Sentences with phrase «murdoch media empire»

Dauman says she is bent on seizing control of his $ 42 billion media empire, contrary to his longstanding wishes.

As a media empire reliant upon advertising revenue, the ultimate threat to News Corp. is «scandal creep» where the problem migrates to other properties and other ventures, says Veritas» Reid.

The reason for Facebook's social media empire and Spotify's upending of the music streaming business?

Oprah Winfrey's résumé is already impressive: The self - made billionaire entrepreneur has created her own media empire and become an active philanthropist.

Njoku admits that starting on YouTube in 2010 and building a successful global media empire has brought its challenges.

The ignominious departure of former Fox News star Bill O'Reilly — like the earlier exit of his former boss, Fox chairman Roger Ailes — has focused a lot of attention on the Murdoch media empire.

How to build a US$ 100 - million global media empire on a foundation of rock star living and canny business sense.

Nicole «Snooki» Polizzi, Mike «The Situation» Sorrentino and DJ Pauly D have parlayed their MTV hit into a minor media empire, creating workout videos, appearing on late - night talk shows, scoring endorsement deals for vodka, bronzer and pistachios — even writing a novel and getting a gig on Dancing With the Stars.

Synopsis: Kane raised himself up by his bootstraps, beginning his entrepreneurial career by taking control of a small - town newspaper and building a media empire.

Recently, you had a $ 140 million judgment against Gawker Media, declared bankruptcy and put the media empire you founded up for sale.

When she retired from the runway, Banks set her sights on building a media empire, launched Bankable Productions in 2003 and inked a deal with Warner Bros..

Playboy Enterprises, the company behind the experimental media empire, announced Wednesday that it will launch a crypto payment wallet across its digital content and online games.

Beyond her uber famous brother, she talks about her own growing media empire.

My burgeoning media empire consists of two people (my lovely wife and me), but to the outside world we seem a lot bigger, thanks to online applications.

And yet, despite all this, Rupert Murdoch and his sons James and Lachlan are selling the majority of their media empire to Disney now, instead of waiting.

Another lesson would be the risks involved in being part of a money - losing venture inside a corporate bean - counting media empire like ESPN.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire on Thursday shut down the 168 - year - old muckraking tabloid, which has been engulfed by allegations its journalists paid police for information and hacked into the phone messages of celebrities, young murder victims and even the grieving families of dead soldiers.

Instead, flush with venture capital, these surging new media empires will see struggling old media companies knocking on their doors.

Brent, in his lawsuit, had sought to dissolve the family media empire and cash out his one - sixth stake in National Amusements.

He made an abrupt switch, however, as his News Corp. company struggled to contain a U.K. crisis that is threatening his entire global media empire.

The trigger for the latest Redstone family feud, according to several sources, was a dispute over corporate governance issues — such as Shari's effort to more closely tie executive compensation to performance — at Viacom (viab) and CBS (cbs), a media empire that encompasses MTV, the CBS broadcast network, the Paramount film studio and the pay - TV channel Showtime.

Turner began building his media empire in 1963 at the age of 24 where he took over running his father's billboard company.

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF FORBES: The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire (St. Martin's) Stewart Pinkerton

For more than seven months, Sumner Redstone, now 93 and barely able to speak, has asserted (through lawyers and PR teams) that he remains mentally competent — sharp enough to change his health care agent, to erase a $ 70 million bequest to an ex-girlfriend from his will, and, most important, to remain in control of Viacom (VIAB) and CBS (CBS), the jewels in his $ 42 - billion media empire.

He also said there were questions to be answered by James Murdoch, the heir - apparent to his father's media empire.

With Redstone's daughter, Shari, backing her father's replacement at one of those media companies, but opposing the other, Elkind investigates whether or not there will be peace in the media empire.

But anyone in a position like his — at the head of a media empire — ought to have the good judgment not to do things that require such public apology in the first place.

The succession question seems to be taking on new urgency after three sources say Ailes threatened to quit this summer when Murdoch elevated his sons, Lachlan and James, to take over the media empire.

Péladeau has been urged in many quarters to sell his shares in the Quebecor media empire to erase any concerns about conflict of interest.

Vancouver - based HootSuite published a Game of Thrones - style video showcasing social media empires today.

Dissident shareholders of Twenty - First Century Fox Inc. (formerly part of the News Corp. media empire) are pushing Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch to give up the dual - class structure at the film and television company.

Redstone's truculence is reminiscent of her father Sumner, who built his media empire around Viacom cable networks MTV and Nickelodeon, later adding CBS and Paramount film studios.

It's a landmark deal that also unravels the media empire Rupert Murdoch had built over 60 years.

The Mouse House is close to buying some of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, to better compete with Netflix.

Lawyers for Redstone are seeking to remove two members of the board of the trust that will eventually control Redstone's media empire, which...

They make a difference, no doubt, but they are increasingly fighting to maintain their niches in media empires that are more and more out of touch with the American reality.

Christmas has largely become this jacked - up faith's glitzy high holy day, marked by the kind of consuming and spending and barn - building that bears very little resemblance to a Jesus who was born in anonymous poverty, ministered while homeless and altered the planet without a budget, church building, tax exemption or media empire.

he can count the value of his «family Radio» media empire, estimated by the IRS to be worth $ 72 million dollars.

Since exploding onto the nation's movie screens from seemingly nowhere in 2005, Tyler Perry has created a media empire that has been nearly unprecedented in movie history.

These generate the dynamics of concentration and conglomeration that tend toward the creation of an electronically - based global media empire.

And secondly, there was the article published at Charisma News — once our flagship media empire but sadly now descended into fear - mongering and poorly disguised click - bait to incite emotional reactions.

Our country has never needed the Gospel more than now, yet instead of rising to the occasion, the Church is busy building its media empire and bickering amongst ourselves.

His increasingly widespread media empire is now worth $ 72 million, and according to the IRA (reported in the NY Times), Family Radio has over $ 23 million invested in long term stocks and bonds.

The Murdoch media empire faces another difficult decision in the coming hours.

Ed Miliband has risked the ire of the Murdoch media empire with a demand for an inquiry into phone - hacking.

Whatever the reason, the news will come as a further blow to Mr Murdoch, who has watched his global media empire come under attack on several fronts since the scandal over alleged phone - hacking at the News of the World hit the front pages.

With the continued expansion of the Murdoch media empire projected for the coming years, the likelihood of further media liberalisation towards Fox news - style political discourse in the UK & the likes of Dan Hannan waiting in the wings, the Left should be cautious in welcoming such arguments to the mainstream political conversation so soon.

He is Mr Cameron's link to the Murdoch media empire, which the Conservative leader has cultivated with the same care that Tony Blair did 15 years ago.

What we have today on the ground are huge unrestricted financial machines, running media empires ranging from multiple TV and radio stations to daily newspapers, and constantly campaigning and buying voter loyalties on the ground with their money.

That revelation is being seized on by critics of the prime minister as evidence of the inappropriate closeness of his relationship with senior figures in Rupert Murdoch's media empire.