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...Having acquired business newspaper La Tribune and Marseille-based daily La Provence in the past two years, the reserved 54-year-old recently swooped for television news channel BFM....
...Drahi is a prominent figure in Israel, where he owns a television news channel and a telecoms operator, and Qatar has hosted Hamas’s political office since 2012 while pouring hundreds of millions of dollars...
...a 10 per cent stake in television channel M6, the second-biggest private broadcaster....
...Chinese officials have used a variety of state groups to take the holdings....
...Elliott Management backed a multibillion-dollar debt package to fund its takeover of television ratings provider Nielsen, helping steer the $16bn acquisition through markets that have grown warier of riskier...
...sobering series reminds us that a cold war was not, as it’s sometimes described, a tactical chess match played between poised statesmen, but a game of Russian roulette played by erratic, unstable brinksmen holding...
...But it is also saddled with declining legacy television assets and a heavy debt load....
...He even bedazzled Tucker Carlson for more than an hour about the wisdom of the cryptocurrency before the television anchor was defenestrated from Fox....
...Chipmakers like Intel, Infineon and ASE Technology Holding are increasing their manufacturing capacity in Malaysia....
...“I don’t think it is particularly attractive,” he explained on television then. “The technology is not very strong. And BYD, as a company, has pretty severe problems on their home turf.”...
...Later, in the television age, biography gave way to personality....
...As a result, streamers have been holding back shows just to make sure they have something to air if the strikes grind on....
...Steinberg, who is married to the well known US television business journalist Maria Bartiromo, is determined to fight....
...The holding company The Roy family runs a holding company — a vehicle used to control interests in other companies....
...Byju Raveendran, the company’s eponymous founder, told a television interviewer in January that the company had already “optimised on the people front” and didn’t “need to do much” to become financially...
...It didn’t feel like water exactly, but there was a definite difference between holding your hands under a virtual tap and pressing them down on a virtual kitchen countertop....
...Vice insiders and investors are holding out hope that another bidder will enter the room....
...Chapek had also been leaning towards holding on to ESPN, according to a person close to him. “But ESPN is a declining asset, and Disney has a tough balance sheet”, the person cautioned....
...Netflix, which accounts for about 25 per cent of spending on original streaming shows, said it was holding spending steady at around $17bn a year, while trying to make its shows more “impactful”....
...Chapek, too, had been leaning towards holding on to ESPN, according to a person close to him. “But ESPN is a declining asset, and Disney has a tough balance sheet....
...After its initial bid for Newcastle was resisted amid criticism about “sports washing” and allegations of television piracy, the PIF still pushed ahead with the deal....
...Jupiter’s only current holding is Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone: the £9.4mn stake was one of the fund’s largest purchases last year....
...“Through the pandemic [in] the last 12 months . . . we’ve created 60 or 70 television productions.”...
...The fact that some of the largest lenders in the US are stuck holding some of the riskiest debt may also concern regulators....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on September 26 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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