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MUMBAI: Reflecting the burgeoning growth of its business in America Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate News Corp is planning to shift its incorporation to the US from...
CANNES: We have heard of direct to home television. Move over, its now time for direct to mobile television. News Corp senior vice-president content and marketing...
NEW DELHI: European television format, production and distribution company Fact Based Communications (FBC) is gearing up to enter Indian market, following a tie-up with Rossellini &...
MUMBAI: Former Star group COO Bruce Churchill is assuming greater responsibility within Hughes Electronics following Murdoch’s News Corp’s 34 per cent aquisition of the company. He...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has reported consolidated revenues of $5.6 billion for the second quarter ended December 2003. This represents a 19 per cent increase...
MUMBAI: Following the $66 billion unsolicited bid made by US cable TV biggie Comcast for the Walt Disney Company yesterday, many developments have come forth from...
MUMBAI: The Bamboo Curtain is finally parting. Having realised the vast potential its media industry holds, China has loosened some of the tightest fetters that shackled...
MUMBAI: The John Malone owned media conglomerate Liberty Media yesterday announced the acquisition of 9.15 per cent voting interest in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation Limited. ...
MUMBAI / NEW DELHI: News Corp’s Star Group and Tata Sons today announced the inking of a deal for a 20:80 joint venture agreement for a...
NEW DELHI: Sell, sell and sell more to get out of debt. Dispose off those businesses that are either not profitable or where the shareholding is...
MUMBAI: Fox Television Entertainment group chairman Sandy Grushow is stepping down to launch a Twentieth Century Fox-based production company called Phase Two. Grushow’s contract was set...
MUMBAI: As an answer to MTV’s dominant music video and pop culture programming, leading record label company Universal Music Group is planning to launch a music...
MUMBAI: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has okayed News Corp’s takeover of DirecTV and Hughes, but has imposed certain conditions on the $6.6 billion deal. The...
WASHINGTON: Following a settlement between the US Congress and the White House, media ownership by US television networks has now been capped at 39 per cent...
WASHINGTON: The US House and Senate negotiators defied a White House veto threat on 19 November and agreed to a provision that would prevent the Federal...
WASHINGTON: The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) resumed its informal 180-day clock for reviewing News Corp Ltd’s plan to acquire control of US satellite television provider...
NEW YORK: Things are looking up at Rupert Murodoch’s media conglomerate News Corp. The company has reported that its first-quarter profit more than doubled on strong...
LONDON: In the end, the plot went just about according to script for News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch. After over a month of speculation, Murdoch’s youngest...
LONDON: NDS Group, the maker of pay TV anti-piracy equipment owned by News Corp, announced today that its first-quarter earnings rose 24 per cent to 8.34...
LONDON: Over a month of speculation on the appointment of the next CEO of British pay television operator BskyB looks likely to come to an end...
MUMBAI: Frames 2003, billed as Asia’s biggest convention on the business of entertainment, will reflect on the future direction for the mantra of corporatisation and convergence....
52-year old Peter Chernin does not come across like your typical media CEO. No flamboyance, no arrogance, no showing off. Just a regular business guy. The...
CANNES: News Corp president and chief operating officer supported and defended the group’s proposal to put Star Asia boss James Murdoch at the helm at BSkyB...
MUMBAI: News Corp’s proposed takeover of General Motor’s Hughes Electronics Corp has received shareholder approval. In a statement issued yesterday, GM said that of the stockholders...
NEW YORK: John Malone’s entertainment group Liberty Media has exercised its right under a March 2003 agreement to buy US $500 million of News Corp preferred...
MUMBAI: The “Asian” star continues its ascent. Star chairman and CEO James Murdoch looks set to have another attachment to his title – chairman of British...
MUMBAI: “A record end to a record year. The most profitable fourth quarter ever and the most profitable year in our company’s 80 years of existence.”...
NEW DELHI: Setting at rest speculations and playing safe, Media Content & Communications Services India Pvt. Ltd, which has applied for a licence to uplink content...
NEW YORK: News Corporation has announced the reorganisation of its integrated advertising and corporate marketing operations. Formerly comprising the company’s News Corp One division, these operations...
MUMBAI: News Corp’s Hong Kong-based Star Group has set up a new arm in Dubai Media City. Star will be using its Dubai Media City facility...
LONDON: The litigation between News Corp’s NDS and Canal Plus may have been resolved earlier this year but Rupert Murdoch still has a fight on his...
MUMBAI: Global media major News Corp last Friday formally applied to the US federal communications commission (FCC) for clearance of its $ 6.6 billion stock and...
LONDON: Rupert Murdoch has strengthened the Murdoch family presence on the board of BSkyB by appointing his son non executive director. 30 year old James Murdoch...
LOS ANGELES : The US movie and the music industries have published a guide to help companies prevent copyright abuse on their computers and plan to...
MUMBAI: There’s no slowing down the septuagenarian media baron Rupert Murdoch. Wendi and Rupert Murdoch – getting ready to change diapers again Even as his...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s Star Group has won nationwide landing rights for Xing Kong Wei Shi, its Mandarin-language entertainment channel. With this , it joins the league...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch may be having problems getting clearance for his Star News and DTH projects in India but in China he appears to be making...
HONG KONG: The Star Group has signed an agreement to form a strategic alliance with Hunan Broadcast Group. The agreement represents a framework for joint financing...
HONG KONG: News Corp technology arm NDS today announced the opening of its set-top box (STB) testing and integration laboratory in Seoul, South Korea. The lab...
NEW DELHI: The long wait is over. Some global media companies like Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, The National Geographic Society, the UK-based Pearson group and Australian...
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp yesterday reported first quarter consolidated revenues of $3.8 billion (1 July to 30 June financial), a 12% increase over the $3.4...
ATLANTA (Georgia): Cable television set-top box maker Scientific-Atlanta announced on Monday that it won another round in its legal battle with the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Gemstar-TV Guide...
NEW YORK, PARIS: News Corporation and Telecom Italia have signed a definitive agreement with Vivendi Universal and the Canal+ Group to acquire Telepiu, the Italian pay-TV...
LOS ANGELES: Media conglomerate Vivendi Universal is said to be completing talks over the sale of its Italian pay TV operator to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp....
MUMBAI: Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate News Corp has reported a full year net loss of $6.3 billion because of another write-down in its stake in the...
MUMBAI: Media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is reportedly examining the possibility of launching a new network devoted entirely to the reality genre. The tentatively titled...
MUMBAI: News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch and elder son Lachlan are being sued by shareholders in TV guide company Gemstar over the $30 billion fall in...
MUMBAI: Somebody’s loss is usually someone else’s gain. News Corp controlled British satellite TV operator BSkyB has reported a big jump in subscriber numbers built to...
MUMBAI: News Corp controlled UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB has obtained the UK telecast rights of the ICC World Cup tournament to be played in March 2003...
Ravina Raj Kohli is stepping into high gear. Back from a month-long tour of News Corp’s news operations in the US, the UK, east Asia, she...
