| Fox Corporation Annual Report 2018 |
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| Form 10-K (NASDAQ:FOXA) |
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| Published: August 13th, 2018 |
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| UNITED STATES |
| SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION |
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| ANNUAL REPORT |
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| ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
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| For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018 |
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| TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 or 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 |
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| Commission file number 001-32352 |
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| TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FOX, INC. |
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| 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York |
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| 26-0075658 |
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| Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (212) 852-7000 |
| Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: |
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| Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share |
| Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share |
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| Name of Each Exchange On Which Registered |
| The NASDAQ Global Select Market |
| The NASDAQ Global Select Market |
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| Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: |
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| Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933. Yes ☒ No ☐ |
| Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Yes ☐ No ☒ |
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| Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 |
| months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes ☒ No ☐ |
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| Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and |
| posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and |
| post such files). Yes ☒ No ☐ |
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| Indicate by a check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the |
| best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. ☐ |
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| Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. |
| See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. |
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| If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial |
| accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐ |
| Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934). Yes ☐ No ☒ |
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| As of December 29, 2017, which was the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, the aggregate market value of the registrant’s Class A |
| Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, held by non-affiliates was approximately $35,990,236,822, based upon the closing price of $34.53 per share as quoted on the NASDAQ |
| Stock Market on that date, and the aggregate market value of the registrant’s Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, held by non-affiliates was approximately |
| $14,817,685,121, based upon the closing price of $34.12 per share as quoted on the NASDAQ Stock Market on that date. |
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| As of August 8, 2018, 1,054,053,200 shares of Class A Common Stock and 798,520,953 shares of Class B Common Stock were outstanding. |
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| Certain information required for Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K is incorporated by reference to the Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. definitive Proxy Statement for its 2018 |
| Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which is intended to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Regulation 14A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as |
| amended, within 120 days of Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.’s fiscal year end. |
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| DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE |
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| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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| BUSINESS |
| RISK FACTORS |
| UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS |
| PROPERTIES |
| LEGAL PROCEEDINGS |
| MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES |
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| MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES |
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| SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA |
| MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS |
| QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK |
| FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA |
| CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE |
| CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES |
| OTHER INFORMATION |
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| DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE |
| EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION |
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| SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER |
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| CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE |
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| Background |
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| PART I |
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| Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., a Delaware corporation, is a diversified global media and entertainment company which currently manages and |
