Is this Armageddon for Murdoch and NewsCorp?

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What's it going to take to get honest Government ?

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What's it going to take to get honest Government ?

The end of the world with no humans left on it Panda!

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Panda wrote:

What's it going to take to get honest Government ?

The end of the world with no humans left on it Panda!

It's a terrible thought , Britain has truly sunk to the depths , I think Tony Blair was the worst offender , Gordon Brown no better and now Cameron is
proving to be just as corrupted , sounds selfish but I'm glad I am not growing up today.

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THOSE PRICES ARE TOO HIGH,I AM ONLY ON BENEFITS

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NWSA) is taking steps to start a national U.S. sports network on cable television aimed at challenging Walt Disney Co. (DIS)’s ESPN, according to people with knowledge of the situation.

News Corp. is assembling the required rights from pay-TV carriers and sports organizations, said the people, who requested anonymity because talks are private. While a final decision to move forward hasn’t been made, the company is considering converting its Fuel action-sports network to the new channel, two of the people said.





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With a national network, Fox would join Comcast Corp. (CMCSA)’s NBC Sports Network and CBS Corp. (CBS)’s CBS Sports Network in taking on the dominant ESPN. News Corp. last year secured rights to the Pac-12 Conference and Big-12 Conference games and owns 20 regional sports networks. The company in October won TV rights to soccer’s World Cup in 2018 and 2022.

“The success of all these networks will depend on the quality of their sports rights,” David Joyce, an analyst at Miller Tabak & Co. in New York, said in an interview. “There’s been a lot of competition for those rights and that’s driven up costs.”

ESPN is well-positioned to withstand competition because of its rights for Monday Night Football and national baseball and basketball games, Joyce said.

A national sports channel can capture higher affiliate fees from pay-TV providers such as Comcast and DirecTV, according to research firm SNL Kagan. ESPN will command $5.06 per subscriber per month this year, the most of any cable channel, SNL Kagan estimates.

Dodgers Sale

That would help pay for sports rights that are growing ever more expensive. Fox, for example, holds rights to broadcast Los Angeles Dodgers games through next year, and exclusive negotiating rights to renew through late this year. The price is likely to go up with the team’s planned sale, for a record $2 billion, to a group led by basketball hall of fame player Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Partners Chief Executive Officer Mark Walter.

Fuel, a 24-hour action-sports network that carries mixed- martial arts fights, is available in 36 million U.S. homes, according to Fox.

In addition to Fox Sports Net regional channels and Fuel, News Corp. owns motor-sport network Speed, available in 78 million homes, the Fox Soccer Channel, the Big Ten Network, a partnership with the college sports conference, and Fox College Sports, consisting of Pacific, Central and Atlantic regional networks. News Corp. also shows games on broadcast television through Fox Sports.

Leverage the Channel

To compete with ESPN and NBC Sports, Fox will need to make an attractive offer to sports organizations and teams, said Neal Pilson, president of Pilson Communications and former head of CBS Sports.

“The way you do that is you give a new sports property exposure on the Fox broadcast network and then you put other games on the new channel,” Pilson said. “You leverage the broadcast channel to get product on the cable channel.”

The new channel could begin service by the end of this year, one person said. The effort is being led by David Hill, the chairman of Fox Sports, one person said.

News Corp., based in New York, has clearance from some carriers, including DirecTV, the biggest U.S. satellite television provider, two people said.

Lou D’Ermilio, a spokesman for Fox Sports, declined to comment, as did Darris Gringeri, a spokesman for El Segundo, California-based DirecTV. (DTV)

News Corp. fell 2.5 percent to $19.74 and Disney dropped 1.5 percent to $43.51 at the close in New York. DirecTV added 1.3 percent to $48.83.

Murdoch’s News Corp. Denies Pay-TV Piracy Reports

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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NWSA) denied reports that a pay-TV software maker it co-owned was involved in piracy aimed at toppling rivals as politicians called for an investigation of the allegations.

The News Corp. subsidiary, NDS, set up a unit in the mid-1990s to hack smartcard codes and leak them online, giving viewers free access to competitors’ programs, the Australian Financial Review newspaper reported March 28. The report, which cites internal documents and e-mails, echoes a report on the unit by the BBC’s Panorama program this week.





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“The BBC’s Panorama program was a gross misrepresentation of NDS’s role as a high quality and leading provider of technology and services to the pay-TV industry, as are many of the other press accounts that have piled on -- if not exaggerated -- the BBC’s inaccurate claims,” Chase Carey, News Corp.’s president, said in an e-mailed statement.

