Word: murdochs
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...businesses like HKT, Richard realized that HKT had assets he could use. Chief among them: its broadband Internet service, which has 100,000 customers; its cellular-phone system and the potential of new, third-generation cellular technology to enable Internet access; and rights to a valuable deal signed by Murdoch's Star TV to provide television shows for HKT's broadband network. He eventually offered shareholders a package of shares and cash that could cost him $12 billion...
...RUPERT MURDOCH Marry a Multi-Millionaire fiasco is gossip fodder for years. What next? When Divorces Go Wild...
...their eyes on the bottom line, network executives are understandably torn between expensive, quality programming that may take months to catch on with viewers and the cheap, immediate gratification of cringe-fests like "Multi-Millionaire." Since Grushow's declaration, the television world has been rife with speculation. Will Rupert Murdoch's network hold fast to its vow, even if it means taking a hefty hit in the ratings? Stay tuned: Fox may have inadvertently created the season's best cliffhanger...
...hardest. In many ways, the pre-deal Time Warner was less an operating company than it was a stock price, the financial expression of a series of disconnected assets. Unlike other media megaliths like Disney or News Corp., where a nearly totemic central figure--Michael Eisner and Rupert Murdoch, respectively--conceives the strategy and orders it into place, Time Warner under Levin has been an extremely successful dysfunctional family. Six powerful executives, ranging from Roger Ames of the music group to Terry McGuirk of the Turner networks, run six huge businesses, and their rivalry with external competitors often consumes less...