Word: bidness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dozen new affiliates-mostly from CBS -- in some of America's biggest TV markets. And the probe halted Fox's aggressive campaign to recruit still more affiliates, giving the Big Three time to shore up their existing relationships. Murdoch, who became a U.S. citizen as part of his bid for entertainment supremacy, is battling the fcc with legal might and free-market indignation. He sniffs, "I thought this was America, where competition was good...
...shopping binge, even buying the rights to broadcast badminton to the Chinese. Late in 1993 he outbid CBS for the National Football League's National Football Conference games-a package that also lets Fox broadcast the Super Bowl in January 1997. The deal was vintage Murdoch: The pre-emptive bid outside all bounds of fiduciary caution, based not on the calculations of investment bankers but rather on what Murdoch felt the franchise was worth to him. He knew CBS had the right to top Fox's final bid but believed cbs chairman Laurence Tisch would bring his legendary tightfistedness...
When Lucie Salhany, then chairman of Fox Broadcasting, announced Murdoch's bid totaling $1.6 billion for the four-year pact, there was a brief silence, recalls Jerry Jones, owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys. Members of the N.F.L.'s negotiating team quickly slipped on their best poker faces, but Jones could not restrain himself. He leaped from his chair and cried, "You guys are players...
...Dornan (R-Calif.), the conservative firebrand who launched a bid for the GOP presidential nomination Thursday , isn't going to let his opposition to affirmative action get in the way of quotas. In a CNN interview today, Dornan promised to name his running mate by Christmas and that "that man or woman of course will be conservative, but will most probably be of Jewish heritage or African-American heritage." Tired of senators' frequent appearances on national tickets, the congressman also pledged to select most of his Cabinet secretaries from the House of Representatives if he wins...
...spokesman forColin Powellemerged today to deny reports that the former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman had agreed to advise Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole in his presidential bid -- or was anywhere near deciding to become a candidate himself. "Colin Powell is very actively devoted to the writing of his memoirs," said spokesman Bill Smullen. "He has said repeatedly that while he's not going to rule anything in or rule anything out in terms what he's going to do with the rest of his life, he has no fire burning in his belly at this point for politics...