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...Chase's sights are less celestial. "There are these gaps of seven minutes I have to fill between commercials," he allows. "And we'll have some guests on. Ultimately, you have to understand that this is only TV. Silliness. Chewing gum." And what is the show for Fox boss Rupert Murdoch, who is banking big on the show, and to whom Chase jovially offered the job of bandleader? "For Rupert, it's just a breath mint...
...helping American culture proliferate, Rupert Murdoch has locked himself into the rising fortunes of the Asian middle class, which is now, by anyone's measure, the most upwardly mobile group in the world...
...holder of the key to such a vast market, STAR TV has been the object of an extended bidding war among giant international media companies. Last week a winner emerged: Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which acquired nearly two-thirds of the fast-growing, money-losing satellite television service for $525 million. In making the buy, Murdoch beat out Britain's Pearson PLC as well as Americans Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting, which were also rumored to be interested in STAR...
...RUPERT MURDOCH...
...York Post, America's oldest continuously published daily, is apparently out of business; provisional publisher Rupert Murdoch dropped his bid to buy the tabloid after he and the unions failed to agree on cost cuts. The Saturday edition of the paper was canceled, and staff members started cleaning out their desks. The unprofitable paper's fate was left in the hands of a bankruptcy court this week, but plausible new buyers seemed unlikely to appear...