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...Ilaria Pasotti, a researcher who has studied the organisation’s early archives, said the topics under discussion reflected the concerns of European bankers throughout the second half of the 20th century....
...Walden, 59, arrived in 2019 following Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox, where she was chief executive of the company’s television group....
...Radio was the backbone of multiple media empires across the 20th century....
...AMC, then considered an also-ran network, produced Mad Men and Breaking Bad. FX, owned at the time by 20th Century Fox, countered with their own cutting-edge series: Atlanta and The Americans....
...Trian had called Disney’s succession planning process “broken”, attacked cost inefficiencies in the streaming business, and criticised the group’s 2018 acquisition of 21st Century Fox....
...This is what they did in 2018, selling 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets to Disney and its Sky European pay-TV business to Comcast, both for what are generally agreed to be very good prices....
...In fact, Star Wars and Avatar only went to Disney in 2019, with the acquisition of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox....
...This could be especially helpful for entertainment groups carrying heavy debt loads, such as Warner Bros Discovery and Paramount....
...Star Wars would be made instead at 20th Century Fox. Sometimes you take the next cab on the rank. Warner died in September 1978....
...As part of the shake-up, Buffini has also appointed three seasoned private sector executives to the commercial board: Gary Newman, chief executive of Fox Television group before it was acquired by Disney...
...“I did think, at the time, that he was the essence of everything that was crazy about late 20th-century capitalism,” Harron says....
...The stores, filled with midcentury furniture and occasional capsules by the famed 20th-century French jeweller Line Vautrin (and a James Turrell light installation in the London shop), are already an excellent...
...During his tenure, he transformed Disney through acquisitions — including Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox — that left it holding a collection of the most valuable franchises in the entertainment...
...This is a vastly accelerated form of the analogue bank runs we witnessed in the 20th century, when people got news from TV or newspapers and then physically queued outside banks for hours....
...In The Big Myth, historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway shine a harsh, forensic light on just how corporate America has redefined these roles since the early 20th century....
...20th Century Fox — some of the most valuable franchises in the entertainment business....
...Built up by Logan over decades, it chiefly comprises entertainment, news and amusement park divisions. But what is Waystar worth and how is it run?...
...Iger’s $71bn acquisition of 20th Century Fox from Rupert Murdoch in 2019, was a rushed deal that stuck Disney with $42bn in debt, limiting its ability to grow, the Trian boss argues....
...Exhibit A in Peltz’s case is Iger’s $71bn acquisition of 20th Century Fox from Rupert Murdoch in 2019, which the investor has portrayed as a rash boom-time deal that saddled Disney with $42bn in debt, limiting...
...Its once legendary hockey team has struggled to revive its mid-20th-century glory, and some argue that even its cricket team should be better, given the popularity of the sport....
...But what’s happened, basically, is that in the latter half of the 20th century and, you know, the beginning of the 21st century, the franchise valuations of all these clubs have gotten so much richer because...
...Fellowes is best known for his rose-tinted 19th- and 20th-century evocations of the British aristocracy in series such as Downton Abbey and Belgravia....
...During Iger’s 11-month absence from Disney, some analysts and old colleagues have taken a dimmer view on parts of his legacy — especially the $71.3bn purchase of 20th Century Fox from Rupert Murdoch in 2019...
...Between them these three men had a century of experience in the cable business — and no shortage of views on what was best for CNN....
...Disney had acquired those rights when it bought 21st Century Fox from Murdoch in 2019....
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