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| reports its businesses in the following four segments: (i) Cable Network Programming; (ii) Television; (iii) Filmed Entertainment; and (iv) Other, Corporate |
| and Eliminations. The activities of Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. are conducted principally in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, |
| Asia and Latin America. For financial information regarding Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.’s segments and operations in geographic areas, see “Item 8. |
| Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.” Unless otherwise indicated, references in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended |
| June 30, 2018 (the “Annual Report”) to “we,” “us,” “our,” “21st Century Fox,” “Twenty-First Century Fox” or the “Company” means Twenty-First Century |
| Fox, Inc. and its subsidiaries. |
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| On June 20, 2018, the Company entered into an Amended and Restated Merger Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Amended and Restated |
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| Merger Agreement”) with The Walt Disney Company (“Disney”) and TWDC Holdco 613 Corp., a newly formed holding company and wholly-owned |
| subsidiary of Disney (“New Disney”), which amends and restates in its entirety the Agreement and Plan of Merger that the Company entered into with |
| Disney in December 2017, pursuant to which, among other things, the Company will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of New Disney pursuant to a |
| merger of the Company with a subsidiary of New Disney (the “21CF Merger”). The Company stockholders may elect to receive $38 per share in either |
| cash or shares of New Disney common stock (subject to adjustment for certain tax liabilities). The overall mix of consideration paid to the Company |
| stockholders will be approximately 50% cash and 50% stock. The stock consideration is subject to a collar, which will ensure that the Company |
| stockholders will receive consideration equal to $38 in value if the average Disney stock price at closing is between $93.53 and $114.32. Prior to the |
| consummation of the 21CF Merger, the Company will transfer a portfolio of the Company’s news, sports and broadcast businesses, including the Fox |
| News Channel, Fox Business Network, FOX Broadcasting Company, Fox Television Stations Group, FS1, FS2, Fox Deportes and Big Ten Network and |
| certain other assets and liabilities into a newly formed subsidiary (“New Fox”) (the “New Fox Separation”) and distribute all of the issued and outstanding |
| common stock of New Fox to the holders of the outstanding shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock (other than |
| holders that are subsidiaries of the Company (shares held by such holders, the “Hook Stock”)) on a pro rata basis (the “New Fox Distribution”). Prior to |
| the New Fox Distribution, New Fox will pay the Company a dividend in the amount of $8.5 billion. New Fox will incur indebtedness sufficient to fund the |
| dividend, which indebtedness will be reduced after the 21CF Merger by the amount of a cash payment paid by Disney to New Fox. As the New Fox |
| Separation and New Fox Distribution will be taxable to the Company at the corporate level, the dividend is intended to fund the taxes resulting from the |
| New Fox Separation and New Fox Distribution and certain other transactions contemplated by the Amended and Restated Merger Agreement (the |
| “Transaction Tax”). The Company will retain all assets and liabilities not transferred to New Fox, including the Twentieth Century Fox Film and Television |
| studios and certain cable and international television businesses, including FX Networks, National Geographic Partners, Regional Sports Networks, Fox |
| Networks Group International and STAR India, as well as the Company’s interests in Hulu LLC (“Hulu”), Sky plc (“Sky”), Tata Sky Limited and Endemol |
| Shine Group. The foregoing proposed transactions are collectively referred to in this report as the “Transaction”. (See Note 3 – Acquisitions, Disposals |
| and Other Transactions to the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements of Twenty-First Century Fox under the heading “Disney |
| Transaction/Distribution of New Fox” for further details). |
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| On June 27, 2018, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it cleared the Transaction. The Company, Disney and |
| the U.S. Department of Justice have entered into a consent decree that allows the Transaction to proceed, while requiring New Disney and the Company |
| to sell the Regional Sports Networks within 90 days following the closing of the Transaction, which consent decree is subject to court approval. At |
| separate special meetings of stockholders on July 27, 2018, the Company’s stockholders adopted the Amended and Restated Merger Agreement, |
| Disney’s stockholders approved the stock issuance, and each company’s stockholders adopted or approved the other proposals voted on at the special |
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| The consummation of the Transaction remains subject to various conditions, including among others, (i) the consummation of the New Fox |
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| Separation, (ii) the receipt of certain tax opinions with respect to the treatment of the Transaction under U.S. and Australian tax laws, and (iii) the receipt |
| of certain regulatory approvals and governmental consents. The Transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of calendar year 2019. |
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| In December 2016, the Company announced it reached agreement with Sky, in which the Company currently has an approximate 39% interest, |
| on the terms of a recommended pre-conditional cash offer by the Company for the fully diluted share capital of Sky which the Company does not already |
| own (the “Sky Acquisition”), at a price of £10.75 per Sky share subject to certain payments of dividends. On July 11, 2018, the Company announced an |
