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...If the 123mn US viewers who watched the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers suggests that the death of traditional live television has been greatly exaggerated, consider that just days before...
...The Premier League charged Leicester City with an alleged breach of its financial regulations and for “failing to submit” audited financial accounts”....
...(The New Yorker) We can do it With Adam Neumann out, the top job at WeWork has been split between a former chief financial officer of Time Warner Cable and a former executive at Amazon....
...Under former parent Time Warner, HBO executives were given autonomy as long as the company hit profit targets....
...(FT) FedEx Texas explosion A package destined for an address in Austin, Texas, exploded at a FedEx distribution facility near San Antonio, reportedly hurting an employee....
...Flag as Important AT&T has been told by the US Department of Justice that it needs to sell CNN, Time Warner’s cable news channel, to get its $84.5bn acquisition of the media company approved, according...
...The story goes that Kelleher drew out the business plan as a triangle of cities in Texas while dining with the friend in a San Antonio restaurant. The rest is of course history....
...That made the city second only to Denver and San Francisco (which is firmly in the grip of a new housing bubble)....
...Buys the Sun and relaunches it as a tabloid. 1973: Enters US, purchasing the San Antonio Express and the San Antonio News 1976: Buys New York Post from Dorothy Schiff for $30m 1979: News Corp is reorganised...
...These include Portland, Salt Lake City, Nashville and Atlanta, where Comcast has networks, and San Antonio, Charlotte and Raleigh, which fall within Time Warner Cable’s footprint....
...“We are not depriving any consumer of choice. There is no Time Warner Cable customer today that can buy Comcast broadband, and there is no Comcast customer that can buy Time Warner Cable broadband.”...
...Mr Bennack began work at 17 as a classified advertising salesman for the San Antonio Light, the Hearst-owned newspaper in his native city....
...Time Warner Cable has also expressed interested in the Dodgers’ rights – the company recently struck a 20-year broadcasting deal with the Los Angeles Lakers basketball franchise worth a reported $3bn....
...A couple of years ago, an irate hedge fund investor marched into the office of Tom Stringfellow, chief investment officer of Frost Investment Advisors, in San Antonio, Texas....
...But the group, which is run out of Texas and San Francisco, declined to give any specific terms other than to note that “the investment represents less than 5 per cent of the economics of the TPG businesses...
...The second wave of sporting globalisation began in about 1990. This time the carriers of sport were not mustachioed Britons, but cable TV....
...Comcast and Time Warner....
...Clear Channel traces its roots to 1972, when Lowry Mays, the current chairman, teamed up with Texas businessman Red McCombs to buy KEEZ-FM, a local radio station in San Antonio, Texas, for $125,000....
...Meanwhile Clear Channel Communications, which the Mays family built from a small San Antonio radio station into the biggest power on the US airwaves, is in the throes of a $26.5bn buy-out by Thomas H....
...Her idea of creating a website catering to women attracted big-time funding from AOL and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers....
...It was the Azcarraga family, which controls Televisa, that founded Univision’s forerunner in 1961 when they rebroadcast their programming across the border in San Antonio, Texas....
...“Some may interpret this move as an indication of greater than expected pressure from Time Warner's VoIP roll-out in Texas.”...
...They ranged from long-time Democrats to David Bonderman, head of Texas Pacific, a private equity group, and former supporter of Mr Bush....
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