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Rupert Murdoch, U.S. television network affiliate switches of 1994, List of Austar channels, Viet D. Dinh, Rod Eddington, Lachlan Murdoch, James Murdoch, Tom Perkins, Peter Chernin, Wendi Deng, Andrew Knight, Paul Rigby, Rupert Murdoch, U.S.televisio
ISBN/EAN: 9781157660514
Umbreit-Nr.: 3348504
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Englisch
Umfang: 32 S.
Format in cm: 0.2 x 24.6 x 18.9
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Erschienen am 29.06.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
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- Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Rupert Murdoch, U.S. television network affiliate switches of 1994, List of Austar channels, Viet D. Dinh, Rod Eddington, Lachlan Murdoch, James Murdoch, Tom Perkins, Peter Chernin, Wendi Deng, Andrew Knight, Paul Rigby, United Press International Television News, Andrew Lam, Fox Star Studios, Chase Carey, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, DailyFill, Les Hinton, Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, £9.50 Holidays, Lawrence Jacobs, Arthur Siskind, STAR TV, Greg Meidel, David DeVoe. Excerpt: The United States television network affiliate switches of 1994 were a series of events resulting from a multi-million dollar deal between Fox Broadcasting Company, known commonly as Fox, and New World Communications, an owner of several VHF television stations affiliated with major networks, primarily CBS. The major impetus for the changes was to improve local coverage of the fledgling network's new National Football League packages. As a result of various other deals that followed as a result of the affiliation switches, most notably the buyout of CBS by Westinghouse, the switches constituted some of the most sweeping changes in American television history. Nearly 70 stations in 30 media markets throughout the United States changed affiliations starting in the fall of 1994 and continuing through early 1996. For some time, Rupert Murdoch, chief executive officer of News Corporation, the parent company of the Fox network, lusted after a major-league sports presence for his network. He thought that landing a live sports broadcasting package would elevate Fox to the level of ABC, CBS and NBC, the other nationwide broadcast networks in the United States at the time. In 1987, the network bid for Monday Night Football, then the NFL's crown-jewel program, but the offer was rejected. Six years later, Fox stunned the sports and TV worlds by acquiring partial rights to the NFL. The package - covering four seasons of games involving teams in the National Football Conference, as well as Super Bowl XXXI, a package previously owned by CBS - cost Fox $1.58 billion. CBS, then run by the cost-cutting Laurence Tisch, had reportedly bid only $290 million and was unwilling to even approach the Fox offer. At the time of Fox's bid, most of its affiliates were lower-powered UHF stations. As Fox put together its new sports division to cover the NFL, it wanted to affiliate with VHF stations that had lower channel numbers (channels 2 to 13), more established histories, and carried more valu