The allegations increase pressure on James Murdoch, the deputy chief operating officer of News Corp. and chairman of U.K. pay-TV company British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSY), as he seeks to move on from the phone-hacking scandal at News Corp.’s British tabloid unit. Murdoch, 39, was a non-executive director of NDS when the alleged smartcard hacking took place.

“If these allegations are true they mark a sinister new low in the hacking scandal,” said U.K. lawmaker Tom Watson, who’s on a parliamentary committee preparing a report about News Corp.’s handling of the phone-hacking probe. Britain’s media watchdog Ofcom “has a duty to investigate,” he said.

‘Fit and Proper’

Murdoch, the son of Chairman Rupert Murdoch, has already faced calls from investors to step down from News Corp.’s board and resign from his role at BSkyB, the U.K.’s biggest pay-TV company. The BBC said there’s no evidence he was aware of the NDS scheme.

Ofcom, the regulator, is currently evaluating whether James Murdoch is “fit and proper” to hold a broadcast license on behalf of BSkyB, in which News Corp. has a 39 percent stake. Ofcom said yesterday it will consider all relevant evidence. The phone-hacking scandal prompted News Corp. to close the News of the World tabloid in July and drop its 7.8 billion-pound ($12.4 billion) bid for full control of BSkyB.

“If the allegations are proven, then it makes a mockery of the regulations that protect viewers,” said Mark Lewis, a lawyer for victims of News Corp.’s phone hacking who testified before the parliamentary committee. The claims “stretch the definition of ’fit and proper,’” under U.K. law, he said.

‘Factual Inaccuracies’

News Corp.’s Australian unit, News Limited, said in a statement the Australian Financial Review’s report is “full of factual inaccuracies, flawed references, fanciful conclusions and baseless accusations which have been disproved in overseas courts.”

The piracy hurt News Corp.’s rivals in Australia and Britain, helping to ruin one of them, the news reports said. Both reports said NDS initially aimed to detect fraud and to fight piracy against News Corp.’s own pay-TV offerings, and only later began to promote and facilitated piracy.

The BBC “seriously misconstrued legitimate activities we undertake in the course of running an encryption business,” Abe Peled, the executive chairman of NDS, wrote in a letter to Panorama.

The documentary relied on “manipulated e-mail chains” and took e-mails out of context, Peled said in the letter provided by News Corp.

Australia’s Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said today that any allegations of criminal activity should be referred to the Australian Federal Police for investigation.

The allegations may complicate a proposed takeover of Austar United Communications Ltd. (AUN) by Foxtel, 25 percent-owned by News Corp. The deal, if approved by Australia’s competition regulator, would create the country’s largest pay-TV provider.

Pay-TV Competition

The BBC said NDS paid a hacker to crack the pay-TV technology of British rival ITV Digital and leak the codes online, contributing to the company’s collapse in 2002. At the time, ITV was threatening pay-TV revenue at BSkyB, BBC said.

“NDS has consistently denied any wrongdoing,” News Corp. spokeswoman Miranda Higham said March 26. A federal jury and appeals court that heard similar allegations “rejected” the claims, as did the U.S. Department of Justice, she said.

NDS, now co-owned by London hedge fund Permira Advisers LLP, is being sold to Cisco Systems Inc., (CSCO) the largest maker of equipment for computer networks, for $5 billion.

“Recent media allegations date back over 10 years and predate Cisco’s involvement with NDS,” Jim Brady, a spokesman for San Jose, California-based Cisco, said in a statement. “Given we remain separate companies, it would be inappropriate for Cisco to comment further.”

Lawsuit Resolved

Vivendi Universal SA’s Canal Plus unit sued NDS in the U.S. in 2002 over the same allegations and eventually resolved the lawsuit by selling an Italian business to News Corp.

U.S. satellite-TV broadcaster Dish Network Corp. accused NDS in court arguments in 2008 of hacking the security code of its access cards and causing at least $90 million in damages.

NDS, which provided encryption technology for Dish rival DirecTV Group Inc., was accused in that case of recruiting satellite-TV hackers and pirates to crack codes. A jury in California found that NDS wasn’t liable for a 2000 Internet post with information on how to hack Dish’s cards.

The internal e-mails cited by the Australian Financial Review are from a stolen hard-drive that was used as evidence in Echostar’s pay-TV piracy trial against News Corp. in a U.S. court, NDS spokeswoman Amy Lucas said yesterday in an e-mail.

