Acquired · Aug 10Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire
It bid $54 billion in stock in 2004, mainly to get ESPN's carriage-fee leverage out of its way. A 43% protest vote stripped Eisner of the chair and Comcast withdrew weeks later.
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A cable and media giant that made a hostile bid for Disney.
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