The conference launched the same year as a new 24-hour sports network, ESPN, which bought the media rights to Big East games and made them an early staple of its programming.
You can see that some of this appears to include being bought lunch by media organisations (including the BBC).
While Berezovsky made a good portion of his money from luxury car sales, his wealth and political influence skyrocketed when he bought into Russian media.
Bova also edited a now-defunct Maxim spinoff title, Stuff, which shut down in 2007 after Alpha Media bought Maxim and Blender from founder Felix Dennis.
But a year later Sandow Media bought the group, and Gen Art put on a terrific show Wednesday night for New York Fashion Week, featuring the Fall 2012 collections of Gemma Kahng, Samantha Pleet and William Okpo.
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For example, nine of the 20 football clubs in the English Premier League last season were owned by foreigners. (The final count was eight: no amount of American cash could have saved Derby County from relegation.) One or two may be rich men's playthings, but most have been bought for the media rights, ticket sales and merchandising.
He points out Buffett not only bought 63 papers from Media General, he also extended them a loan.
Sony hopes that Telemundo, the failing channel for America's Latino population that it bought last year with Liberty Media, will increasingly draw on, and be drawn on by, the Latin American channels.
Billionaire Kumar Birla recently bought a stake in the Living Media Group that publishes newsweekly India Today and owns TV channel Headlines Today.
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After AOL Inc. bought the Huffington Post, the media site's co-founder, Kenneth Lerer, left to focus on his new seed investment firm, Lerer Ventures.
Mr Bezos made clear that the devices' success would depend on how many books and other media files were subsequently bought by their owners.
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On Friday though, Murdoch put a serious dent in Branson's media plans when BSkyB bought an almost 18 percent stake in ITV, which has been badly hit by a falling audience share and a decline in TV advertising revenues.
They have bought into the ethos of the new media ecology full hog.
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Media magnate Kalanithi Maran who bought budget carrier SpiceJet from Wilbur Ross Jr and others, could be a front-runner in potential deals.
When Buffett announced yesterday he had bought a collection of 63 newspapers from Media General, I wondered how many empty desks exist in those newsrooms.
Before Blockbuster was bought by Dish Network, there were media reports of ambitious expansion plans, including selling electrical goods such as televisions, mobile phones, and iPods.
The impact of social media on how tech products are bought and sold is nascent, but growing.
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Butler bought 80% of Virgin in 2007 from French media company Lagardere, which had purchased the chain from Mr Branson's Virgin in 2001.
MySpace.com, a social-networking and blogging service that last year was bought by News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate, reflects this quality in its name.
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With no media experience, Salinas and two partners bought a moneylosing network from the government in 1993 and turned it into a vibrant new voice that attracts 24% of the prime-time audience, thanks to lively programming and newscasts with many political views.
About 3.11 million Indians bought tablets in 2012, according to the technology research unit of Cyber Media (India) Ltd.
PalmSource was acquired by Access Systems, and renamed itself ACCESS. Private equity firm Elevation Partners bought a stake in Palm Inc (they also own a share of Forbes Media) and then eventually Palm was sold in its entirety to Hewlett-Packard.
Sam Zell wound up being the winner when he bought the paper as part of a wider acquisition of the U.S. media company Tribune.
Simmons New Media Study reports that social gamers are 27 percent more likely to have either bought their first home in the last year or are planning to buy their first home in the next year.
The complaint also alleges that in addition to covering up the fraud scheme, CAIR forced angry clients who were demanding a return of their legal fees to sign a release that bought the client-victims' silence by prohibiting them from informing law enforcement or the media about the fraud.
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