| increased offer price for the Sky Acquisition, of £14.00 per Sky share (approximately $19.9 billion in the aggregate), payable in cash, subject to reduction |
| if certain dividends or other distributions are paid by Sky (the “Increased Offer”). On August 7, 2018, the Company posted an offer document to Sky |
| shareholders in connection with the Increased Offer and announced that it intends to implement the Sky Acquisition by way of a takeover offer within the |
| meaning of Part 28 of the Companies Act 2006 (the “UK Companies Act”) rather than by means of a scheme of arrangement in accordance with Part 26 |
| of the UK Companies Act, which had been the proposed structure of the Sky Acquisition prior to that date. The Company has noted that the deadline for |
| publication of any revised offer document in respect of its Increased Offer is September 22, 2018. |
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| In connection with the Increased Offer, on July 11, 2018, the Company entered into a letter agreement with Disney, pursuant to which Disney |
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| consented to the increased indebtedness that would be incurred by the Company as a result of the Increased Offer. Also, in the event that Disney does |
| not complete the Mergers due to the failure to obtain regulatory approvals or in certain other limited circumstances, Disney has agreed to reimburse the |
| Company for an amount equal to the difference between the cash consideration of £14.00 and £13.00 for each share of Sky purchased by the Company |
| pursuant to the revised terms of the Increased Offer, plus any interest and fees on such amount. |
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| The Sky Acquisition has received unconditional clearance by all competent competition authorities including the European Commission, and has |
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| been cleared on public interest and plurality grounds. In addition, on July 12, 2018, the Sky Acquisition received approval by the UK Secretary of State for |
| Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (the “Secretary of State”), subject to accepted undertakings regarding the divestment of and financial support for Sky |
| News as described in Note 3 – Acquisitions, Disposals and Other Transactions to the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements of Twenty-First |
| Century Fox under the heading “Sky Acquisition”. However, the Sky Acquisition is conditional on, among other things, the Company securing valid |
| acceptances of the Increased Offer in respect of Sky shares which represent 75% or more of the Sky shares that the Company does not own. The |
| Company reserves the right to reduce this acceptance condition to a simple majority of all Sky shares (including those held by the Company). |
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| If the Company does not acquire 100% of Sky pursuant to the Sky Acquisition or another party has not acquired more than 50% of the ordinary |
| shares of Sky, in each case prior to the completion of the Transaction, Disney will be required to make a mandatory offer for all the outstanding ordinary |
| shares of Sky not already owned by the Company within 28 days of the Transaction closing. On July 13, 2018, the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers of |
| the United Kingdom (the "U.K. Takeover Panel"), ruled that any such offer would be required to be made in cash and at a price of £14.00 for each |
| ordinary share in Sky (the "July 13 Ruling"), which ruling was upheld on August 3, 2018 by the U.K. Takeover Panel’s Hearings Committee on appeal. |
| Certain interested parties have appealed the ruling of the Hearings Committee to the Takeover Appeal Board. |
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| On April 25, 2018, Comcast Corporation (“Comcast”) announced a pre-conditional cash offer for the fully diluted share capital of Sky at a price of |
| £12.50 per Sky share which was subject to regulatory preconditions (which have now been satisfied) as well as additional closing conditions. On July 11, |
| 2018, Comcast announced a revised cash offer for the fully diluted share capital of Sky at a price of £14.75 per Sky share that was recommended by the |
| independent committee of Sky’s board of directors. |
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| Any increase in the debt financing for the Sky Acquisition or sale by the Company of its interest in Sky would require Disney’s consent. |
| Completion of the Sky Acquisition is not a condition to either party’s obligation to consummate the Transaction. Completion of the Sky Acquisition will not |
| affect the amount or form of consideration that stockholders of the Company receive in the Transaction. |
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| For further information, see Note 3 – Acquisitions, Disposals and Other Transactions to the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements of |
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| Twenty-First Century Fox under the heading “Sky Acquisition”. |
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| In fiscal 2016, the Company formed National Geographic Partners, LLC with the National Geographic Society to hold the National Geographic |
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| Channels (as defined below) and the publishing, travel and certain other businesses that had been owned by the National Geographic Society. For |
| further information, see Note 3 – Acquisitions, Disposals and Other Transactions to the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements of Twenty-First |
| Century Fox under the heading “National Geographic Partners”. |
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| On November 12, 2014, the Company sold its 100% and 57% ownership stakes in Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland AG (“Sky Deutschland”), |
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| respectively, to British Sky Broadcasting Group plc (subsequently renamed Sky plc) for approximately $8.8 billion in value comprised of approximately |
