The Mouse is stacking up the cheese with its latest acquisition of the one-third of Hulu it didn’t already own. Comcast came to an agreement with Disney to sell their stake for an expected $8.6 billion. Good deal for Comcast, but how’s it looking for Disney. Sure, now they have a streaming destination for all of their content from ABC that they can sell against subscriptions on Hulu, and Disney+ can be their family and child-safe streaming service. 


The big questions now are:

  1.  How is Disney going to pay for the acquisition?
  2. What are they going to do with ESPN (spin it off as it’s own company, then IPO it would be my recommendation)
  3. And will they double-down on their parks, resorts, and cruise line?

Disney to acquire remaining stake in Hulu for expected $8.6 billion