Barclays also believes that a new sports network could represent another leg of growth for News Corp and rates News Corp.
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So, in view of Mr Hunt's publicly stated admiration for News Corp and Rupert Murdoch, he probably now needs to demonstrate that he was not doing a favour to News Corp by permitting the negotiation of these remedies - which ultimately involved News Corp promising to spin-off 61% of Sky News.
Also on Monday, ratings agency Fitch said it would view a regulatory block of the attempted acquisition of BSkyB as "negative" for News Corp and Macquarie downgraded News Corp. to "underperform" due to the regulatory uncertainty.
In a joint statement issued on Wednesday morning, the leaders of Scotland's three main opposition parties united to call on Mr Salmond to "urgently appear" before the Scottish Parliament to answer questions over his relationship with the Murdochs and News Corp subsidiary News International.
We believe that Disney has superior pricing power to News Corp and therefore our margin forecast for News Corp stands at a lower value of around 40%.
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Those talks came after Tronchetti and News Corp (nyse: NWS - news - people ) Chairman Rupert Murdoch failed to agree on a deal to deliver News Corp's media content, such as sports and movies, to Telecom Italia's broadband TV customers.
With all the aggravation and worldwide attention that the hacking scandal has attracted, News Corp. eventually shuttered the 168-year old News of the World, whose illicit activities led to the arrest of several News Corp. executives and resulted in parliamentary hearings in London and investigations of the scope of the scandal.
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We wrote an article last year (see Avatar Has Minimal Impact on News Corp Stock) wherein we examined the profits that Avatar generated for News Corp.
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BSkyB's share price fell throughout the day, falling to about 670p when News Corp put out its statement, well below the 700p level that News Corp offered for them in June 2010.
Those talks came after Tronchetti and News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch failed to agree on a deal to deliver News Corp's media content, such as sports and movies, to Telecom Italia's broadband TV customers.
Undertakings from the board of News Corp are only valuable if the regulators can be confident that the board of News Corp has sufficient control over the organisation for the undertakings to be followed.
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Granted, they work for competitors that might be happy to see News Corp and its newspapers suffer, but they know the story of the ever-widening News Corp scandals better than anyone.
In March 2011, two months after British police reopened a dormant probe into phone hacking at the News of the World, News Corp. announced that the younger Mr. Murdoch would move to New York to become News Corp.
The fallout has cost News Corp. hundreds of millions of dollars in legal costs and led to the closure of the News of the World, a raft of criminal and civil cases and the collapse of News Corp.
News Corp. shares closed down 7.6% on the Nasdaq on Monday, amid new allegations that News Corp. newspapers hacked the family health records and bank accounts of former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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It was directed against News Corp's directors for overpaying when the company bought Shine Group, a UK TV production company, from News Corp's chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth.
At the time--and through late October, until EchoStar won the bidding--News Corp. had been intent on acquiring DirecTV from General Motors, at a price that would have strained the News Corp. balance sheet.
The Wall Street Journal, which first revealed the possibility of News Corp splitting in two, said that the Murdoch family, which has 40% of the voting shares in News Corp, would retain control of both separate firms.
The BSkyB takeover was dropped after the phone hacking scandal at News Corp newspaper the News of the World came to light.
News Corp. was on the brink of winning the relevant approvals last July when the deal which would have been the biggest in News Corp.
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News Corp. has previously acknowledged that phone hacking took place between 2004 and 2006, a period that excludes the editorship of Rebekah Brooks, now chief executive of News International, News Corp.
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He owns 7% of the voting shares of News Corp. (not 7% of the company, as other media outlets have reported today), as well a stake in Apple and Middle Eastern media and music group Rotana (which is partly owned by News Corp).
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In that sense, the UK's largest media company seems undented by the crisis at its largest shareholder, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp which owns 39% of BSkyB - and which supplies the chairman of BSkyB, James Murdoch, also chairman of News Corp's UK operations.
"Recognizing that an offer from News Corp. could be in the interests of BSkyB shareholders in the future, and that obtaining any necessary merger clearances would facilitate such an offer, BSkyB has agreed to cooperate with News Corp. in seeking those clearances from the relevant authorities, " say the directors.
The inquiry's lead questioner, Robert Jay, pointed to a raft of internal News Corp. emails that detailed the relationship the media conglomerate developed with Jeremy Hunt, the U.K. Secretary of State for Culture, Media, Olympics and Sport, the minister who ultimately became responsible for deciding whether to approve News Corp.
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News Corp. and its News International unit in the U.K. have said they are cooperating with all three police probes.
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Al Jean, an executive producer for the show, said one Fox joke involved a parody of the news "crawl" running on News Corp. cable-news network Fox News.
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Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp business owns the News of the World's publisher News International, is due to arrive in the UK to take charge of handling the phone-hacking crisis.
But the group became active again Monday, claiming responsibility for hacking the British newspaper The Sun in retaliation for the unexplained death of a whistleblower who first revealed the phone hacking practices of News Corp. sister paper News Of The World.
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