Full year results for 21st Century Fox for the year to June were boosted significantly by the transfer of its satellite broadcast interests in Italy and Germany to part-subsidiary Sky UK. A one-off gain

became an effective subsidiary of News Corporation's Fox Entertainment Group. As competition from cable broadcasters became increasingly intense mid-decade, Murdoch began moves to offload DirecTV once

Disney, Fox and Comcast - are in talks to recruit Time Warner as an equal fourth partner. Warner's television studio is one of the biggest creators of broadcast content in the US, and stronger ties to

marketing partnership now running between PepsiCo and Fox's hit music biz series Empire. In the show, fictional up-and-coming singer Jamal Lyon signed a sponsorship deal with Pepsi two weeks ago, and

21st Century Fox raised its holding in the commercial activities of National Geographic Society with a new jointly owned business. Fox already operates 50/50 joint ventures with the National Geographic

Tomorrowland (Disney) and Fantastic Four (Fox), all grossing under $100m. Several star vehicles - Lions Gate's Mortdecai with Johnny Depp, Warner's Our Brand Is Crisis with Sandra Bullock and Fox's Victor

in 2015 for NBC) and 112.2m viewers (2014 on Fox). The game was also available for the first time on internet-connected boxes including Apple TV, and online streams averaged 1.4m viewers per minute, up

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21st Century Fox. The 84-year-old Rupert Murdoch is to step down as chief executive next week, and his longtime lieutenant Chase Carey, currently COO, will surrender day-to-day operational duties for