Word: competitors
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Instead, he bought about 13% of QVC, the cable-TV retailer that is the Home Shopping Network's prime competitor. But he hadn't quite shaken his yen for upscale properties and in short order was using QVC to launch the exhaustively chronicled bidding war for Paramount that he lost to Viacom's Sumner Redstone. By the summer of 1994, Diller was describing a projected takeover of CBS as his "destiny." But Comcast, a cable company that owned a 15.5% stake in QVC, squelched the deal and then tendered its own offer to buy out Diller's share...
...mergers, and most observers expect that industry consolidation--ventures linking phone companies, broadcast networks, computer firms, cable companies--will soon shift into high gear. "Companies must choose their partners in the next 12 months, because when the markets converge, anyone who's not a partner is probably a competitor," says Bill Deatherage, telecommunications analyst at Bear Stearns. The end result may be a handful of industry behemoths, each of which can offer customers the whole panoply of information and entertainment services, from cable sports to online chat rooms, from Friends to long-distance friends and family. If that...
...teenagers lies in the assurance that they can tune in and never be confronted with the image of 1970s star (and eternal guest host) Chevy Chase in a mock game show or a Paul Simon--Edie Brickell duet. Significantly, Mad TV boasts a more balanced cast than its competitor. Among the group of eight there are three women and three black cast members. SNL's larger troupe of 11 features three women and only one black cast member, Tim Meadows...
Among those good individual showings was senior Ben Bowen's 1:54.08 time in the 800 meters, more than a second ahead of his nearest competitor. The other Harvard winners were Lonergan (mile), Joseph Johnson (400 meters), Kenneth Hughes (shot put) and the two-mile relay...
...will) is bound to add to Sun's bottom line. Even more interesting, from a business perspective, is the so-called intranet--the collection of networks that connect computers withincorporations--that both Sun and Microsoft have targeted as a rich area for growth. To help head off its chief competitor, Sun last week launched a new JavaSoft division, run by Alan Baratz, a former IBM executive and president of Rupert Murdoch's Delphi Internet Services Corp., to boost Java in both the fast-growing Internet and the far more profitable intranet...