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...(Financial Times)(Wall Street Journal) Weak TI results echo Intel: Texas Instruments reported falling sales and forecast Q4 revenues below expectations because of weakening economic conditions....
...Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, Time Warner and Texas Pacific Group are among five foreign companies expected to show interest in assets belonging to Turkey's second-biggest media group this week, but international...
...The deal follows the merger last November of Hill & Knowlton and Public Strategies, two WPP-owned consultancies based in New York and Texas respectively....
...The private equity group, led by Madison Dearborn, Providence Equity Partners, Texas Pacific Group, Thomas H Lee and Saban Capital, suffered heavy paper losses as markets turned, but has grown more confident...
...As a result of that success, and the growing consumer clout of the 40m Hispanics in the US, a group of private equity firms – including Madison Dearborn, Providence and Texas Pacific Group – paid nearly...
...Clear Channel shares, which spiked earlier this week after Bain and THL raised their offer for the Texas-based company, fell 0.6 per cent to $35.75....
...runs OMD, a media buying agency owned by Omnicom, will be offered a stake in Univision when it goes private under the ownership of Saban Capital, Madison Dearborn Partners, Providence Equity Partners, Texas...
...So far, the two biggest media companies, Publishing and Broadcasting and Seven Network, have sold flagship TV and print assets to CVC and KKR respectively, in deals exceeding A$3bn ($2.4bn)....
...When a private equity consortium agreed to buy Univision Communications, the Spanish-language US broadcasting group, for $12.3bn last year, the deal easily made the top 10 list of leveraged buy-outs....
...Providence is also part of a consortium that won the auction for Univision, the Spanish-language broadcasting group, and is bidding for Tribune....
...The move follows serious talks that the Texas-based company has held with a number of private equity groups that have been studying a takeover of the group....
...It enjoys a monopoly in broadcasting public TV and radio and has a strong position with commercial TV and radio companies....
...The deal involves Texas Pacific Group, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Providence Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners and Saban Capital paying $36.25 a share....
...Lee Partners and Texas Pacific Group were considering an offer....
...Texas Pacific Group and Thomas H....
...Lee Partners and Texas Pacific Group are also expected to make an offer in the coming days. Stand by for a bidding war....
...Private equity groups Eurazeo, Spectrum Equity Investors, Texas Pacific Group, Cinven and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners own 90 per cent of Eutelsat....
...Broadcasting and professional video services accounted for 68 per cent of its revenues this year, with data and value added services contributing 22 per cent....
...In 2003, he became chairman of Immedia Broadcasting before the Aim flotation of the in-store radio-station operator....
...I've never had a great memory and I'm shit on LP titles," he remarked with characteristic self-mockery in an interview this summer....
...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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