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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
24 Mar 2025 Acquired Indian Premier League Cricket
“December 2017, Disney acquires all of 21st Century Fox for (I think) about $70 billion, inclusive of Star, all the operations in India, and this contract.”
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- David Rosenthal
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- belief
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- 24 Mar 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Indian Premier League Cricket
Transcript context
…So we’ve gone from 60/100 to 250 to now to 500 a year. Yup. That happens in the first half of 2017. Then the other shoe drops. December 2017, Disney acquires all of 21st Century Fox for (I think) about $70 billion, inclusive of Star, all the operations in India, and this contract. Now obviously that deal was about way more than just this contract, but this was an important piece of it. It’s so funny that it ends up being 15 years later, 20 years later? Recall all the way back, there was the India subsidiaries of Fox and Disney merged and got the cricket deal pre-IPL, and now you have Disney and Fox globally merging.…
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