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...York where the Eagles performed to celebrate Wal-Mart's commitment to environmental sustainability, then we opened Bobby with a star-studded premiere in Hollywood. We've taken periodic odysseys across America and internationally to build partnerships with RAI Television in Italy and TF1 in France and ARD in Germany. We're laying down an infrastructure...
...headlines. Last week, one of the firm's sales managers was arrested on allegations of taking up to $100,000 in bribes from an east German supplier for funneling orders its way. So far, the executive hasn't commented. Even the media are tainted. In July, public television network ARD sacked two of its top sports editors who, prosecutors say, had taken fees from organizers of minor sporting events in exchange for coverage. Despite these high-profile cases, corruption watchdogs say Germany is still pretty clean. "Corruption hasn't become more frequent," says Ludolf von Wartenberg, director general...
...Dutch and Irish governments that the funding of their state channels could be illegal. Her signal was clear - their "current financing system is no longer in line with E.U. rules." These "preliminary views" arose from complaints by commercial rivals that some website services of the state-owned German channels ARD...
...live matches from Germany's first division soccer league over the DISH Network satellite system. Its target audience: the estimated 800,000 German speakers in the U.S., German corporations, and hotel chains catering to Germans on the road. ProSieben is the first such private effort; German public networks ARD and ZDF, as well as state-run Deutsche Welle, are already there. "The market for ethnic TV in the U.S. is growing and we want to be part of it," says Hans Fink, the channel's manager. If it works, he says, Welt will expand into Canada, Latin America and anywhere...
...that were not enough, there are entrenched telecom monopolies, local media companies and wary regulators to contend with. Malone learned that lesson the hard way earlier this year in Germany, when powerful private broadcasters like RTL and public providers such as ARD and ZDF did their best to block him. "A scheme in which one player controls the heart of TV's infrastructure is against open competition," says Didier Bellens, CEO of RTL Group, which is controlled by Bertelsmann. Given that kind of opposition, it wasn't surprising that after spending months negotiating a deal to purchase six of Deutsche...