Word: murdochized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lipson. According to insiders, Lipson wanted Amsterdam to meet with advertisers and sought more control over covers. Felker's challenge will be not only to sustain Amsterdam's success but to get along with Lipson. Felker's track record with owners is mixed: after first approaching Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch to buy shares in New York in 1976, he bitterly fought Murdoch's purchase of the magazine. When Murdoch prevailed, Felker quit...
...billion communications empire already straddles three continents and, via satellite, reaches into space. Still, Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch detected a weak spot: no major U.S. publishing house. Meanwhile, 170-year-old Harper & Row, which has published authors ranging from Mark Twain to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was the target of at least two takeover bids. Without so much as a rumor, Murdoch swept in with a bid of $65 a share, clobbering a $34 offer from Magazine Publisher Theodore Cross and the $50 price proposed by rival publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Harper & Row quickly accepted the $300 million deal last week...
...publishing house will fit neatly into Murdoch's media domain, built mainly in his native Australia, Britain and the U.S. His holdings now include major newspapers in all three countries, a Hollywood movie studio, and the Sky Channel TV satellite that serves 15 European countries. Murdoch's new TV network, Fox Broadcasting, begins beaming prime-time programs to 108 U.S. stations this week...
...Murdoch succeeds with his plan to integrate some of Harper's operations with those of his Glasgow-based William Collins publishing house, the result could be what Brooks Thomas, Harper's chief executive, calls, "perhaps the major English language publisher in the world." Adds he: "Rupert Murdoch has very deep pockets and a very broad view...
...bold attempt to create a fourth TV network, Rupert Murdoch' s Fox Broadcasting Co. makes its move into prime time...