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...INDICATORS Worth The Weight? After three years, Rupert Murdoch won his battle for DirecTV, filling a final gap in his media empire by gaining a U.S. satellite broadcaster - pending regulatory approval. But investors balked at the $6.6 billion deal, sending News Corp. shares down...
...biggest brand by launching so many channels and other ventures, including a flagging chain of 154 retail stores. Then, too, competition is heating up, and not just from the new breed of reality-TV shows like Joe Millionaire and The Bachelorette. National Geographic recently joined forces with Rupert Murdoch's Fox Cable Networks to start a competing, eponymous adventure channel that reaches about 40 million U.S. homes...
...stick around if Discovery did go public. They both relish the fact that since they don't have to answer to Wall Street, they can plow earnings back into long-term investments. "When you construct a 10-year deal with them, it's not a ridiculous discussion," says Rupert Gavin, CEO of BBC Worldwide, whose upstart cable channel, BBC America, is distributed by Discovery...
...Letterman knock-off reading Top 10 lists. But censors have refused to clear a Friends-style show with allusions to premarital sex. Although News Corp. won the right to beam its Mandarin-language channel, Starry Sky, across the country to certain hotels and apartments, it is unclear whether Rupert Murdoch will be allowed to reach China's 95 million ordinary cable subscribers. The Communist Party will be the judge on that one. --By Matthew Forney/Beijing...
...China's 340 million television households have never watched anything quite like this. The show, called TV Court, is a knockoff of America's popular reality courtroom series Judge Judy?and it's brought to you by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. It's all part of the media titan's grand plan to captivate the world's biggest audience. News Corp. thinks it knows what must-see TV means to the Chinese people, and it's not the bland melodramas, giddy variety shows and propaganda classics broadcast on some 50 cable channels run mostly by the country's central...