Some Angelenos worry that Mr Murdoch is more interested in developing a media franchise than in owning a bit of history or rubbing shoulders with sports heroes. (Sport, he believes, attracts subscribers like nothing else.) They also worry that their team is being used as a pawn in a battle between two media empires, News Corporation and Disney.
She called on the transport secretary to "come clean ... on the full cost to taxpayers" of the collapse of the franchise, citing media reports that it could run into "hundreds of millions of pounds".
Others will read the comment as a simple reference to the effect that any poor-performing franchise in a top media market has on its respective league.
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"Coming up with content on a regular basis is the No. 1 thing franchisees say they struggle with, " says Chad Cohen, vice president at Fish Consulting, a franchise PR firm that began developing social media content for its clients three years ago.
In fact, some new franchise systems are so heavily invested in social media that it's a required part of the business.
We may have had only one owner for several generations, but the Journal has undergone enormous change: from a one-section newspaper narrowly focused on markets for subscribers in New York to today's global business franchise across print, online and other digital media platforms.
While others mourned the end of an institution, Burton saw an opportunity to reinvent the franchise for a new era, one where public media is on the decline and digital distribution is in the ascendant.
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They realize that many players have a small window for NFL fame and fortune while incurring considerable risk of injury (short term and long term), whereas the seemingly never-ending flow of media revenue serves to risklessly preserve and protect the profitability and franchise values of NFL teams.
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According to his analysis, the traditional Times franchise had been suffering steady erosion as a result of heightened media competition and the encroachment of the internet.
Such rights include media rights, sponsorship and advertising rights, licensing and merchandising rights, franchise rights, new league rights and any other commercial rights attached to any of these properties.
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The Dodgers and their financial consultants, Blackstone, want to market the team's future media rights so prospective bidders for the team will know just how much revenue the franchise can earn in its next television contract.
The California native and San Francisco 49ers fan, who had just tied a franchise record with his third straight 20-rebound game, was forced to face the media wearing a Ravens Super Bowl champion hat, payment of a lost bet with Baltimore fan Carmelo Anthony.
It unveiled first-person shooter Killzone: Mercenary, an extension to a popular franchise, and Tearaway, an adventure game set in a world made of paper, developed by Media Molecule - the team behind the best-selling LittleBigPlanet.
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