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News Corp turns its gaze towards Russia
Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Tuesday August 2, 2005
The Guardian
News Corporation is holding negotiations to acquire a stake in Ren TV, the only remaining major television channel in Russia that is not under state control.
Spokeswomen for both News Corp and Severstal Group, which owns an estimated 69.9% stake in the channel, confirmed that a meeting had been held yesterday to discuss a possible deal but declined to say how big a stake was being sought or how much was being offered for it.
If the deal went ahead, it would mark a rare venture for western business into the difficult waters of the Russian broadcast media, a sector considered of "strategic importance" by the Kremlin and hence controlled by companies loyal to the state.
The Interfax news agency quoted a source close to the talks yesterday saying that News Corp's executive vice-president, Marty Pompadur, had told them that News Corp would be glad to work alongside RTL, the German TV firm that negotiated a 30% stake in the channel last month.
Severstal Group, which mostly owns shares in steel production, paid the Russian electricity monopoly UES $100m (£56.4m) for its 69% stake in Ren TV in early July. UES had paid $30m for the stake in 2000 but had apparently been under pressure to sell. The group is run by a leading libertarian and former Kremlin economic guru, Anatoli Chubais.
The size of the stake that the Murdoch empire could acquire is restricted by a law that says no foreign or Russian entity that has foreign shareholders can own more than 50% of a TV channel. Ren TV was founded in 1997 and has a potential audience of 97 million. It is the only channel with regular news programming that has not been brought under state control.
Andrei Richter, a media expert, said he thought News Corp would probably find a legal loophole if it wanted to buy the whole 70% share.
"It is not good for the Russian audience, however, as it will lose a local emblem." He said a transnational owner would result in more homogeneous news content. "Murdoch never makes enemies of the local government," he said.
News Corp owns a street-advertising business in Russia and the popular radio station Nashe Radio. It was believed to be interested in the huge NTV channel three years ago, which eventually fell into the hands of the gas giant Gazprom.
作者：猪八戒 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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