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...ruled out paying the vast sums being demanded to broadcast England's top Premier League football games live--the price is expected to be more than double the $1.18 billion broadcasters paid in 1996. "We cannot just collect money from license payers to give it to footballers," he said. Rupert Murdoch-controlled, pay-TV group British Sky Broadcasting, which invested more than $1 billion for the rights to broadcast 60 live games each season through 2000-01, is determined to keep Premier League football...
...Bloke is a certain kind of Australian or New Zealand male. (We have other kinds, such as Rupert Murdoch, but we prefer to call them emigres.) The classic Bloke is not a voluble beast. His speech patterns are best described as infrequent but colorful. Mel Gibson once described a director as "slick as eel snot." And this was a director he liked. Crowe's rock band is called 30 Odd Foot of Grunts...
When she did the deal to launch Nickelodeon in the United Kingdom, she caught the eye of Fox television mogul Rupert Murdoch, who hired her to start to cable networks...
...example of the brand of connectivity Prouty can bring to bear: last month when media mogul Rupert Murdoch was passing through Bangalore, Prouty dined with him--and the two are now working on a deal for additional venture funding of Explocity.com Says the company's exultant CEO, Ramjee Chandran: "[Prouty's] deep insights into international business match with my ambitious global plans...
...MADONNA, who disclosed last week that she is pregnant with her second child, has already been the subject of public debate on whether she should marry the baby's father, British director GUY RITCHIE. And while a London paper has speculated that a baby boy will be named after Rupert Everett, Madonna's co-star in The Next Best Thing, there are other obvious choices. Since her first child, Lourdes, shares a name with the French town famous for a sighting of the Virgin Mary, perhaps Ms. Ciccone should consider some names where other apparitions have been reported. Among...