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MEDIA-MERGER WALLFLOWER OF THE YEAR: Barry Diller. 1994: Tries for Tiffany Network. 1995: Gets Home Shopping Network. Runner-up: Rupert Murdoch...
Like Turner, Malone loves boats--and he has a seaman's loyalty for Turner. "Malone didn't stand in the way of this because Turner wanted to do it," says Barry Diller. "John has made a lot of money with Ted." Malone will behave as long as Turner stays happy. If either of them stops smiling, so does Levin...
...agreed to accept a bid of $638 billion in cash and stock from Disony GETCITWest (formed from a fusion of Disney, Sony, GE, TCI, Time Warner and Westinghouse). The new entity, which now controls all entertainment on film, TV, CD, video, telephone and computer, will be called, simply, Diller...
...moment, that news from the future may only be Barry Diller's pipe dream. Diller, the onetime baron of Fox, last week bought into a skein of uhf TV stations to get back in the game. It is also a pipe nightmare for those who believe competition is the soul of both capitalism and pop-cultural creativity. But another deal last week brought the scenario a step toward plausibility. Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System declared they were deep in negotiations that could lead to a Time Warner purchase, led by chairman Gerald Levin, of Ted Turner's prize fleet...
...hire capped the busiest period in Hollywood's game of musical moguls since 1984, when Barry Diller moved from Paramount to 20th Century Fox, Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg from Paramount to Disney, and Frank Wells from Warner Bros. to Disney. Those shifts cued the creation of Fox as a fourth TV network and Disney's growth into a multimedia behemoth . Now, in less than a year, Katzenberg leaves Disney and starts DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen; Ovitz's partner Ron Meyer takes the vacant post at MCA; and Ovitz, the top dealmaker, joins Eisner, the most powerful showman...