No Surprise, Disney & NBCUniversal Disagree On Hulu Valuation With $5 Billion In The Balance

Disney and NBCUniversal are locked in a dispute about how much the former must pay the latter for absorbing the rest of Hulu. Disney late last year paid Comcast’s NBCU a previously agreed upon floor price of $8.6 billion and both sides had their own bankers calculating how much more, if any, was owed. Not surprisingly, their numbers diverged. Disney’s camp figured it was in the clear, NBCU’s that another $5 billion was due. As provided for in the initial contract, the dispute was handed to a third party, ...