| $8.2 billion in cash received, net of $650 million of cash paid to acquire Sky’s 21% interest in NGC Network International LLC (“NGCI”) and NGC Network |
| Latin America LLC (“NGCLA” and together with NGCI, “NGC International”), increasing the Company’s ownership stake in NGC International to 73%. In |
| connection with this transaction, the Company participated in Sky’s equity offering in July 2014 by purchasing additional shares in Sky for approximately |
| $900 million and maintained the Company’s approximate 39% ownership interest. As a result of the transaction, Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland ceased |
| to be consolidated subsidiaries of the Company. |
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| On June 28, 2013, the Company completed the separation of its business into two independent publicly traded companies (the “News Corp |
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| Separation”) by distributing to its stockholders shares of the new News Corporation (“News Corp”). The Company retained its interests in a global |
| portfolio of cable, broadcast, film, pay-TV and satellite assets spanning six continents. News Corp holds the Company’s former businesses including |
| newspapers, information services and integrated marketing services, digital real estate services, book publishing, digital education and sports |
| programming and pay-TV distribution in Australia. The Company completed the News Corp Separation by distributing to its stockholders one share of |
| News Corp Class A common stock for every four shares of the Company’s Class A common stock held on June 21, 2013, and one share of News Corp |
| Class B common stock for every four shares of the Company’s Class B common stock held on June 21, 2013. The Company’s stockholders received |
| cash in lieu of fractional shares. Following the News Corp Separation, the Company does not beneficially own any shares of News Corp Class A common |
| stock or News Corp Class B common stock. |
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| In connection with the News Corp Separation, the Company and News Corp entered into a separation and distribution agreement (the “News |
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| Corp Separation and Distribution Agreement”) and certain other related agreements, pursuant to which the Company has agreed to indemnify News Corp |
| and News Corp has agreed to indemnify the Company for certain liabilities. |
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| The Company’s fiscal year ends on June 30 of each year. Through its predecessor, the Company was incorporated in 1979 under the Company |
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| Act 1961 of South Australia, Australia. At June 30, 2018, the Company had approximately 22,400 full-time employees. The Company’s principal |
| executive offices are located at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10036 and its telephone number is (212) 852-7000. The Company’s |
| website is www.21cf.com. The Company’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and |
| amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange |
| Act”), are available, free of charge, through the Company’s website as soon as reasonably practicable after the material is electronically filed with or |
| furnished to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). Such reports may also be obtained without charge from the Company, and |
| paper copies of any exhibits to such reports are also available for a reasonable fee per page charge to the requesting stockholder. Any materials that the |
| Company filed with the SEC also may be read and |
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| copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the |
| Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains an Internet site that contains reports, proxy and information |
| statements, and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC (http://www.sec.gov). |
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| Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements |
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| This document and the documents incorporated by reference into this Annual Report, including “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis |
| of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” contain statements that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 21E of |
| the Exchange Act and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The words “expect,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “predict,” “believe” and similar |
| expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements appear in a number of places and include |
| statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of the Company, its directors or its officers with respect to, among other things, trends |
| affecting the Company’s financial condition or results of operations, the outcome of contingencies such as litigation and investigations, and the expected |
| timing, completion and effects of the Transaction and the Sky Acquisition. Readers are cautioned that any forward-looking statements are not guarantees |
| of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties. More information regarding these risks, uncertainties and other factors is set forth under the |
| heading “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in this Annual Report. The Company does not ordinarily make projections of its future operating results and undertakes |
| no obligation (and expressly disclaims any obligation) to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, |
| future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Readers should carefully review this document and the other documents filed by the Company with |
| the SEC. This section should be read together with the Consolidated Financial Statements of Twenty-First Century Fox and related notes set forth |
| elsewhere in this Annual Report. |
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| BUSINESS OVERVIEW |
