Rupert Murdoch /”Moguls a Comeback ” Premiere_tv in Germany
Rupert Murdoch buys and buys. According to the Wall Street Journal, he makes an acquisition in Germany. The American media ruler is a high tier on German television - for Premiere repeatedly [Kirch -Helmut Kohl bankruptcy ]!
he man, whom she Medienmogul the most powerful in the world, is back in Germany. Rupert Murdoch buys about his News Corp. group. For 287 million euros in the Munich pay-TV company Premiere. There he is, with a share of almost 15 percent is now the largest shareholder.
Soon he expected his TV ownership expand - and new deals. “Pay TV is one of the core activities of News Corporation, said he personally on Monday:” We still see great potential in the German pay-TV market, and are convinced that the time for a stake in the leading German provider Premiere now ideal. “
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For many years, the media world rulers Murdoch to a place in Germany sharply. He had an eye on the publisher Axel Springer thrown, gave approximately one year, together with the publisher Hubert Burda line out at the stations rose Vox and tm3, and finally goal with the dealer Leo Kirch Media - admittedly made bankrupt.
This experience wracked Mister Murdoch long time the desire for Germany. As a shareholder of the holding company KirchMedia and as a shareholder of Premiere - he too was once been - he had lost a lot of money.
Murdoch’s opinion about Kirch’s main manager Dieter Hahn, currently on a comeback works and the Football League wants to market is obviously a deep scepticism. Observers believe it therefore possible that Murdoch’s people directly to the German Football League (DFL) offer for the TV rights could make. And that other media companies - such as Constantin Film - would buy.
The returners in Australia, Britain, Italy and the United States is a power in the media business. Only a few months ago he bought the Wall Street Journal. His appetite is hard to breastfeed - and certainly pays off Murdoch now, in the German television to size.
At its premiere in Munich he got in December 2007 that the French pay-TV Canal Plus specialist runners wanted. That suited to the native Australians with the American passport not at all. And so he bought then kurzentschlossen premiere 16.4 million shares of cable operator Unity Media. The financial investors controlled company originally wanted even with the Bundesliga TV big arena, but took following losses from future storms distance runs.
Premiere shares were before Murdoch’s statement of suspended trading, after the price jumped by 26 percent.
