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...Rupert Murdoch; his Fox Sports Net allied with boat manufacturer (and onetime Disney corporate raider) Irwin Jacobs for its weekly FLW Outdoors Tour sponsored by Wal-Mart. Comcast, the top U.S. cable firm, plays up fishing on its Outdoor Life Network. OLN, which just bought rights to NFL games, might expand to challenge ESPN after its ratings spike from Tour de France finals...
...Rupert Murdoch's relationship with Beijing started on the wrong foot. The Australian-born mogul declared in 1993 that satellite-television networks, like the Hong Kong--based Star TV venture that he had purchased, would pose "an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere." Since then he has danced more carefully to Beijing's tune. Soon after his provocative comment, China's leaders insisted that he remove the BBC from Star TV's menu of channels after it aired a program critical of Chairman Mao Zedong. Murdoch complied, and has gone further since. On his orders, News Corp.'s publishing...
...growing group of companies is trying to figure out how to turn the cacophony of personalized information into usable form - and viable businesses. They call it the Shared, Trust or Referral Economy, and it is the current obsession of every Web company from Amazon to Yahoo!. Consider: in July, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. spent $580 million to acquire Intermix Media, a U.S.-based company whose prime asset is MySpace, a site that lets members share their blogs, photos and favorite music. In March, Yahoo! bought Flickr, a photo-sharing website, for an undisclosed sum. All that activity makes sense...
That's why it's no small irony that the biggest boon to the venture came from none other than media baron Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox News Channel Gore once called a "fifth column" that has turned "daily Republican talking points into the definition of what's objective." Chances are, Current TV would never have got even this far had Murdoch not given it NWI's existing slot on his DirecTV satellite system, which accounts for 14.5 million of the nearly 20 million households Current reaches. It's a big start toward the 50 million Gore hopes to attain...
...respectively. And with the growth in broadband connections boosting the time Internet users spend online, advertisers get more chances to entice them. Global Internet ad revenues are set to soar by almost 20% this year. Not surprisingly, old-media firms are feeling the pinch. News Corporation chief executive Rupert Murdoch last week paid out $580 million for Los Angeles-based Intermix Media, the company behind the burgeoning social network at MySpace.com. The two-year-old service hosts music, chat rooms and blogs, as well as personal and classified ads. But not all online companies are created equal. Google and Yahoo...