Word: rupert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rupert Murdoch isn't somebody to sit back and count his blessings. It was just two weeks ago that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission took a load off his mind when it decided not to force him to reduce his ownership stake in eight stations that are at the center of his Fox TV network. With that major distraction out of the way and the coffers of his News Corp. global media empire bursting--he boasted recently of having $1 billion on hand--everybody figured it was just a matter of time until his next big move...
...stake of itself to British Telecommunications for $4.3 billion, it began looking for a partner to transform its worldwide phone network into pathways for "content"-whatever a computer or TV screen can receive, from info-services to movies. "You can hardly think of content without the name of Rupert Murdoch coming to the fore," says MCI chairman Bert Roberts...
...RUPERT MURDOCH FCC says his foreign vs. domestic holdings hold no conflict...
Family gatherings don't often take place in the bland hearing rooms of the Federal Communications Commission, but last week Rupert Murdoch showed up with his wife, daughter and son-in-law and grabbed front-row seats. When his daughter Elisabeth began showing off baby pictures, a grinning Murdoch joked, "Hey now, cut that...
...Last week a group of semifamous conservatives (William Kristol, a Republican strategist and former Dan Quayle adviser; John Podhoretz, son of Commentary editor in chief Norman Podhoretz and a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan; and Fred Barnes of the New Republic and The McLaughlin Group) announced that Rupert Murdoch had agreed to put up $3 million to start the Standard. The weekly journal hopes to be to conservatives what the New Republic at its best was to liberals: a journal of opinion intellectually honest enough to criticize its friends (Kristol points out he was skeptical of the $4.5 million book...