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...Ayelet Mavor, head of impact at Minute Media, a digital publisher whose titles include The Players’ Tribune and 90Min.com, said brands should be “all over” women’s football to reach new audiences, including...
...One afternoon, sitting at home, I was disturbed by an American woman broadcasting her loud conversation on speakerphone from the balcony of the next flat....
...The same issues are coming to the fore in local TV broadcasting, which may be on a similar trajectory because of the rise of streaming....
...In 2014, after Tribune spun off its papers from its broadcasting business, the newspapers alone had been worth around $1bn; now Tribune’s market capitalisation hovers around $560m, even after Alden’s takeover...
...In 1999, political cartoonist Martin Rowson sat in on one of the regular Tribune dinners and started sketching the participants....
...Plenty of US investors have flooded into football in recent years, attracted by the huge worldwide interest in the sport and its multibillion-dollar broadcasting deals....
...Its $46.50 offer trumped the $43.50 deal Tribune had initially struck with Sinclair, which represented a 15 per cent premium to Tribune’s closing stock price on Friday....
...Sinclair, a conservative powerhouse of local stations, tried to buy Tribune but the deal fell apart because of regulatory scrutiny....
...The company last year tried to buy rival Tribune, but the deal was ultimately scuppered by regulators....
...Consolidation makes particular sense in local broadcasting....
...It could also be a boon for Sinclair Broadcasting’s $3.9bn deal for Tribune Media Company, Fitch said, “as it could limit the number of stations that will need to be divested in overlapping markets and provide...
...Mr Doctor suggests the company could also look to buy another title such as the Los Angeles Times or Chicago Tribune....
...Less well known is that Trump-appointed regulators have altered competition rules to make it easier for Sinclair’s bid for Tribune Media to succeed....
...Fox and Blackstone hope to trump a rival offer from Sinclair Broadcasting, the largest owner of US television stations, and plan to form a joint venture for the deal, with Blackstone providing the cash and...
...Sinclair fended off other suitors for Tribune including Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, which explored making an offer with private equity firm Blackstone, and Nexstar Broadcasting Group, another big...
...Its plan is to combine its stations with Tribune’s, with the private equity group helping fund the combination. A bid for Tribune would be likely to have an aggregate value of $7bn....
...Sinclair won out over other bidders including Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox, which explored making an offer in concert with private equity firm Blackstone, and Nexstar Broadcasting Group, another big...
...With Tribune having a market capitalisation of $3.3bn, the interest from Fox and Blackstone should drive up any offer price that had been privately discussed between Sinclair and Tribune....
...Sinclair has a history of broadcasting conservative commentary and once blocked a broadcast of ABC’s Nightline news show that featured the names of soldiers killed in Iraq....
...A move on Tribune seems like a classic piece of defensive M&A: the Murdochs are trying to head off a rival bid from Sinclair Broadcasting, the largest owner of TV stations in the US....
...He supported Mr Trump’s candidacy and is sympathetic to the notion of broadcasting more right-leaning news and opinion on his stations....
...DailyMailTV, a syndicated show covering celebrities, gossip, human interest stories and other daytime TV staples, has been picked up by Sinclair Broadcast Group, Tribune Broadcasting and other local station...
...They hope to trump a rival offer from Sinclair Broadcasting for the $3.2bn company....
...Gannett, which also owns 92 US regional titles and the UK’s Newsquest, has been on a buying spree since it split from its broadcasting unit in 2014 as it seeks to consolidate in America’s tough newspaper...
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