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After tuning the television to the DirecTV broadcast of the College Sports Television selection show, the members of the No. 16 Harvard field hockey team squeezed themselves into a trio of sofas. In a comfortable room above the ice at Bright Hockey Center, the Crimson had to anxiously wait until the final quarter of the NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed to at last learn the opponent and site of its first-round game...
...market a crack and granted News Corp. permission to offer its new Chinese-language network, Starry Sky, over cable in the southern province of Guangdong. News Corp. reciprocated by agreeing to air CCTV International on its Fox cable channels in America and later on its newly acquired satellite network, DirecTV. (Beijing struck a similar deal with Time Warner, owner of TIME, which still carries CCTV International on its cable systems but has sold its controlling stake in a Chinese channel.) As part of News Corp.'s commitment to the venture, it hired Terenzio to spend a few months a year...
...Most of them are fixated, in this election year, on Fox News and its conservative agenda. But in terms of Murdoch's real influence--not to mention his bottom line--nothing emanating from Roger Ailes' cable channel remotely compares to News Corp.'s $6.6 billion takeover of satellite broadcaster DirecTV. The deal, approved by regulators in December, extends Murdoch's globe-spanning satellite empire to North America; bolsters his strategy of marrying distribution and content; and seems to have triggered, as his maneuvers often do, another tectonic shift in the communications landscape. Why is Comcast suddenly bidding for Disney...
Thus ended the reception of television in the Kennelly household. I say reception because we still possessed the immoral box itself. We could watch movies and later DVDs, and in a moment of parental weakness acquired a much-cherished Playstation. But primetime? Cable? DirecTV? Forget...
...definitely Big Business--estimated at $10 billion a year--and as Skin emphasizes, much of that goes into the coffers of blue-chip hotel chains, media companies and cable operators (such as Time Warner, the parent company of TIME). In the pilot, Goldman's company negotiates a partnership with DirecTV--the satellite service that, in real life, Fox's parent company, News Corp., has struck a deal to control. "Certainly," says Leonard dryly, "[Fox] asked us to change the name of the company" in the version that will...