A week into the new era at Disney following the completion of the Fox asset acquisition, the company’s new top TV executive, Walt Disney Television chairman Peter Rice, addressed the combined company’s TV troops in a town hall meeting on the Disney lot, which was live streamed to all employees from Los Angeles, New…

A stunning and already contested $179 million arbitration award in the Bones profit participation lawsuit may ripped into Fox's Peter Rice and Dana Walden today. Yet, the CEO who is about to formally become their new boss just did the Hollywood equivalent of Jay Z's "Dirt off Your Shoulder."

"Peter Rice and Dana Walden…

I was walking on the Fox lot not long ago when my companion, a TV producer, pointed to a figure just ahead of us. "That's Peter Rice," he said. "Notice there's no shadow."

Rice's shadow was in fact looming behind him, but I got the joke. Rice, the newly anointed most powerful man in television, is by design so low prof…

Two days after the announcement of the new Disney-ABC leadership made the prospect of the pending Disney acquisition of Fox assets very real, Fox leaders Peter Rice and John Nallen held a Town Hall meeting to reassure the company rank and file. Rice, President of 21st Century Fox and Chairman and CEO of Fox Networks…

Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of most of the assets for 21st Century Fox is marrying two very distinct brands and two very different corporate cultures. The company, led by chairman and CEO Bob Iger, took the first step in the process today, announcing the top Fox TV executives who will make the move to Disney…

Ending months of speculation and weeks of deal-making, Disney this morning officially announced the top TV executives from 21st Century Fox who will transition to Disney following its $71.3 billion acquisition of key Fox assets. As expected, the list includes 21st Century Fox president and Chairman & CEO of Fox…

The big bidding war for Fox ended this morning when Comcast pulled out, handing the prized 21st Century Fox assets to Disney. With the Disney-Fox deal already assured of regulatory…

21st Century Fox president Peter Rice held the first of two town hall meetings on the lot today to reassure Fox Networks Group staffers amid jitters related to the pending acquisition by The Walt Disney Co. of key Fox assets, including 20th Century Fox movie studio, 20th Century Fox Television TV studio and FX…

Fox Networks CEO Peter Rice said that the $3.3 billion the network paid for NFL Thursday night games over the next five years doesn’t represent an overpayment.

Speaking at the Code Media conference, Rice responded to a question on whether paying 30 percent more per game for the rights in the face of the NFL’s…

Fox has locked up rights to Thursday Night Football for five years, stealing the ball from NBC and CBS and breaking with the NFL’s previous one-year-at-a-time approach to the night’s prime-time rights.

For the broadcast network, the games will be a critical piece of programming as it prepares for life without its studi…

EXCLUSIVE: As anxiety rises at 21st Century Fox today following the formal announcement this morning of the sweeping $66 billion acquisitions by The Walt Disney Company, Peter Rice has just sent out an email to staff notifying them of three town halls to be held today.

In the correspondence, which you can see in full b…

21st Century Fox has promoted the Fox Networks Group chairman and CEO Peter Rice to president. He will continue to serve in his Fox Networks Group role, in which he oversees ox Broadcasting Company, Fox Sports, FX Networks, National Geographic, 20th Century Fox TV and Fox Networks Group Latin America, Europe and Asia…