Word: warners
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...treated content as something that its software managers can create from scratch. But given the relative cheapness of some media stocks compared with that of Microsoft, Gates may someday look for some big acquisitions (he was in serious talks about taking a $2 billion stake in CNN before Time Warner merged with Turner Communications), and Buffett would be a useful partner...
...Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner If the world of telecommunications were a playground, the two moguls would be given a timeout. Irked that the Fox News Network wasn't on the Time Warner cable system in New York, Murdoch called in the friendly muscle of Mayor Rudy Giuliani, used his New York Post newspaper to question Turner's sanity, and hired a blimp to fly over Turner's Braves during the World Series with the message, ted, play baseball, not monopoly. Turner, for his part, continually rants about Murdoch, once comparing him to "the late Fuhrer." A far better tack...
Super Bowl Blackout? NEW YORK CITY: For most football fans in five cities serviced by Time Warner cable, the long-running dispute between Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch was little more than a battle between two egotistical billionaires. That has all changed now that Time Warner and Fox are in the midst of a game of chicken that could cut off access of the Fox network to 1.5 million viewers just as the NFL playoffs and Super Bowl are set to begin. Time Warner says Fox is threatening to pull its signal in five cities -- Austin, Texas; Tampa, Florida; Kansas...
...single year's giving, rather than by a lifetime of charity, causes distortions too. Microsoft head Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett, for instance, have said they intend to give away most of their money in the end. And Turner, who became vice chairman of Time Warner in October, did not make the initial list, even though he has made gifts totaling $200 million in the past few years. Still, if the Slate 60 works as Turner predicts, that could be his greatest gift of all: making conspicuous giving the newest status symbol for those who have everything...
JACK NICHOLSON Warner Bros.' Mars Attacks! star bronzed on Hollywood Walk of Fame 11 years after Bugs...