EchoStar and Dish became separate companies in 2008 when EchoStar Communications Corp. changed its name to Dish Network Corp. (DISH), focusing on satellite TV, and spun off EchoStar Corp.

James Murdoch has given up several influential positions following the phone-hacking scandal where journalists intercepted the mobile-phone voice mails of politicians, celebrities and victims of crime to get scoops.

Murdoch Exits Sotheby’s

Auction house Sotheby’s said March 16 that Murdoch will leave its board. He resigned from the board of London-based drug maker GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) in January and stepped down as executive chairman of News Corp.’s U.K. unit, News International, last month.

News Corp. has said James Murdoch will focus on his main job as deputy chief operating officer to oversee the company’s international television operations.

The younger Murdoch’s future at BSkyB also hinges on a report that U.K. lawmakers are preparing on the phone-hacking scandal following testimony he gave the committee last year that was later contradicted by former subordinates.

Lawmakers began the inquiry in July after Murdoch said Parliament had been misled about the extent of phone hacking during a previous probe in 2009. It has questioned him twice for the new report, once alongside his father Rupert, News Corp.’s 81-year-old chief executive officer.

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Morning chrissie, so Dick Fordocio gets off scot free if he was guilty.??? How can the IPC "abandon " a charge? They either had enough evidence to make the charge or maybe Fordocio threatened to spill the beans on someone higher up.

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Morning chrissie, so Dick Fordocio gets off scot free if he was guilty.??? How can the IPC "abandon " a charge? They either had enough evidence to make the charge or maybe Fordocio threatened to spill the beans on someone higher up.

Hi Panda, yes I was surprised too that the charge was abandoned. Who knows what is going on in this corrupt saga

News Corp Said To Plan Sports Network To Rival ESPN -Bloomberg



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News Corp. (NWS) is planning a national U.S. sports television network to compete with Walt Disney Co.'s (DIS) ESPN, Bloomberg News reported Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the situation.

A spokesman for Fox Sports declined to comment on the Bloomberg story.

A final decision hasn't been made to move ahead with the plans, but the company is assembling the required rights from sports organizations and pay- television carriers, Bloomberg reported, citing sources. News Corp. is also considering turning its Fuel TV action-sports network into the new sports channel, according to the report.

News Corp. owns Dow Jones & Co., which publishes this newswire.

Murdoch's media empire strikes back

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/murdochs-media-empire-strikes-back-012338578.html

LONDON (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch on Thursday declared war against "enemies" who have accused his pay-TV operation of sabotaging its rivals, denouncing them as "toffs and right wingers" stuck in the last century.

Reports by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Financial Review newspaper this week said that News Corp's pay-TV smartcard security unit, NDS, had promoted piracy attacks on rivals, including in the United States.

NDS and News Corp had already denied the claims, but on Thursday the media empire mounted a fight back as a corruption scandal that has plagued its British newspapers began to encroach on its far more lucrative pay-TV business.

"Seems every competitor and enemy piling on with lies and libels. So bad, easy to hit back hard, which preparing," News Corp Chief Executive Murdoch, 81, tweeted.

News Corp, whose global media interests stretch from movies to newspapers that can make or break political careers, has endured an onslaught of negative press since a phone-hacking scandal at its News of the World tabloid blew up last year.

At its height last July, Murdoch told British parliamentarians: "This is the humblest day of my life," after meeting the family of a murdered schoolgirl whose phone News of the World journalists had hacked.

On Thursday, it appeared that Murdoch had had enough of apologising. "Enemies many different agendas, but worst old toffs and right wingers who still want last century's status quo with their monopolies," he tweeted.

For an avowed republican such as Murdoch, describing someone as an upper class "toff" is a damning insult - although he is now seen by many in Britain as part of the establishment.

The BBC has a long history of ideological clashes with BSkyB, which is 39 percent owned by News Corp, and both Rupert and his son James Murdoch have publicly attacked the British public service broadcaster over the years.

The Australian Financial Review is owned by Fairfax Media, the main rival to Murdoch's News Ltd newspaper group in Australia.

On Friday, an alleged target of the attacks, Australia's second-largest pay-TV provider, Austar United Communications, said there were no signs of any conspiracy.

Austar, about to be taken over by larger rival Foxtel which is part-owned by News Corp in a $2 billion deal, said there was a piracy issue over a decade ago across the whole industry.

"In Australia, we've had over 150 prosecutions subsequent to improvements in the copyright laws," Austar Chief Executive John Porter told Australian radio. "I've never once heard the name of NDS or News Corp in those investigations or prosecutions,"

Shareholders in Austar vote on Friday on the Foxtel takeover, which still needs regulatory approval.

