The wooing of Rupert Murdoch

Whether Comcast gets 21st Century Fox or Disney gets it, the game is about to change irrevocably for Star India

Rupert Murdoch, 87, must be very flattered. It isn’t every day that you have some of the world’s largest media firms fighting over a business you’ve built over six decades. 

On June 13, the $84.5 billion Comcast Corporation, the world's second largest media firm (Alphabet, Google’s owner is the largest) offered $65 billion, in cash, to buy the assets that the Murdoch-controlled 21st Century Fox was on the verge of selling to The Walt Disney Company. 

Within a week, on June 20, the $55.1 billion Disney announced that it had signed an amended acquisition agreement with 21st Century Fox. This