Sentences with phrase «about media conglomerate»

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Shares of Disney (DIS), the media conglomerate that owns ESPN, have been under pressure for much of the past year — primarily because of concerns about the sports network.

In the filing, Disney and Fox said the ongoing antitrust scrutiny of U.S. telecommunications provider AT&T Inc's (T.N) planned merger with media conglomerate Time Warner Inc (TWX.N) heightened concerns about potential regulatory hurdles to Comcast's bid.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Vivendi Chairman Vincent Bolloré said on April 19 that he was about to ask the company's supervisory board to appoint his son Yannick as the new chairman of the French media conglomerate.

«In an era when our nation is increasingly concerned about the spread of fake news, it is unacceptable that a media conglomerate like Sinclair would force our trusted local news anchors to push a one - sided political agenda, valuing partisan politics over informing the American public,» Rhodes said.

Amazon and Hachette — a big US publisher and part of a $ 10 billion media conglomerate — are in the middle of a business dispute about e-books.

However, as subsidiaries of large media conglomerates, the executives who ran the big six had all been given their marching orders about the internet: DRM restrictions would be mandatory on all ebook sales, lest rampant piracy cannibalize their sales of paper books.

If 200 patrons bought the book at the store, given the standard bookstore wholesale discount of 20 percent, that means about $ 1,000 in the bank for St. Mark's and $ 4,000 for Moore's publisher, Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group USA, which is in turn a subsidiary of French multinational media conglomerate Lagardère.

So, as George Monbiot put it in an elegant proposal on Viewsnight recently, kick big money out of politics, dismantle the media conglomerates, and let's have a real discussion about the economy.

I feel like they understand the plights of authoritarian governing practices and capitalism gone awry when they tell jokes about the Trump administration and media conglomerates.