The morning after the Walt Disney Co. and the NFL formally announced their blockbuster equity-for-assets swap, Bob Iger told investors the deal may well be the biggest thing to hit ESPN in nearly 40 ...

A report from the satirical website "Mousetrap News" has sparked a humorous conversation among football fans with a fabricated story claiming that Disney has purchased the NFL’s 33rd team. The ...

The next time the NFL doesn’t like the way ESPN covers the league, its executives can go right to the boss — by looking in the mirror. The Disney sports-media giant and the massive professional ...

Walt Disney’s ESPN has reached a landmark deal with the National Football League to acquire NFL Network and other media assets from the league in exchange for the NFL taking a 10% equity stake in the ...

'The Disney bundle now becomes incredibly attractive,' one industry expert says Adding NFL RedZone to the ESPN streaming service launching later this month could make a subscription much more ...

If the NFL is to have 10% ownership of ESPN, does that mean the ESPN universe of content platforms will have to increase the attention they pay to NFL football by 10%? And what about ESPN’s coverage ...

The Walt Disney Co. and National Football League Tuesday announced a deal that would give the NFL a 10% stake in Disney's ESPN sports empire and give ESPN ownership of NFL Network and rights to other ...

"We feel terrific about the assets that we'll be getting for the deal," Disney CFO Hugh Johnston said on Yahoo Finance's Opening Bid (video above). Earlier this week, Disney announced its subsidiary ...

Disney DIS is betting big on the NFL to further bolster its sports streaming ambitions. ESPN has signed a new multi-year deal with the NFL that runs through 2030. Under the agreement, ESPN will keep ...

A former Senior Publishing Editor on the Dow Jones Newswires team at The Wall Street Journal, Aaron earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and a Master's in Journalism ...