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Business Acquisition, Equity Interest Issued or Issuable, Percentage To Be Paid One-Year from Closing

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The number of consecutive trading days immediately preceding the close date, used as the period for the daily weighted average closing price of the common shares.

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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Equity Interested Issued And Issuable, Period For Issuance

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Business Combination, Consideration Transferred, Percentage of Cash Consideration

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Business Combination, Contingent Consideration, Contingency Period

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Weighted average amortization period of finite-lived intangible assets acquired either individually or as part of a group of assets, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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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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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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This element represents the fair value of the noncontrolling interest in the acquiree at the acquisition date.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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The equity interest of noncontrolling shareholders, partners or other equity holders in consolidated entity.

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Acquisitions (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions		6 Months Ended
Acquisitions (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	May 29, 2018	Sep. 30, 2019	Mar. 31, 2019
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Goodwill		$ 2,833.5	$ 2,833.5
3 Arts Entertainment
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Business acquisition, percentage of membership interest acquired	51.00%
Purchase price	$ 166.6
Percent of purchase price paid in cash at closing	50.00%
Period for weighted average closing price (number of consecutive trading days)	20 days
Goodwill	$ 92.7
Finite-lived intangible assets	47.0
Deferred compensation arrangements		$ 38.3
Redeemable noncontrolling interest	$ (15.8)
Period for issuance of equity interests after closing date	1 year
Business combination, contingent consideration, contingency period		5 years
Class B Non-Voting Shares \| 3 Arts Entertainment
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Percent of purchase price paid in Class B non-voting common shares at closing	32.50%
Percent of purchase prince to be paid in Class B non-voting common shares on the one-year anniversary of closing	17.50%
Customer relationships \| 3 Arts Entertainment
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Acquired finite-lived intangible assets, weighted average useful life		12 years
3 Arts Entertainment
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Redeemable noncontrolling interest, ownership percentage held by noncontrolling interest holders	49.00%