Charles Storch

During a meeting last week with securities analysts, Tribune Co.`s broadcasting chief, James C. Dowdle, was asked about the high prices being paid for television stations, prices often expressed as...

Unable to cover its payroll checks, the United Press International news service was prepared Friday to seek protection from creditors in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. At a meeting in Los Angeles,...

A veteran of the mergers and acquisition game cast a practiced eye on Ted Turner`s proposed $5.4 billion offer for CBS Inc. and offered this assessment: ''If it didn`t involve...

Broadcasting magnate Ted Turner, who for years has made no secret of his desire to own a television network, made public Thursday his plans to acquire CBS Inc. Turner Broadcasting...

CBS Inc. was to hold its annual shareholder meeting in Chicago Wednesday afternoon, and broadcasting magnate Ted Turner was not expected to be there in person. But Turner`s spirit was...

''It is the purpose of the 1st Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of that market.'' --Supreme...

The market for media properties continued to sizzle, as a management-investor group offered Friday to acquire Multimedia Inc. in a leveraged buyout with a market value estimated at $500 million....