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...commercial online service two weeks ago and last week announced that it would add Quake to its roster of games. Meanwhile, TEN's chief competitors--Mpath and Engage--are testing services that they expect to be fully operational this month. A fourth competitor, Sendai, has just been purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. All four companies hope to make a killing, or at least a decent living, bringing interactive fun and games to cyberspace...
...that Time Warner, under an arrangement with the FTC specifying that it would carry another cable news channel besides CNN as it merges with Turner Broadcasting, broke a prior agreement by carrying the joint Microsoft-NBC news network MSNBC in this critical market instead of Fox News. Fox chief Rupert Murdoch says he will press for a permanent injunction against Time Warner's upcoming purchase of Turner and seek monetary damages. "Every city's cable system does have in effect a monopoly," says TIME's Richard Zoglin. "Cable companies have a great deal of power over programming, but a limited...
...books: I'm Losing You by Bruce Wagner (Villard; 319 pages; $23), Powertown by Michael Lind (HarperCollins; 264 pages; $23) and Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison (Crown; 355 pages; $24). The themes: sex, power and degradation; sex, racism and violence; sex, murder and a 300-lb. version of Rupert Murdoch...
...just of the story's source and tawdry sexual details but of its timing. The Star's scoop was first made public on the very day of President Clinton's acceptance speech, in a front-page story in the New York Post, a newspaper owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch. (Murdoch once owned the Star too, but he sold it in 1990 to the company that also owns the National Enquirer, its chief competitor...
...horizon are MCI Communications and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which have sunk $1.1 billion into their joint global dbs venture, American Sky Broadcasting. This pair love a good marketing punch-up. The company started swinging last month, touting ASkyB's service as "entertainment like nothing on earth." Earth to Rupert: the system is at least two years from launch...