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First, let’s break some Disney news…

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Bill Cohan: Thank you, Matt. It’s quite a story and would more than fill up a stocking this holiday season. Of course, what would really help the “selling” would be a kind word from Justin Bieber with his nearly 114 million Twitter followers. The book seems right up his alley.

Matt: We’ll get to GE and its former ownership of NBC momentarily, but we gotta start with Bob Iger’s return as Disney C.E.O. Hollywood people seem positive Iger will start acquiring companies like he did with...