Word: murdoch
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...story's source and tawdry sexual details but of its timing. The Star's scoop was first made public on the very day of President Clinton's acceptance speech, in a front-page story in the New York Post, a newspaper owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch. (Murdoch once owned the Star too, but he sold it in 1990 to the company that also owns the National Enquirer, its chief competitor...
...horizon are MCI Communications and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which have sunk $1.1 billion into their joint global dbs venture, American Sky Broadcasting. This pair love a good marketing punch-up. The company started swinging last month, touting ASkyB's service as "entertainment like nothing on earth." Earth to Rupert: the system is at least two years from launch...
Singling out ID4 for special praise is as curious as his commendation for True Lies in his earlier Movietown foray. Well, maybe not: both have heroines who strip and both were produced by 20th Century Fox, the studio controlled by Rupert Murdoch, a schlockmeister and heavy G.O.P. supporter who has contributed to Dole...
What's in it for him? Malone is said to be eager to cash out his Turner stake, possibly even ready to sell TCI outright to News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, ever ravenous for new distribution lines. Just last week Murdoch buffed up his portfolio with a $2.5 billion purchase of the 10-affiliate-strong New World Communications Group, and there could be a tidy little Turner windfall awaiting him too. The FTC deal requires Time Warner to carry a second news channel on its systems to complement CNN; don't be surprised to find the infant Fox News Channel...
...charm. Wryness is a big tactic here; it keeps the story from going ballistic. In the late 1990s, you will learn, there is apparently a 24-hour McLaughlin Group channel. There's also a near monopoly of Fox and Star TV news networks. The networks are owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which just happens to have financed...