Five years ago this week… Comcast made an all-cash bid to buy 21st Century Fox, showing its desperation to prevent Disney from becoming a Netflix-esque streaming superpower, even though Comcast had already accepted the latter’s offer. The proposed purchase was seen as certain to plunge Comcast into an alarming amount of debt, with the giant recruiting investment banks to fund the $60 billion offer. Despite Comcast’s attempts for IP, it was unable to prize 21st Century Fox from Disney, instead settling for the acquisition of Sky later that year. — Disney+ saw its global subscriber base shrink by 4 million users in Q1 2023, totaling 157.8 million. This was driven by an exodus in India, where 4.6 million users…