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| The Company is a diversified global media and entertainment company, which manages and reports its businesses in the segments described |
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| Cable Network Programming |
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| The Company produces and licenses news, business news, sports, general entertainment, factual entertainment and movie programming for |
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| distribution primarily through cable television systems, direct broadcast satellite operators, telecommunications companies and online video distributors |
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| FOX News and FOX Business Network . FOX News owns and operates the FOX News Channel, the top rated 24/7 all news national cable |
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| channel currently available in approximately 87 million U.S. households according to Nielsen Media Research, as well as the FOX Business Network |
| which is currently available in approximately 84 million U.S. households. |
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| FOX News also produces a weekend political commentary show, FOX News Sunday, for broadcast on local FOX television stations throughout |
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| the United States. FOX News, through its FOX News Edge service, licenses news feeds to FOX Affiliates and other subscribers to use as part of local |
| news broadcasts throughout the United States and abroad. FOX News owns and operates several digital platforms including the FOX News and FOX |
| Business mobile applications, FOX News and FOX Business GO, and FOXNews.com and FOXBusiness.com. FOX News owns and produces the |
| national FOX News Radio Network, which licenses news updates and long form programs to local radio stations and to satellite radio providers. |
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| FSN. Fox Sports Net, Inc. (“FSN, Inc.”) is the largest regional sports network (“RSN”) programmer in the United States, focusing on live |
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| professional and major collegiate home team sports events. FSN, |
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| Inc.’s sports programming business currently consists primarily of ownership interests in 15 RSNs and numerous sub-regional feeds (the “FSN RSNs”) |
| and National Sports Programming, which operates FSN (“FSN”), a national sports programming service. FSN is affiliated with an additional five RSNs |
| that are not owned by FSN, Inc. (the “FSN Affiliated RSNs”). FSN provides the FSN RSNs and the FSN Affiliated RSNs with national sports |
| programming, featuring original and licensed sports-related programming, as well as live and replay sporting events. In the aggregate, the FSN RSNs |
| currently have approximately 60 million subscribers and have rights to telecast live games of 44 of 82 U.S. professional sports teams in Major League |
| Baseball (“MLB”), the National Basketball Association (“NBA”) and the National Hockey League (“NHL”); collegiate conferences; and numerous college |
| and high school sports teams. |
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| FS1. FS1 is a multi-sport national video programming network. During calendar year 2018, FS1 will feature over 830 live events, including |
| college football and basketball, UEFA Champions League, the Bundesliga and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (“FIFA”) World Cup |
| events, Major League Soccer (“MLS”), National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (“NASCAR”), National Hot Rod Association (“NHRA”), United |
| States Golf Association (“USGA”), The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show (“WKC”), Jr. NBA World Championships and Ultimate Fighting |
| Championship (“UFC”), as well as regular season and post-season MLB games. In addition to live events, FS1 features opinion shows such as Skip and |
| Shannon: Undisputed, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, First Things First and Speak for Yourself with Cowherd and Whitlock , original programming from |
| FOX Sports Films and daily studio programming. |
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| FS2 . FS2 is a multi-sport national video programming network featuring live events from UFC and NASCAR, along with college |
| basketball, college football, rugby, Australian Rules Football, world-class soccer and motorsports programming. During calendar year 2018, FS2 expects |
| to feature over 400 live events. |
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| Fox Sports Racing . Fox Sports Racing is a 24-hour video programming service consisting of motorsports programming , including |
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| NASCAR races, events and original programming (with exclusive coverage of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series), NHRA, The Automobile |
| Racing Club of America (“ARCA”) Racing Series, WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Monster Energy Supercross and Monster Jam . Fox Sports |
| Racing is distributed to subscribers in Canada and the Caribbean. |
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| Fox College Sports . Fox College Sports consists of three regionally-aligned video programming networks, FCS Pacific, FCS Central and FCS |
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| Atlantic. Fox College Sports provides live and delayed collegiate events from a variety of collegiate conferences, coaches’ shows and collegiate highlight |
| and magazine-format programming, which primarily comes from the FSN RSNs across the country. |
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| Fox Soccer Plus. Fox Soccer Plus is a premium video programming network showcasing over 350 exclusive live soccer and rugby competitions |
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| including events from Bundesliga, FIFA, Super Rugby League, Australian Football League and the National Rugby League. |
