Word: rupert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Singling out ID4 for special praise is as curious as his commendation for True Lies in his earlier Movietown foray. Well, maybe not: both have heroines who strip and both were produced by 20th Century Fox, the studio controlled by Rupert Murdoch, a schlockmeister and heavy G.O.P. supporter who has contributed to Dole...
What's in it for him? Malone is said to be eager to cash out his Turner stake, possibly even ready to sell TCI outright to News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, ever ravenous for new distribution lines. Just last week Murdoch buffed up his portfolio with a $2.5 billion purchase of the 10-affiliate-strong New World Communications Group, and there could be a tidy little Turner windfall awaiting him too. The FTC deal requires Time Warner to carry a second news channel on its systems to complement CNN; don't be surprised to find the infant Fox News Channel...
...comic charm. Wryness is a big tactic here; it keeps the story from going ballistic. In the late 1990s, you will learn, there is apparently a 24-hour McLaughlin Group channel. There's also a near monopoly of Fox and Star TV news networks. The networks are owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which just happens to have financed...
...power in its full amplitude these days, you have to go outside Washington altogether. It is in the globe-spanning fields of entertainment and communications, where mere governments are just so many obstacles to the corporate game plan, that you see power with all its cellular phones blazing. When Rupert Murdoch wants something--the Times of London, a fourth network, broadcast rights to N.F.L. games, his own 24-hour cable-news operation--he gets it with a panache that is as entertaining, and as chilling, as anything in Citizen Kane. If Machiavelli were alive today, he would be reading Murdoch...
...studio football field are about to transform baseball, or try to. Since its first broadcast less than two years ago, Fox Sports has left a sizable imprint on televised sports with innovative gimmicks, over-the-top commentary and a philosophy of fun with games. Started from scratch when Rupert Murdoch landed an N.F.L. television contract in 1993, Fox Sports has made imitators out of skeptics. But then the whole idea of a fourth network was once considered impossible...