Disney profit slumps as TV weighs on film success
By Bloomberg
11 May 2016 |
4:59 pm
Rich Greenfield, media and telecom analyst at BITG, examines second-quarter results from Walt Disney Co. as the company fell short of profit estimates on an earnings decline in television.
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