Word: murdochs
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...their typically short seasons, each episode is usually written by the same person. Steven Moffat, the show’s creator and writer, has a fresh and inventive take on modern dating, and has been following through with it since the very beginning. On top of all that, Jeff Murdoch, (played by Richard Coyle) is one of the greatest comedy characters yet written. It’s also available on DVD, for all of you who lack access to obscure satellite channels. I would start with Season 2.Run’s HouseThis new MTV reality show follows the life...
...Standard is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, but the magazine’s erudite prose contrasts starkly with the bawdiness that characterizes other Murdoch ventures. Perhaps the Standard is Murdoch’s attempt to atone for the sin that he has committed by bankrolling the New York Post...
...Rupert Murdoch; his Fox Sports Net allied with boat manufacturer (and onetime Disney corporate raider) Irwin Jacobs for its weekly FLW Outdoors Tour sponsored by Wal-Mart. Comcast, the top U.S. cable firm, plays up fishing on its Outdoor Life Network. OLN, which just bought rights to NFL games, might expand to challenge ESPN after its ratings spike from Tour de France finals...
...Rupert Murdoch's relationship with Beijing started on the wrong foot. The Australian-born mogul declared in 1993 that satellite-television networks, like the Hong Kong--based Star TV venture that he had purchased, would pose "an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere." Since then he has danced more carefully to Beijing's tune. Soon after his provocative comment, China's leaders insisted that he remove the BBC from Star TV's menu of channels after it aired a program critical of Chairman Mao Zedong. Murdoch complied, and has gone further since. On his orders, News Corp.'s publishing...
...that goodwill, however, isn't paying off. Murdoch was testing the legal boundaries in China, where foreign TV broadcasters cannot distribute their programming without government permission. Uniformed officers raided News Corp.'s Beijing offices in June and confiscated financial records and equipment. Calling the investigation a "big and serious case," the government is focusing on a company registered to News Corp. employees with regard to its role in leasing satellite-TV channels in China. And China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television terminated a deal that put News Corp. programming on a nationwide satellite channel based...