News/Analysis
DisneyBizJournal.com
January 12, 2019
Here are a few
items worth exploring this weekend regarding Disney selling regional sports
networks; Disney’s Florida land purchases; the return of Lasseter; Disney and a
recession; and population changes and Disney.
Fox Not Interested in Buying Back Regional Sports
from Disney
The Hollywood
Reporter and other new outlets have reported that New Fox isn’t interested in
buying back the regional sports networks Disney must sell under the Fox deal.
However, private equity firms Apollo Global Management, KKR and Blackstone
Group, and Sinclair Broadcast Group reportedly are in the mix.
Disney’s Florida Land Purchases
Disney shelled
out $34 million for two land purchases that apparently will be for “water
conservation and wetland mitigation,” according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Lasseter Back to Head Up Skydance Animation
Amid
controversy, given his departure from Disney and Pixar, John Lasseter is back
to head up Skydance Animation.
Disney and a Recession?
DisneyBizJournal.com
evaluates how worried Disney and the rest of Hollywood should be about a
possible recession.
Population, Age and Disney
As the make-up
of the U.S. population skews older, Disney has responded accordingly.
Ray Keating is the editor, publisher
and economist for DisneyBizJournal.com, and author of the Pastor Stephen Grant
novels, with the three latest books being Reagan Country: A Pastor Stephen Grant Novel, Heroes and Villains: A Pastor Stephen Grant Short
Story and Shifting Sands: A Pastor Stephen Grant Short Story. He can be contacted at raykeating@keatingreports.com.
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