Word: cbs
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...affiliate in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The FCC's investigation also forced Murdoch to place into trusteeship two powerful stations he bought under an option included as part of his $500 million investment last year in New World Communications, the deal that won Fox a 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...
...years no one openly challenged the deal's structure, although CBS in 1990-91 did try in vain to persuade a senior Congressman and two newspapers to investigate. Virtually anyone can challenge renewals or transfers of broadcast licenses, a practice that acknowledges that the airwaves are public property, at least in theory. Enter David Honig, a Washington lawyer who often represents the interests of minority clients before the FCC. He too had wondered about the deal and, in mid-1993, found the time and a willing client, a unit of the N.A.A.C.P., to allow him to do the necessary digging...
Acquiring football, moreover, helped Murdoch achieve his investment in New World, whose cbs affiliates were smarting from the N.F.L. loss. For those stations in particular, says one former Fox executive, "football was the bait...
...pursuit of "content" to feed his vast global distribution network, Murdoch had gone on a global sports 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...
Crimson President Andrew L. Wright '96 spoke onNational Public Radio and CBS' "This Morning"yesterday morning. Other students appeared inmedia sources ranging from the Associated Pressnews wire to local radio stations...