News Corp profit up on "Simpsons" movie
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News Corp  reported on Wednesday a 23 percent rise in quarterly operating profit, helped by strong box-office sales for "The Simpsons," but said it could face a "rough" economic climate next year.
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A strong performance by Walt Disney's TV channels offsets weaker movie revenues, pushing fourth-quarter profits up by a quarter.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corporation, basking in the glow of its successful shift to the United States, has unveiled a 27 per cent rise in first quarter profit and declared it is on the cusp of a new and more profitable era.
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News Corp. said quarterly earnings were up 1 percent from a year earlier as results from the Fox broadcast network and news channel outweighed lighter returns from movies and TV production.
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The New York Times Co  reported a 6.7 percent rise in profit on Tuesday because of higher national advertising sales and a price increase for its flagship newspaper, sending its shares up as much as 8 percent.
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Viacom Inc. on Thursday said its quarterly profit from continuing operations rose 12 percent on higher cable network advertising sales and announced a larger-than-expected stock repurchase, sending its shares up 3 percent.
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NEW YORK - Earnings at News Corp., the media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch, rose 27 percent in the latest quarter on stronger results from broadcast television, cable networks and newspapers, the company reported Wednesday.
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Loews Corp. , the conglomerate run by the Tisch family, reported a nearly six-fold increase in fourth-quarter profit on Monday, helped by gains at its insurance and oil drilling units.
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News Corp. saw healthy gains in profit and revenue in the fiscal first quarter - helped by growth in advertising at the Fox News Channel and the Fox broadcast network, as
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Pixar Animation Studios Inc on  Thursday reported that its third-quarter profit rose, driven by  foreign video sales of last year's hit "Finding Nemo."
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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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LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney (DIS) quarterly profit rose 24% as cable TV results and a tax benefit more than offset a drought at its movie studio.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp nudged up  its full-year outlook on Monday and said it has not seen any  weakness in the television advertising market, after posting a  moderate rise in quarterly profit.
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Viacom Inc.  said on Thursday its fourth quarter profit rose helped by the purchase of Dreamworks compared with a year ago when profit was dragged by charges.
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Shark Tale, the animated underwater comedy, continued to rule theaters this weekend, bringing in $31.7 million, according to box office tracking firm Nielsen EDI.
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NEW YORK  - Washington Post Co.  said on Friday that quarterly profit jumped, boosted by results at its Kaplan education unit and television broadcasting operations.
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Loews Corp. , the conglomerate run by the Tisch family, reported a nearly six-fold increase in fourth-quarter profit on Monday, helped by improved results at its insurance and drilling units.