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Amount O.J. Simpson was ordered to pay to DirecTV for stealing the satellite broadcaster's signals...
...baron Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox News Channel Gore once called a "fifth column" that has turned "daily Republican talking points into the definition of what's objective." Chances are, Current TV would never have got even this far had Murdoch not given it NWI's existing slot on his DirecTV satellite system, which accounts for 14.5 million of the nearly 20 million households Current reaches. It's a big start toward the 50 million Gore hopes to attain in five years. "Rupert Murdoch right now is the biggest contributor to the possible success of Current," says John Higgins, business editor...
...kind of sandbox, a chance to build castles and knock them down, experiment with different careers, knowing that none of it really counts. After all, this is a world of overwhelming choice: there are 40 kinds of coffee beans at Whole Foods Market, 205 channels on DirecTV, 15 million personal ads on Match.com and 800,000 jobs on Monster.com Can you blame Galantha for wanting to try them all? She doesn't want to play just the hand she has been dealt. She wants to look through the whole deck. "My problem is I'm really overstimulated by everything," Galantha...
...Goodell. And the networks pay dearly for the eyeballs they get. Last month the NFL renewed two network TV dealswith CBS, a division of Viacom, and with Fox, a division of News Corp.that will guarantee $8 billion for broadcast rights from 2006 to 2011. Another News Corp sibling, DirecTV, is paying $3.5 billion for satellite rights through 2010. There are still cable and Monday Night Football deals to be concluded. Finalizing them will mean that 52% of the league's revenues are in the bag. And that's just the television money. The league sells about 94% of its available...
...boardroom struggle that is as much about legacy concerns as about control, media titans Rupert Murdoch and John Malone are sparring over the prized assets of News Corp., which include the Fox TV group, publisher HarperCollins, filmmaker 20th Century Fox and satellite-TV firm DirecTV. Malone, 63, wants to resuscitate his image as a brilliant dealmaker and operator. Murdoch, 73, who has offices secured by fingerprint ID technology and keeps a tight rein on the company he built, is driven to pass on the business to his children...