Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Liabilities Accrued, Current

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Number of putative class action complaints filed in a period.

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Percentage added to the Federal Reserve discount rate used to compute accrued interest on merger consideration related to dissenting shareholders.

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Number of shares of common stock outstanding. Common stock represent the ownership interest in a corporation.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02(29))
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=84159872&loc=d3e21463-112644

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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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The total number of new claims filed pertaining to a loss contingency during the period.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 450
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=82911808&loc=d3e14435-108349

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Contingencies (Narrative) (Details) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
	Aug. 30, 2016	Mar. 16, 2017 plaintiff	Jun. 30, 2018 USD ($) shares	Mar. 31, 2018 USD ($)
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Dissenting shareholders' liability			$ 885.2	$ 869.3
Interest Rate, Percentage Spread on Federal Reserve Discount Rate			5.00%
Contingencies, putative class action complaints filed, number	7
Petitions for appraisal filed \| plaintiff		5
Starz Dissenting Shareholders \| Starz
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Outstanding equity interests (in shares) \| shares			22.5
Dissenting shareholders' liability			$ 885.2