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Stock Issued During Period, Shares, Exchanged for Investments

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This item represents the cost of equity securities, which are categorized neither as held-to-maturity nor trading, net of adjustments for other-than-temporary impairments recognized in earnings (less any cumulative-effect adjustments recognized, as defined), and fair value hedge accounting adjustments, if any.

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Fair value at acquisition-date of the equity interest in the acquiree held by the acquirer, immediately before the acquisition date for businesses combined in stages.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (g)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=65885119&loc=d3e1392-128463

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In a business combination achieved in stages, this element represents the amount of gain recognized by the entity as a result of remeasuring to fair value the equity interest in the acquiree it held before the business combination.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (g)(2)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=65885119&loc=d3e1392-128463

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Investments (Available-for-sale Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions			3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Dec. 08, 2016	Mar. 27, 2015	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015	Mar. 31, 2016
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]
Cost basis							$ 159
Gain recognized on Starz available-for-sale securities			$ 20	$ 0	$ 20	$ 0
Starz
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]
Issuance of common shares related to investments, shares		4,967,695
Starz Series A Common Stock \| Starz
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]
Shares received in exchange (in shares)		2,118,038
Starz Series B Common Stock \| Starz
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]
Shares received in exchange (in shares)		2,590,597
Starz
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]
Fair value	$ 179
Cost basis	$ 159
Gain recognized on Starz available-for-sale securities			$ 20		$ 20