Tag: Rupert Murdoch

• Tuesday, April 12th 2016 - 22:38 UTC

  Bundesliga matches live television rights can't have a single buyer, rules Germany's anti-trust office

  

  Germany’s federal anti-trust office has approved plans to stop any single buyer from winning all the live television rights for Bundesliga soccer matches for the four seasons starting in 2017.

• Thursday, March 10th 2016 - 05:26 UTC

  Murdoch and The Sun gets the Queen involved in the Brexit debate

  

  Buckingham Palace said it had launched an official complaint with Britain's press watchdog on Wednesday over a newspaper report that Queen Elizabeth backs a British exit from the European Union, saying the monarch remains politically neutral.

• Monday, February 22nd 2016 - 07:57 UTC

  UK campaign for the EU in/out referendum takes off; London mayor Johnson challenges PM Cameron

  

  British Prime Minister David Cameron will face MPs later as he presents his case for the UK remaining within a reformed European Union. The PM will outline details of last week's deal with EU leaders, which paved the way for him to call a referendum on EU membership on 23 June.

• Friday, September 11th 2015 - 10:24 UTC

  Murdoch's Fox takes control of National Geographic Society for US$ 725m

  

  The National Geographic Society sold its iconic yellow-bordered magazine and other media assets to Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox for $725 million, the companies announced Wednesday. National Geographic Society, which found the magazine in 1888, has chosen to sell the publication amid slumping circulation and advertising sales.

• Tuesday, August 19th 2014 - 08:31 UTC

  Assange announces he plans to abandon the Ecuadorean embassy 'soon'

  

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent over two years inside Ecuador's London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden, said on Monday he planned to leave the building “soon”, but his spokesman said that could only happen if Britain let him.

• Thursday, October 31st 2013 - 20:09 UTC

  UK new regulating system for the press triggers bitter controversy

  

  Britain approved a new system of regulating its press, a move newspapers said was draconian and threatened freedom of speech but which former victims of press excess described as long overdue.

• Tuesday, January 8th 2013 - 00:07 UTC

  Argentina charters private UK plane for Cristina Fernandez next tour to avoid legal surprises

  

  The Argentine government issued a statement in response to a recent piece published on the British tabloid “The Sun”, and assured that President Cristina Fernández will fly in a private plane on her next tour to avoid a potential impounding of the official presidential plane by vulture funds.

• Friday, November 30th 2012 - 20:24 UTC

  Law to regulate UK press: PM Cameron against; Clegg and Miliband in favour

  

  Prime Minister David Cameron rejected the idea of a law to regulate the British press risking a split in his government after an inquiry advised legal backing for a watchdog to police the sometimes outrageous conduct of newspapers

• Thursday, February 23rd 2012 - 04:30 UTC

  Wife of former PM Blair began legal action over hacking of her private phone

  

  The wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has begun legal action over the alleged interception of her private phone messages, her lawyer said on Wednesday, making her the latest public figure to be drawn into a hacking scandal that has shaken the country's media.

• Monday, December 12th 2011 - 05:00 UTC

  Murdoch’s News of the World had over 800 phones hacked, says Police

  

  More than 800 people have had their telephones illegally hacked by the now-defunct News of the World tabloid, British police investigating the alleged practice said on Saturday.