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Bob Iger’s Fire Sale: The Fate of ESPN, ABC, and Hulu

The Town with Matthew Belloni

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The Hearst Family's Interest in ESPN

Hearst still owns a chunk of ESPN. If you're Disney and you assume that you still want to keep majority control, right? So you're talking about shopping up to 30% in ESPN. That's something that could appeal to a financial institution, but it doesn't sound like that's what Bob Iger's interested in. But Apple and Amazon, they'll take minority stakes and key suppliers or parts of their kind of infrastructure ecosystem.

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