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Media baron Rupert Murdoch won akey battle to hold onto his Fox television networkwhen the Federal Communications Commission today allowed him to retain his eight TV station licenses. Murdoch had been accused of concealing the fact that his Australia-based News Corp. owned 99 percent of Fox when he sought permission a decade ago to acquire stations that formed the backbone of the network. To hold onto his victory, he'll still have to make a case that waiving foreign ownership restrictions would be in the public interest. Though the FCC found that Murdoch waited years to disclose the extent...
...takes a lot to rattle Rupert Murdoch, but in January, as he faced Federal Communications Commission lawyers probing his 10-year-old purchase of TV stations now at the core of his Fox Broadcasting network, he grew clearly angry. "Either your people can't read, don't understand English or understand instruction," he said, his voice stone-hard, "or you have a witch-hunt in this...
...Senate approved and sent to the President a measure that would end a tax break to companies that sell broadcast and cable outlets to minority owners (though not before allowing one last such deal involving media mogul Rupert Murdoch). The provision is part of a broader tax bill, which President Clinton has agreed to sign...
...Madness of King George spreads its story on a broad canvas: the court of a troubled King who is seized by what seems to be dementia. As George III (Hawthorne) loses control, the foppish Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett) plots to seize the throne, while Prime Minister William Pitt (Julian Wadham) fights to retain his power. But at its heart King George is an intimate family drama. It can be seen as satirical parable-"The film is really as much about the royal family today as it is about the 18th century," says Bennett-or as domestic tragedy, a kind...
...companies added to a growing ethical controversy. The House ethics committee is already looking into donations to GOPAC, the Gingrich-led political-action committee that received money from corporations like Hewlett-Packard. The committee is also probing his lucrative contract to write two books for media mogul Rupert Murdoch...