Sentences with phrase «of media empires»

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.

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

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.

As News Corp's shares slid in New York and legal problems threatened to engulf the rest of his media empire, Mr Murdoch launched a vigorous defence of his own handling of the scandal and of the conduct of his son, James.

On the heels of that trial, Mr. Walsh successfully represented Mr. Redstone in the battle for control of his media empire in a series of high - profile legal proceedings in the courts of Delaware, Massachusetts, and California.

Not exact matches

After several high - profile departures at the media arm of Michael Bloomberg's empire, the future looks increasingly unclear

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

Michael Donovan, the executive chairman of DHX Media, built an empire by capitalizing on kids» TV characters with evergreen appeal.

Reid believes the breadth of Murdoch's empire could be an advantage and questions whether the average media consumer is aware that Fox News and the Wall Street Journal are owned by News Corp. «With the layman, that can work to their advantage,» he says.

Birthed one of the first female media moguls: In 1988, he turned the Playboy empire over to his daughter, Christine - the first time he wasn't in power since the 1953 launch.

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

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.

Revenues grew 7.2 per cent to $ 323.5 million mainly from the recent acquisition of 24 Empire theatres in the Atlantic provinces and digital media company EK3 Technologies Inc., which has been renamed Cineplex Digital Networks.

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.

At an age when most of his contemporaries are working on their golf swings (if they can still make it around 18 holes), Jim Pattison continues building his $ 8.4 - billion business empire, which includes media holdings, automotive sales and grocery stores.

When it comes to old - fashioned media moguls who control their empires with an iron fist, Viacom's Sumner Redstone is right up there with the best of them.

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.

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.

Big Idea: Oldest son of Rupert Murdoch has returned to his father's empire as non-executive co-chairman of News Corp. and 20th Century Fox after quitting his executive positions in the pre-split News Corp. in 2005 — and relinquishing his status as heir presumptive — to build his own radio and TV group, Nova, with James Packer, scion of another Australian media dynasty.

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

Shane Smith, CEO of Vice Media, whose empire of scrappy young journalists and content producers was recently valued at $ 2.5 billion

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Prophecies such as Daniel 2 (which secular scholars suggest was written around 200 BC) shows the rise and fall of the major world empires of the Middle East and Europe from Babylon, to Media Persia, to Greece, Rome, and then the division of Rome into it's separate kingdoms which became modern Europe.

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

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.

Egyptian state - controlled media regularly broadcast the anti-Judaic and anti-Christian sermons that jihadist religious leaders preach on Fridays, and the history lessons in the state - controlled schools rarely mention the centuries when Egypt was a majority - Christian province of the caliph's empire.

An empire of books, conferences, products, and media has evolved from a subtle repositioning the poem's intended audience from that of men to that of women.

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Interpreting the symbolism, it indicates the writer's expectation that in the great moment, when final victory was to come supernaturally to «the saints of the Most High,» the three empires, Babylon, Media, and Persia, would continue, right into the new age, changed only in that their imperial rule was taken from them.

LvG buys Falcao and he is in the process of re-building (ie re-buying) an empire in a masterly fashion — you can guess the media take if Wenger had bought him — «Le Prof's big risk last - minute panic buy».

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.

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.

[284] Karl Grossman, a professor of journalism at State University of New York at Old Westbury, accused Murdoch of building the most «dishonest, unprincipled and corrupt» media empire in history and of «making a travesty of what journalism is supposed to be about.»

After dealing with frontline politics in This House and Coalition, Graham turns his gaze on the transformation of the Sun from a sinking broadsheet into the tabloid bedrock of the Murdoch media empire.

Empire State Democrats fared just fine in the top - of - the - ticket races: Democratic Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer coasted with more than 60 percent of the vote, and despite the national media attention lavished on upstart Republican gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino, Democrat Andrew Cuomo sailed to victory by a margin of 27 points.