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...Rupert Murdoch's Star cable network's entertainment, movie and sports channels are among the most popular in the burgeoning Indian market. Star News is the No. 2 Hindi news channel in India and its market share is growing...
...Last week, though, Star News was making headlines rather than broadcasting them. Murdoch was suspected by Information and Broadcasting Ministry officials of sidestepping a government rule intended to keep foreigners from controlling local media. The issue is a regulation passed earlier this year requiring that news broadcasters be 74% Indian-owned. When Star News launched in 1998, it bought its programming from New Delhi Television (NDTV), an Indian-owned company, working out of a state-of-the-art production center in a converted movie theater in New Delhi. Murdoch bowed out of that partnership in April, and Star News says...
With its ornate chandelier, Italian tile floor and antique gilded mirror, the little salon tucked just off the Senate floor looks like a spot designed for polite conversation. But the dialogue was anything but polite when media magnate Rupert Murdoch lunched there in early June with Democratic Senators. The session was supposed to be a private discussion of the effects that looser media-ownership rules would have on consolidation and competition. Instead, the Democrats spent an hour venting about Murdoch's enormously successful Fox News Channel. They complained that the cable network, whose slogan is "fair and balanced," shuts...
...Manchester United, the club for which Beckham played since he was 14, a sum of $41 million for his services. Europe's leading soccer clubs are becoming true global brands. Measured by its value on the open market, United is the most successful sports franchise in the world; Rupert Murdoch tried and failed to buy the club for $1 billion in 1998. With a worldwide fan base--in August, it's scheduled to play exhibition games before sold-out crowds in the U.S.--and enormous brand recognition in soccer-mad Asia, United has leveraged its stars to sell merchandise from...
...Manchester United, the club for which Beckham played since he was 14, a sum of $41 million for his services. Europe's leading soccer clubs are becoming true global brands. Measured by its value on the open market, United is the most successful sports franchise in the world; Rupert Murdoch tried and failed to buy the club for $1 billion in 1998. With a worldwide fan base - in August, it's scheduled to play exhibition games before sold-out crowds in the U.S. - and enormous brand recognition in soccer-mad Asia, United has leveraged its stars to sell merchandise from...