Mediagazer: 21st Century Fox Sells Phoenix Stake (Patrick Frater/Variety)

5:40 AM ET, October 23, 2013

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Patrick Frater / Variety:

21st Century Fox Sells Phoenix Stake — Disposal completes Murdoch's broadcast retreat from China — MUMBAI - 21st Century Fox has sold its remaining stake in Chinese-language broadcaster Phoenix Satellite Television. — It announced that subsidiary Star Entertainment Holdings had sold …

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