Additional Financial Information - Components of Other Current Assets Included in Balance Sheets (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Millions		Jun. 30, 2016	Jun. 30, 2015
Assets, Current [Abstract]
Inventory	[1]	$ 218	$ 299
Deferred tax assets		0	63	[2]
Assets held for sale		0	92
Amounts due from 21st Century Fox		55	63
Prepayments and other current assets		240	263
Total Other current assets		$ 513	$ 780

[1] Inventory as of June 30, 2016 and 2015 was primarily comprised of books, newsprint, printing ink, and programming rights.

[2] In fiscal year 2016, the Company early-adopted ASU 2015-17, "Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes", which requires that deferred income tax liabilities and assets be classified as noncurrent in the Consolidated Balance Sheet. As such the requirement under prior guidance which required an entity to separate deferred tax liabilities and assets into a current and non-current amount in the Consolidated Balance Sheet has been eliminated. The prior periods have not been retroactively adjusted as a result of the adoption of ASU 2015-17.