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Speculation Continues as Comcast Unveils Plan to Acquire Disney.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2004
By John M. Moran, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 13--If you were alive in the early '60s, you knew Disney.
Its color-drenched "Wonderful World of Disney" TV show helped convince a generation of Americans that black-and-white television was no longer good enough. Disney's movies and theme park virtually defined family entertainment.
So who could have imagined back in, say, 1963 that a community-cable company just starting up in Tupelo, Miss., would one day threaten to swallow Mickey Mouse?
But that's what happened Wednesday when Comcast Corp., today the largest cable TV operator in the United States, unveiled its $54 billion buyout bid for Disney Co., perhaps the world's best-known media...
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