Word: ownerships
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has plans to attack Iraq. His son, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Michael Powell, has plans to attack media regulation. In a vote Powell scheduled for this spring, the FCC will address a proposal to relax federal limits on ownership and consolidation of television, radio, newspaper and internet media. But to deregulate would be a terrible move. Under the current regulatory regime, there are limits to the proportion of broadcast outlets a single company can own in any particular market. While national networks such as NBC and CBS provide content across the country...
Relaxing these ownership rules would open the door to massive consolidation in the media sector. A small number of already-large companies would be able to buy out smaller broadcasters, vertically integrating the production and distribution—both locally and nationally—of broadcast content. In doing so, control of content in many of the nation’s media markets would be concentrated in the hands of a few large companies. Such consolidation is dangerous for several reasons...
...option plans occurred after 1996, when the jig was all but up. Today around 9 million employees are in these plans, and at least half their options have strike prices (the point at which they make money) above where the stock now trades, says the National Center for Employee Ownership. In some cases, option grants replaced profit sharing, a bonus or increased 401(k) contributions...
...equity analyst at HSBC Securities in Tokyo. Mizuho president Maeda has said that he is looking at foreign and domestic investors alike. Most likely, he'll have to sell preferred stock to the bank's own customers and close business partners. This will perpetuate a pattern of cross-ownership between banks and affiliated companies that is one of the toxic hallmarks of the Japanese economy and a major impediment to meaningful reform. The practice of banks having their borrowers as shareholders practically guarantees conflicts of interest. "Unfortunately," says Katsuhito Sasajima, an analyst at UBS Warburg in Tokyo, "the cross-capital...
...that a very large number of cars rolling in Russia are Fiats." Even more controversially, Agnelli also later sold almost 10% of Fiat to Libya in 1976, before eventually buying it back. Agnelli's business ambitions also began to spread into other sectors, including insurance, banking, media and ownership of his beloved Turin football team, Juventus. Mondays could be hell at the office the day after a Juve loss. But by the 1990s, the carmaking world faced a transformed playing field. Always an advocate of a united Europe, Agnelli eventually fell victim to the European Union's new requirements...