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Published in TZ Latest News 10 October, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff

CEO Bewkes needs to show Time Warner better alone than with Murdoch

Ten years ago, Walt Disney Co, having fended off a hostile bid from Comcast, had to make a case why it was better off as an independent company. Disney’s shares have soared more than 250 percent since. Now, Time Warner Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bewkes faces a similar moment of reckoning after rejecting a bid for $85 a share from Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox. Bewkes and other top brass will be under pressure at a meeting with analysts and investors next Wednesday to show they can repeat Disney’s magic.