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...For Saadé, the acquisition shows his ambition to further put his mark on the French media landscape where he has already snapped up business newspaper La Tribune, the Marseille-based paper La Provence, and...
...Lucy Fisher(Laughter) Seen only in the entertainment districts of major cities....
...The Time Warner fee machine AT&T’s purchase of entertainment group WarnerMedia back in 2016 turned out to be a costly mistake for the telecoms company....
...That’s understandable when you have stories like AMC Entertainment and how Silver Lake was able to take full advantage of the Reddit rally....
...logistics arm seeks to raise up to $3.4bn in Hong Kong IPO (FT) Euler Hermes sold business fraud policy to Greensill Bank (FT) Ex-Northill team reunites to buy asset management stakes (FT) Control of Tribune...
...The company last year tried to buy rival Tribune, but the deal was ultimately scuppered by regulators....
...Otro, which launches as an app on Monday, is being funded by 23 Capital, a London-based investor and financier of sports, media and entertainment ventures....
...Sinclair needs to make divestments to garner regulatory approval for its $3.9bn pact to buy Tribune....
...Earlier this month Vogue-owner Condé Nast put three of its best known titles up for sale — Bride, Golf Digest and W — while Chicago Tribune-publisher Tronc has held negotiations on a deal to sell the company...
...Mr Murdoch’s company is keen to add to its station portfolio as it plots a new course following the looming $66bn sale of its entertainment businesses to Disney....
...“Fox’s own Fox broadcast network has essentially become a sports network as entertainment ratings have crumbled.”...
...(NYT) FCC won't let me be Trump's tweets on Sinclair Broadcast are putting the FCC's review of its deal with Tribune in a tricky spot....
...In 2013, they explored buying newspapers owned by the Tribune Company (now known as Tronc), including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, but ultimately decided against a bid....
...Critics of the Sinclair-Tribune deal have argued that it would concentrate too much power in the hands of one company and lead to increasingly biased news coverage....
...Mr Bannon’s White House exit and Sinclair’s bid for Tribune come as conservative-leaning commentary is in flux....
...One of those measures would see Disney acquire Sky News, regardless of whether or not the entertainment company proceeds with its deal to acquire most of Fox....
...“We are pleased to be streamlining our company so that we can focus even more intently on seizing future opportunities for our local television and entertainment business,” said Peter Liguori, Tribune Media...
...US TV stations already carry a number of syndicated entertainment shows, including Page Six TV, based on the New York Post’s gossip section, TMZ and Entertainment Tonight....
...Wednesday’s ruling on a proposal from New Zealand Media and Entertainment and Fairfax NZ comes as global regulators face a swath of contentious mergers and growing concentration in an industry facing falls...
...Mr Ellis is one of 11 former editors warning New Zealand’s Competition Commission against sanctioning a proposed merger between Fairfax NZ and New Zealand Media and Entertainment, which publishes the Herald...
...(FT, WSJ, WaPo) Fox and Blackstone team up Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox is in talks with Blackstone, the private equity firm, to launch a joint bid for Tribune Media....
...This mix of entertainment and news, and news masquerading as entertainment, is kind of funny except that we now have a guy who is a product of that world nominated as Republican presidential candidate.”...
...News Corp split from 21st Century in 2013, while Tribune spun off its publishing business, which includes print publications such as the Los Angeles Times, in 2014....
...Operating revenue for the quarter fell 1 per cent to $547.6m, with revenue at its core television and entertainment unit hit by a fall in political advertising revenue due to 2015 being an off-cycle political...
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