Five years ago this week… Disney went out on a limb to spite both Rupert Murdoch and Comcast, offering to acquire Sky News in the UK, as well as the 21st Century Fox TV assets. Sky News had been the sticking point that had prevented Fox from acquiring the remaining 61% of Sky in the UK for $16.4 billion (many had feared Fox taking full ownership of Sky, due to Murdoch’s immense influence on UK government elections). Equally, with Comcast already bidding to acquire Sky for $31 billion, Disney’s involvement in the new outlet would massively complicate things. The seemingly impossible puzzle was eventually torn apart, with Comcast acquiring the Sky empire in September 2018. — Comcast-owned Sky is…