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...pursuit of "content" to feed his vast global distribution network, Murdoch had gone on a global sports shopping binge, even buying the rights to broadcast badminton to the Chinese. Late in 1993 he outbid CBS for the National Football League's National Football Conference games-a package that also lets Fox broadcast the Super Bowl in January 1997. The deal was vintage Murdoch: The pre-emptive bid outside all bounds of fiduciary caution, based not on the calculations of investment bankers but rather on what Murdoch felt the franchise was worth to him. He knew CBS had the right...
...auctioneers, Ferrell and Slaughter, wore coats, ties, shorts and knee socks and encouraged the audience to outbid each other. Ferrell and Slaughter reminded students of the HAND program and the promise of free alcohol(for those over 21, of course) at the springformal...
...scrappy Fox network outbid CBS, patriarch of pro-pigskin broadcasters, for four-year TV rights to the prized National Football Conference. Now such gilt- edged franchises as Dallas, San Francisco and the New York Giants will air on the network of Al Bundy and Bart Simpson. And CBS, an N.F.L. home since the '50s, could be without a major pro-team sport. As Bart might say to CBS: "Don't have the Cowboys...
Paramount Communications outbid three rivals to buy publisher Macmillan for a hefty $553 million. Paramount, which will become the world's second largest publisher, is itself the object of a fierce bidding war. QVC raised its offer for Paramount to $90 a share, topping Viacom's price by $5 a share...
...seems like a reasonably minimum set of standards. It non-union contractors can do these and can still outbid unions, then they're not the devil. I would prefer to see everything union, but I would like to see standards," says Ehrlich...