Word: rupert
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...Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner If the world of telecommunications were a playground, the two moguls would be given a timeout. Irked that the Fox News Network wasn't on the Time Warner cable system in New York, Murdoch called in the friendly muscle of Mayor Rudy Giuliani, used his New York Post newspaper to question Turner's sanity, and hired a blimp to fly over Turner's Braves during the World Series with the message, ted, play baseball, not monopoly. Turner, for his part, continually rants about Murdoch, once comparing him to "the late Fuhrer." A far better tack...
Super Bowl Blackout? NEW YORK CITY: For most football fans in five cities serviced by Time Warner cable, the long-running dispute between Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch was little more than a battle between two egotistical billionaires. That has all changed now that Time Warner and Fox are in the midst of a game of chicken that could cut off access of the Fox network to 1.5 million viewers just as the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl are set to begin. Time Warner says Fox is threatening to pull its signal in five cities -- Austin, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Kansas...
Other media giants have already decided. Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. dropped the BBC's World Service Television news broadcast to China from its Asian satellite to placate Beijing. And sources told TIME that last year Universal Pictures--and reportedly other studios--turned down the chance to distribute Kundun for fear of upsetting the Chinese...
...news is big business. Last week another media behemoth entered the 24-hour news competition, as Rupert Murdoch launched the Fox News Channel, available initially in 17 million homes. It will vie for viewers with the granddaddy of 24-hour TV news, CNN (whose owner, Turner Broadcasting, last week became part of Time Warner, TIME's parent company), and with MSNBC, the ambitious TV-and-Internet news service launched in July by NBC and Microsoft...
...commercial online service two weeks ago and last week announced that it would add Quake to its roster of games. Meanwhile, TEN's chief competitors--Mpath and Engage--are testing services that they expect to be fully operational this month. A fourth competitor, Sendai, has just been purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. All four companies hope to make a killing, or at least a decent living, bringing interactive fun and games to cyberspace...