar. The 2017 filing says otherwise: the prize was control of Hulu and a streaming pivot. Then Comcast bid $65B, Disney countered at $71.3B, and ~67% of what it actually bought was dying cable TV.
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