Discovery and Nickelodeon. The hold-out here is Disney's ABC and its sports strand ESPN, both noticeably absent from Sony's bundle, which also carries a higher than expected pricing of $49.99 per month.

launching an English-language joint venture with Disney as well as more specialised sports strands. The FIFA World Cup was a huge hit for Univision in 2014. The group is expected to raise as much as $

It also operates two Disney-style theme parks in the domestic market - Sanrio Puroland and Harmony Land - as well as restaurants and arcades. The business is still controlled and led by founder and head

Yet it is dwarfed by rivals AT&T, Disney, Comcast or Netflix, each worth between four and eight times as much. As a result, further acquisitions are likely, as ViacomCBS attempts to bulk up its industry

stronger competitor to bulked up media titans like Disney, Comcast, AT&T and Netflix. Aged and bed-ridden tycoon Sumner Redstone is still nominally the controlling shareholder, but all management decisions

put Netflix on level pegging with established giants Disney, Fox and Universal, who also each collected four Oscars. This was the first year that Netflix, Amazon and Hulu all had Oscar nominations, though

inspired by Disney's Little Mermaid, and it works just as effectively. An especially nice touch is that little frisson you feel when the otherwise charming mermaid shows her teeth at around the 1:10 mark.

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4 cable channel operator by ratings after Disney, Comcast and Fox, with around 13% total share. However, share of affiliate fees is much lower. European satellite broadcaster Sky reported solid growth

business it could use that cash to buy either Walt Disney or Comcast outright and still have a $10bn in the bank. Samsung regained the top spot in global smartphones, according to latest figures from