News Corporation&#39;s Profit Rises on Strong Cable Ad Sales
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The News Corporation, the media company controlled by Rupert Murdoch, said yesterday that its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 27 percent, in part because advertising sales increased at its cable networks, like the Fox News Channel.
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Walt Disney Co. quarterly profit rose 24 percent on Thursday as stronger cable television results and a tax benefit more than made up for a sharp slowdown at Disney&#39;s movie studio.
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Time Warner Inc. TWX.N, the world's  largest media company, on Friday said its quarterly net profit  rose by 76 percent, boosted by digital video, high-speed  Internet and higher advertising sales at its cable networks.
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Profits at Time Warner, the world's biggest media group, are boosted 76% by ad revenues and high-speed internet sales.
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News Corp. (NWSa.N) on Tuesday  said its quarterly net profit rose 19 percent boosted by  advertising sales at the Fox News Channel, "Ice Age: The  Meltdown" film ticket sales and a gain from the sale of radio  stations.
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Gannett Co. Inc.  posted a better-than-expected 3 percent rise in quarterly profit on Friday, boosted by higher advertising demand at its newspapers and a rise in political ad sales at its TV stations.
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News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch&#39;s pay rose 42 percent to $17 million as television shows such as ``American Idol&#39;&#39; and viewer gains at the FX cable network lifted profit in fiscal 2004.
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Time Warner Inc. TWX.N on Friday  posted a higher quarterly net profit boosted by more digital  video and cable high speed Internet customers and higher  advertising sales at the cable networks.
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Media conglomerate News Corp. (NWSa.N)  said on Wednesday its quarterly sales rose helped by higher  "Borat" box office sales and "X-Men" DVDs, but profit fell due  to one-time gain a year earlier.
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Australian media empire Publishing &amp; Broadcasting Ltd. reported Thursday a 75 percent jump in earnings for the fiscal year ending June 30, thanks to a strong economy and a rebound in advertising revenue.
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LOS ANGELES: Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp has posted a 28 per cent rise in quarterly profit as strong results in newspapers, broadcast and cable television countered weaker performances in its film and Italian pay-TV divisions.
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News Corp. said on Wednesday that quarterly revenue rose 18 percent, helped by "Borat" movie ticket sales and "X-Men" DVDs, and it issued a very optimistic profit outlook for its Internet division next year.
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Washington Post Co. WPO.N said on  Friday that quarterly profit jumped, beating analysts'  forecasts, boosted by results at its Kaplan education unit and  television broadcasting operations.
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Washington Post Co. WPO.N said on  Friday that quarterly profit jumped, boosted by results at its  Kaplan education unit and television broadcasting operations.
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Media conglomerate Time Warner Inc.  said on Wednesday that fourth-quarter profit rose more than 30 percent, boosted by asset sales, more digital cable and phone customers, and a rise in AOL advertising sales.
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Time Warner Inc., the world&#39;s largest media company, probably will report a 26 percent increase in third- quarter net income, helped by a rebound in Web-advertising sales at its America Online unit.
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Washington Post Co. (WPO.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Friday that quarterly profit jumped, boosted by results at its Kaplan education unit and television broadcasting operations.