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...largest share of a company that dominates British pay television; your subscription base has nearly doubled over the past four years; and you've just announced stellar earnings. How do you treat your chief executive: a) Extend his contract or b) show him the door? If you're Rupert Murdoch, the answer just might be B. Murdoch seemed at his restless best last week as headlines announced that BSkyB's Tony Ball, who has led the company since 1999, may be on his way out. On his way in, according to unnamed sources in all the papers, is Murdoch...
...Rupert Murdoch's Star cable network's entertainment, movie and sports channels are among the most popular in the burgeoning Indian market. Star News is the No. 2 Hindi news channel in India and its market share is growing...
...sister of I.R.A. martyr Bobby Sands, who died on hunger strike in 1981 - gave him a potency among I.R.A. volunteers that he might not otherwise have enjoyed, so when he split from the Provisional I.R.A. many followed. McKevitt's conviction was based largely on evidence provided by David Rupert, an American who infiltrated the Real I.R.A. on behalf of the fbi and MI5. Rupert won McKevitt's trust, portraying himself as a computer expert who could help with cyberterrorism and bring in badly needed funds from the States. Rupert has made no secret of his motivations. He calls himself...
With its ornate chandelier, Italian tile floor and antique gilded mirror, the little salon tucked just off the Senate floor looks like a spot designed for polite conversation. But the dialogue was anything but polite when media magnate Rupert Murdoch lunched there in early June with Democratic Senators. The session was supposed to be a private discussion of the effects that looser media-ownership rules would have on consolidation and competition. Instead, the Democrats spent an hour venting about Murdoch's enormously successful Fox News Channel. They complained that the cable network, whose slogan is "fair and balanced," shuts...
...paid Manchester United, the club for which Beckham played since he was 14, a sum of $41 million for his services. Europe's leading soccer clubs are becoming true global brands. Measured by its value on the open market, United is the most successful sports franchise in the world; Rupert Murdoch tried and failed to buy the club for $1 billion in 1998. With a worldwide fan base--in August, it's scheduled to play exhibition games before sold-out crowds in the U.S.--and enormous brand recognition in soccer-mad Asia, United has leveraged its stars to sell merchandise...