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| Fox Deportes. Fox Deportes is a Spanish-language sports programming service distributed in the United States. Fox Deportes has more than |
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| 3,300 annual hours of live and exclusive programming, including exclusive Spanish language coverage of premier soccer matches (such as Liga MX and |
| Copa MX Tijuana Xolos and Rayados de Monterrey home matches, MLS, Bundesliga, Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana), UFC events, |
| Monster Energy NASCAR Cup, National Football League (the “NFL”) post-season games, including the National Football Conference (“NFC”) |
| Championship game in 2018, and MLB, including regular season, All-Star, National League Championship Series (in 2018) and World Series games. In |
| addition to live events, Fox Deportes also features multi-sport news and highlight shows and daily studio programming, including Central FOX, La Ultima |
| Palabra and FOX Deportes en Vivo . Fox Deportes reaches more than 21 million cable and satellite households in the United States, of which over 6 |
| million are Hispanic. |
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| Big Ten Network . The Company owns an approximate 51% interest in the Big Ten Network (“BTN”), a 24-hour national video programming |
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| service dedicated to the collegiate Big Ten Conference and Big Ten athletics, academics and related programming. BTN televises approximately 520 live |
| collegiate events annually, including football games, regular-season and postseason men’s basketball games, |
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| women’s basketball games and Olympic events (featuring volleyball, soccer, wrestling, gymnastics, ice hockey, softball, baseball, lacrosse and more). In |
| addition to live events, BTN televises a variety of studio shows such as BTN Live, B1G Football & Beyond , B1G Basketball & Beyond , and The B1G |
| Show; Big Ten football and basketball game cut downs; and original programming from BTN Originals such as The Journey, Campus Eats, Big Ten Elite |
| and original documentaries. |
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| FX. FX is a fully distributed general entertainment video programming network that telecasts original series, as well as acquired television series |
| and motion pictures. FX’s original programming lineup for the 2018-2019 season includes the critically acclaimed American Horror Story, Better Things, |
| Legion and Snowfall, as well as the first seasons of Mayans MC and What We Do in the Shadows. FX showcases the broadcast/basic cable premieres |
| of theatrical motion pictures, which in the 2018-2019 season will include Get Out, Logan, The Fate of the Furious, The Secret Life of Pets, X-Men |
| Apocalypse, Jason Bourne, Trolls, Bad Moms, Hidden Figures and Spider-Man: Homecoming. |
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| FXX. FXX is a general entertainment video programming network aimed primarily at young adults. FXX currently reaches over 86 million U.S. |
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| households according to Nielsen Media Research. FXX’s line-up includes current and past season episodes of the comedy series Archer and It’s Always |
| Sunny in Philadelphia and current season episodes of You’re the Worst . FXX also has the exclusive cable rights to air all 29 seasons (including 639 |
| episodes) of The Simpsons. |
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| FXM. FXM is a general entertainment video programming network which splits its programming into two day parts. From 3AM to 3PM, the |
| network airs films from the historic library of Twentieth Century Fox, uncut and commercial free. From 3PM to 3AM, the network utilizes FX’s roster of box |
| office blockbuster modern day films. Also featured throughout both day parts are documentaries and original series that explore the moviemaking |
| process from script to screen. |
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| National Geographic Partners. The Company holds a 73% controlling interest in National Geographic Partners, LLC (“NGP”) which includes NGC |
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| Network US, LLC, which produces and distributes the National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild and Nat Geo Mundo video programming services |
| (collectively, the “National Geographic Channels”). NGP also operates Nat Geo branded publishing and travel businesses in the United States and |
| various international markets. NGSP, Inc., a subsidiary of National Geographic Society, holds the remaining interest in NGP. |
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| The National Geographic Channels air non-fiction, scripted and documentary programming on such topics as natural history, adventure, science, |
| exploration and culture. National Geographic Channel currently reaches close to 90 million households in the United States, Nat Geo Wild reaches close |
| to 60 million households in the United States and Nat Geo Mundo reaches more than 3.3 million Hispanic households in the United States according to |
| Nielsen Media Research. |
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| NGP also produces and distributes the National Geographic Channel, the Nat Geo Adventure channel, the Nat Geo Wild channel and the Nat |
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| Geo Music channel in various international markets. The National Geographic Channel is currently shown in approximately 45 languages and in |
| approximately 170 countries. In fiscal year 2018, the Company launched a new channel, National Geographic Kids, in Latin America. |
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| Baby TV. The Company owns a 50.1% equity interest in Baby TV, a 24-hour channel dedicated to infants and toddlers under three years old. The |
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| Baby TV channel is currently shown in more than 100 countries, including the United States. |
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| Digital Distribution. The Company also distributes programming through its Fox-branded and network-branded websites and applications and |
