{"id":2897,"date":"2013-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvasia\/2013\/10\/21\/21st-century-fox-exits-phoenix\/"},"modified":"2013-10-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T00:00:00","slug":"21st-century-fox-exits-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvasia\/21st-century-fox-exits-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"21st Century Fox Exits Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tHONG KONG: 21st Century Fox has sold its remaining 12.15-percent interest in Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings to private-equity firm TPG.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn March, the company, through its Star Entertainment Holdings subsidiary, sold a 5.28-percent stake in Phoenix for $92 million. Phoenix operates a portfolio of Mandarin-language channels, including Phoenix Chinese Channel, Phoenix Movie Channel and Phoenix InfoNews Channel. It was launched in 1996 as a joint venture between News Corporation and Liu Changle. 21st Century Fox no longer holds any shares in Phoenix.<\/p>\n
\n\tRupert Murdoch has been scaling back on Chinese investments over the last few years. Back in 2010, the company shed a controlling stake in STAR China business to China Media Capital (CMC), a government-backed private-equity fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HONG KONG: 21st Century Fox has sold its remaining 12.15-percent interest in Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings to private-equity firm TPG. In March, the company, through its Star Entertainment Holdings subsidiary, sold a 5.28-percent stake in Phoenix for $92 million. Phoenix operates a portfolio of Mandarin-language channels, including Phoenix Chinese Channel, Phoenix Movie Channel and Phoenix …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n