Word: murdoch
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...full amplitude these days, you have to go outside Washington altogether. It is in the globe-spanning fields of entertainment and communications, where mere governments are just so many obstacles to the corporate game plan, that you see power with all its cellular phones blazing. When Rupert Murdoch wants something--the Times of London, a fourth network, broadcast rights to N.F.L. games, his own 24-hour cable-news operation--he gets it with a panache that is as entertaining, and as chilling, as anything in Citizen Kane. If Machiavelli were alive today, he would be reading Murdoch...
...never fit in with Fox's efforts to attract a young crowd with shows like The Simpsons and Melrose Place. "When I was there," says David Corvo, yet another ex-CBS executive who spent some time at Fox, "my strong feeling was that virtually nobody in the company except Murdoch was interested in supporting the development of a news division beyond what was needed to service affiliate newscasts...
...staff did no news gathering but acted essentially as a distribution service, gathering stories from overseas suppliers and from Fox-owned stations in the U.S. and feeding them to affiliates. But even this modest effort was deemed too expensive and was scaled back a couple of years later. Instead, Murdoch shifted his attention (and his pocketbook) to acquiring new stations and buying up the rights to sports programming, like N.F.L. football...
Starting last fall, however, Murdoch's interest in news suddenly revived. In November he announced plans to start a 24-hour news channel; shortly thereafter two network rivals, ABC and NBC, did the same. Fox seemed especially ill equipped to pull off such an ambitious venture, given that unlike its competitors, it has no news infrastructure to build on. Fox also faces daunting problems getting space on the crowded cable dial. (NBC will put its new network, which debuts in July, on a channel it already owns, America's Talking; ABC hopes to package its service, promised for late this...
...studio football field are about to transform baseball, or try to. Since its first broadcast less than two years ago, Fox Sports has left a sizable imprint on televised sports with innovative gimmicks, over-the-top commentary and a philosophy of fun with games. Started from scratch when Rupert Murdoch landed an N.F.L. television contract in 1993, Fox Sports has made imitators out of skeptics. But then the whole idea of a fourth network was once considered impossible...