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HereвЂ™s a closer look at what the monolithic Disney now has at its disposal. Disney will control the rights to the real future of all of these properties: streaming distribution.

#21ST CENTURY FOX LOGO TV#

On the TV side, 21st Century Fox spun out all the assets that Disney didnвЂ™t or couldnвЂ™t acquire - the Fox broadcast network, owned and operated Fox affiliate news stations, the Fox News group (including Fox Business), and the Fox Sports group - into a new stand-alone company called the Fox Corporation (aka вЂњNew FoxвЂќ).Д«ut the way the TV industry works, production studios regularly make shows that air on other networks, so Fox-produced shows could still appear on channels that Disney didnвЂ™t own. Note that in the film segment, the deal includes FoxвЂ™s moviemaking apparatus as well as its distribution business. But an acquisition like this also involves tons of film and television properties, ranging from billion-dollar franchises to things youвЂ™ve never heard of. Over the decades, Fox has produced dozens of box office hits and long-running TV shows - and now, Disney owns them all, adding to its acquisitions of Marvel Entertainment in 2009 and Lucasfilm in 2012.Дisney and Fox confirm major acquisition dealД¬omics fans have focused on the deal allowing Disney to bring a few leftover Marvel characters and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (including the 20th Century Fox fanfare) into the fold. The film studio was founded in 1935 as 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation the company spun up a TV division called TCF Television Productions in 1949. The most obvious one is that Disney has taken control of the biggest back catalogs in entertainment: 20th Century FoxвЂ™s film archive, and 20th Century Fox TelevisionвЂ™s well of TV shows.ДЄs one of the вЂњBig SixвЂќ Hollywood studios, Fox has been around for a long, long time. The massive deal, in which Disney acquired most of FoxвЂ™s film and television production and distribution businesses for $71.3 billion in cash and stock, will have countless, far-reaching implications for the media and entertainment industries. After more than a year of deliberation, The Walt Disney Co.вЂ™s acquisition of 21st Century Fox is official as of 12:02 a.m.

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