In a letter sent to the Australian Financial Review by NDS on Thursday, the company's executive chairman, Abe Peled, accused the newspaper of mischaracterising NDS.

"You repeatedly mischaracterise communications about third party pirate devices to suggest that NDS was responsible for those devices," Peled wrote."You further mischaracterise NDS emails to suggest that NDS encouraged piracy of competitor systems while ignoring evidence that NDS was responsible for bringing to justice the sources of that piracy."

PASTYGATE

Richard Levick, a public-relations expert, expressed sympathy for Murdoch although he would have advised a more measured response.

"He's going to back to the old tools here, going on the attack, going for blustery headlines," he told Reuters. "I understand the natural inclination to do that and I have some personal sympathy with him."

Murdoch's British newspapers, relatively subdued since the phone-hacking scandal emerged, have gone back on the offensive.

The Sunday Times mounted a sting operation in which reporters posing as financiers were promised exclusive access to Prime Minister David Cameron in exchange for donations of 250,000 pounds ($400,000) a year.

That led to the resignation of a fundraiser from the ruling Conservative party, forced Cameron to disclose details of guests at his apartment, and sparked a discussion on party funding.

The Sun tabloid seized on an obscure tax the government planned to impose for the 2012 budget on hot pies, seen as a staple of a working-class diet, and offering readers a free pie.

A week later, Cameron, his finance minister and the opposition leader were still vying to be seen as the most avid pie-eater at every photo opportunity.

"INACCURATE CLAIMS"

The latest allegations bring the crisis closer to Murdoch's son James, who sits on the board of NDS, which News Corp and co-owner private equity firm Permira agreed to sell for $5 billion to Cisco this month.

The younger Murdoch, who is also chairman and ex-CEO of BSkyB, has been criticised for not uncovering the scale of phone-hacking at the News of the World, though he had not yet joined the newspaper operation when the hacking took place.

He has since moved to New York after being promoted within News Corp to deputy chief operating officer, and has severed all ties with the British newspapers. His focus is now the company's international pay-TV operations, where he made his career.

Chase Carey, News Corp's COO and James Murdoch's immediate boss, on Wednesday condemned the BBC documentary.

"The BBC's Panorama program was a gross misrepresentation of NDS's role as a high quality and leading provider of technology and services to the pay-TV industry, as are many of the other press accounts that have piled on - if not exaggerated - the BBC's inaccurate claims," he wrote.

NDS has complained that it was not asked for its side of the story before Monday's Panorama programme, which said NDS had leaked secret codes that allowed rampant pirating of BSkyB rival ITV Digital, which went bust in 2002.

On Thursday, NDS's Peled published a letter accusing Panorama of using manipulated emails to support its allegations.

The BBC said the emails shown in the programme "were not manipulated, as NDS claims, and nothing in the correspondence undermines the evidence presented in the programme".

Also this week, the Australian Financial Review published a story saying that NDS had allowed piracy to thrive at its client U.S. satellite broadcaster DirecTV, which Murdoch had ambitions to buy.

It reported, on the basis of a four-year investigation, that NDS ran a secret unit in the mid-1990s to sabotage competitors.

"We are not motivated in any way by any desire to damage any financial rival to the company that runs the Financial Review," the AFR's Editor-in-Chief, Michael Stutchbury, told Reuters.

"We are simply following the story and publishing what we have uncovered."

None of the evidence presented by Panorama and the AFR this week suggests that the Murdochs or any other News Corp executives were aware at the alleged practices at NDS.

NDS has won several court cases brought by rivals accusing it of promoting piracy, while others have been dropped - in one case because News Corp bought a subsidiary from the rival, Vivendi, which at the time was struggling with debt.

News Corp made $3.8 billion in revenues and $232 million in operating profit from satellite TV in its last fiscal year. It does not detail financial results for its newspapers but its British titles bring in less than 3 percent of group profit.

At its height last July, Murdoch told British parliamentarians: "This is the humblest day of my life," after meeting the family of a murdered schoolgirl whose phone News of the World journalists had hacked."


who is he trying to kid???? This is the Man who used the back entrance to visit Cameron Mitchell after he was elected PM, Tony Blair , also gained
by having Murdoch's Political backing and is so chummy with the family he is Godfather to one of Murdochs Grandchildren. I hope the U.S. is not as
spineless as GB and orders the break-up of the M

News Corp. Pay-TV Hack Claims Being Examined by U.K. Police

By Erik Larson - Mar 29, 2012 5:14 PM GMT+0100
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London police are considering whether to investigate claims that a digital-security unit of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (NWSA) in Britain engaged in piracy of smartcard technology to topple a pay-TV competitor.