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| licenses programming for distribution through the websites and applications of cable television systems, direct broadcast satellite operators, |
| telecommunications companies and online video distributors. The Company’s websites and applications provide live and/or on-demand streaming of |
| network-related programming primarily on an authenticated basis to allow video subscribers of the Company’s participating distribution partners to view |
| Company content via the Internet. Such websites and applications currently include: the website FoxSportsgo.com |
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| and the application Fox Sports Go, which offer live and on-demand streaming of both broadcast and cable network sports programming; the website |
| BTN2Go.com and the application BTN2Go, which offer live and on-demand streaming of BTN programming; and the websites fxnetworks.com and |
| natgeotv.com and the applications FXNOW and NATGEOTV, which offer live streaming of FX networks feeds and National Geographic feeds, |
| respectively, and on-demand streaming of current season episodes of shows telecast on the FX and National Geographic networks, respectively. In |
| addition, the website FXnetworks.com and the application FXNOW, offer on-demand access to movies, prior season episodes of FX original series, and |
| all prior season episodes of The Simpsons in an immersive interactive area of the website and application called “Simpsons World”. |
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| Fox Networks Group (“FNG”) International. FNG operates, develops and distributes internationally (outside of the U.S. market) factual, sports, |
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| lifestyle, movie and general entertainment channels in various countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, including Fox |
| Channel, Fox Life, FX, Fox Crime, FOX Traveller, the Voyage Channel, 24 Kitchen, Fox Sports, National Geographic Channel, Nat Geo Wild and Nat |
| Geo Kids as well as Chinese language television programming targeted at Chinese-speaking audiences in Asia, including STAR Chinese Movies and |
| STAR Chinese Channel. FNG also operates, develops and distributes internationally Fox-branded nonlinear services, websites and applications known |
| as Fox+, Fox Premium, or Fox Play, depending on the region or service. |
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| FNG Latin America. FNG Latin America distributes basic television channels as well as premium pay television channels which are under the |
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| Fox Premium brand in Latin America. The Fox Premium channels primarily feature Twentieth Century Fox theatrical motion pictures and series (except |
| in Brazil, where the Fox Premium channels only feature series) and those of other studios, dubbed in Spanish or Portuguese and/or in English with |
| Spanish or Portuguese subtitles. The Fox Premium streaming service was launched in Mexico and Brazil as a standalone service available to |
| subscribers without the need to subscribe to a pay television service and such service will subsequently be launched in other countries throughout Latin |
| America. In addition to the existing Fox Premium standalone streaming service, the Fox+ standalone streaming service was launched in February 2018 |
| in Brazil and Mexico. The Fox+ service consists of the Fox Premium streaming service and the Fox Basic streaming service. The Fox Basic standalone |
| streaming service will be launched during the second half of calendar year 2018 in Mexico and Brazil. In addition to traditional means of distribution, |
| content distribution occurs via internet protocol television (“IPTV”) and as an additive, authenticated, Internet-delivered service by traditional distributors |
| of the linear networks. |
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| FNG owns and operates the Fox Sports networks in Latin America. FNG distributes Spanish-language sports programming services in Latin |
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| America (other than Brazil), which feature local and international soccer events (including Copa Libertadores de América and UEFA Champions League), |
| motorsports programming (including NASCAR, Formula 1, and World Rally Championship), combat sports (including UFC, Premier Boxing Champions, |
| and World Wrestling Entertainment (“WWE”)), and also feature U.S. sports leagues (such as NFL and MLB). In August 2017, FNG launched the premium |
| sports pay television service Fox Sports Premium in Argentina, which airs the matches of the professional football league in Argentina. In Brazil, FNG |
| distributes Fox Sports Brazil, which features Portuguese-language sports programming services specifically geared to the Brazilian audience. Such |
| programming services in Brazil also feature local and international soccer events (including Copa Libertadores de América and La Liga), motorsports |
| programing (including NASCAR and World Rally Championship), combat sports (including WWE and Premier Boxing Champions), and the U.S. sports |
| league MLB. |
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| FNG Europe and Africa. FNG Europe and Africa distributes more than 150 basic television channels and premium sports channels, including |
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| Fox, Fox Crime, Fox Life and Fox Sports, in Europe and Africa. It also operates and distributes a free-to-air channel in Turkey. In addition to traditional |
| means of distribution, content distribution occurs via IPTV, through mobile operators, and on an authenticated basis through Internet service providers |
| (“ISPs”) and other subscription video-on-demand (“SVOD”) services, including Fox+, Fox Play and NG+ in several countries. |
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| FNG owns a controlling 51% ownership stake in Eredivisie Media & Marketing CV (“EMM”), a media company that holds the collective media |
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