Disney’s India sale will follow Murdoch’s logic


A media titan with a weakening grasp on cricket – and not much of a chance to make Bollywood work in its favour – doesn’t have a third magic bullet in India. — Bloomberg

A new class of competition is disrupting legacy media in the world’s most-populous nation, leading to a second change in the ownership of a popular franchise in four years.

Rupert Murdoch was the first to see the threat. Now it’s Bob Iger’s turn.

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