The subsidiary, NDS, began hacking smartcard codes in the mid-1990s and leaked them online to give viewers free access to programs by competitor ITV Digital, which collapsed in 2002, BBC’s Panorama program reported March 26. The Australian Financial Review newspaper reported similar claims this week.





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“We’re aware of the allegations and considering whether the claims made are a matter for police,” the Metropolitan Police Service said today in an e-mailed statement. The department said it can’t speculate on when a decision will be made.

News Corp., based in New York, is already dealing with three parallel Met investigations of phone hacking, computer hacking and bribery of public officials by journalists at its British tabloids, including the now-shuttered News of the World. U.S. authorities are running similar probes of whether the overseas actions violated U.S. law.

The BBC program and the Financial Review both interviewed former hackers who claim they were located by News Corp. and hired to protect its pay-TV technology before being tasked with targeting competitors.

Phone-Hacking Scandal

NDS spokeswoman Amy Lucas declined to comment on the potential police investigation. The company, founded in Israel and based in Middlesex, England, denied the claims this week, as did News Corp.’s Australian unit, News Limited. The parent company is also planning a response to the reports, Chairman Rupert Murdoch wrote in a message on his Twitter Inc. account.

The allegations increase pressure on James Murdoch, the deputy chief operating officer of News Corp. and chairman of U.K. pay-TV company British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc (BSY), as he seeks to move past the phone-hacking scandal. The 39-year-old was a non-executive director of NDS when some of the alleged smartcard hacking took place.

The widening scandal could also affect BSkyB’s TV license in Britain. Ofcom, the country’s media regulator, is evaluating whether James Murdoch is “fit and proper” to hold a broadcast license on behalf of BSkyB, in which News Corp. has a 39 percent stake. Ofcom said yesterday it will consider all relevant evidence.

The phone-hacking scandal prompted News Corp. to close the News of the World in July and drop its 7.8 billion-pound ($12.4 billion) bid for full control of BSkyB. More than 30 people have been arrested in the probes, including journalists at News Corp.’s Sun tabloid and the former chief executive officer of its U.K. unit, Rebekah Brooks.

NDS, now co-owned by London hedge fund Permira Advisers LLP, is being sold to San Jose, California-based Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the largest maker of equipment for computer networks, for $5 billion.

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BSkyB Chairman James Murdoch 'To Step Down'
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The chairman of BSkyB, James Murdoch, is expected to step down from his position today, according to Sky sources.
Mr Murdoch is due to attend a board meeting this afternoon when he is expected to stand down from his position as chairman with immediate effect.

It is understood that he will remain a non-executive chair of the company, which owns Sky News.

Nicholas Ferguson, currently deputy chairman of BSkyB, is expected to take over from Mr Murdoch.

The BSkyB share price initially rose on the announcement, up to 680p per share from 676p. But it then quickly fell back to 675p.

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Hi chrissie,

I was at a neighbours and she had the T.V. on but no sound , there was James Murdoch, with Rebekah not far behind so I guessed there was News.

Rupert Murdoch will be the next to stand down, mark my words. I wouldn't be surprised if he is not ordered to break up his "Empire".

IT SAYS IN DAILY NEWS FORUM THAT JAMES MURDOCH HAS STEPPED DOWN FROM BSKYB.

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Wakey, wakey, Badboy, that's just what chrissie and I have been posting about in the last 2 posts. I'ts just been announced on T.V., the deputy Chairman is to take over. James has lost so many directorships lately, and now this, good job he's got loadsa money, he will find it hard to
get a Directorship now.

EDITOR MILES AND LEGAL EAGLE CRONE MENTIONED ON 6.30 NEWS

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I'm going to watch the 7 o'clock news on channel 4.

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PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE SPLIT ON WHETHER JAMES MURDOCH LIED TO THEM.

On Bloomberg News earlier it was said that James successor as Chairman was being groomed weeks ago to take over . James still has an interest in BskyB and a U.S. Company . BskyB is so successful that the share price has only slightly dropped. and the Murdochs own 40% of the Company.
apparently Cameron is not coming out of this too well, he is friends with Rebekah Wade, Rupert Murdoch and attended Parties etc with all the Family, and of course his monumental blunder in employing Coulson.