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...before the year is out. Until then, airlines will have to, well, wait. I Want My TV Auf Deutsch Forget Sex and the City and Donald Trump - what American TV viewers really crave is German-language programming, right? ProSiebenSat.1 Media, the German TV network controlled by U.S. media mogul Haim Saban, launches its first channel in the U.S. this week. The Welt channel will show movies, news, comedy and live matches from Germany's first division soccer league over the DISH Network satellite system. Its target audience: the estimated 800,000 German speakers in the U.S., German corporations, and hotel...
...probably the biggest media mogul you've never heard of. Born in Egypt and reared in Israel, Haim Saban is the self-made billionaire who turned an offbeat Japanese kids' TV show into a global franchise: the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. He lives on a six-acre estate in Beverly Hills, Calif., and keeps a fairly low profile. So why is he buying a group of major German TV networks and a film library...
Friends say the deal is "vintage Haim"--referring to the man's renowned eye for value, negotiating skills and colorful Yiddish shtick. "Bubeleh, let's make a deal; I feel it in my kishke," he'll say, referring to his gut. The assets were being auctioned off by the bankrupt German firm KirchMedia, which failed after owner Leo Kirch overexpanded into pay TV and sports programming. Saban was a dark horse, competing against global media giants like Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. But by early this year, Saban had talked his way into Germany's insular media community and, with...
Nonetheless, this ad chose to recognize Haim Saban. Who is Haim Saban? See entry six: “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers was produced by Haim Saban, an Israeli whose family fled persecution in Egypt...
...enough. To left-wingers, those are admirable stands. Yet then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin persuaded Mitzna to withdraw the Lebanon dismissal letter, and people close to him say he quit the West Bank job because he was just tired of criticism from the left and right. Labor rival Haim Ramon says Mitzna is all "bullshit and baloney." Mitzna left the army in 1993 and later that year became mayor of Haifa, one of the few places in Israel where Jewish and Arab citizens mix relatively easily. Mitzna has earned credit for that among Israeli Arabs, more than 80% of whom...