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...violating federal rules that limit a foreign company or individual from owning more than 25 percent of a broadcast property. NBC's complaint follows a similar petition by the NAACP, which said that Fox's foreign ownership structure denied opportunities to U.S. minorities. Fox officials deny wrongdoing, saying that Rupert Murdoch, who controls News Corp. and became a U.S. citizen in order to buy the stations, now owns 76 percent of the network's voting rights.Post your opinion on theNew Mediabulletin board...
...RUPERT MURDOCH...
...latest casualty in the Simpson case is the TV movie on the life of the former football star. Fox Network owner and media mogul Rupert Murdoch nixed the project because he was concerned that airing the film could make it difficult for O.J. to get a fair trial, according to the Hollywood Reporter, an entertainment industry newspaper...
Every star needs supporting actors. Simpson's have come, almost literally, from Central Casting. Brian Kaelin, with his sleepy-surfer blondness, is a part-time actor whose films include Beach Fever. Robert Shapiro, the Rupert Murdoch look-alike, and Gerald Uelmen, a less telegenic Matlock, play bad cop- good cop for the defense. Prosecutor Marcia Clark is a former professional dancer. Clark's witnesses have a nice racial mix out of Hill Street Blues: Greek-American male nurse, Chinese-American criminalist, middle-American detectives. During recesses, big-shot defense attorneys -- hired guns who fit the western-movie stereotypes of cowboy...
...stock value that had been cut sharply after the Paramount sortie. And it brought Tisch's company almost back to its May level, before CBS got a black eye by losing eight of its affiliate stations to Fox. CBS had also suffered wounds from an earlier affiliate raid by Rupert Murdoch, owner of the News Corp. (which includes the Fox network), and Revlon magnate Ronald Perelman. "CBS had to do something to break out of the doldrums," says Christopher Dixon, media analyst with PaineWebber. "With this move they enter the modern age -- albeit laughing, kicking, struggling and crying. They...