Richard Desmond News
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An Australian recall by China’s two biggest car exporters for potential cancer-producing asbestos parts may threaten plans by Chinese automakers to expand into the U.S. and Europe amid intensifying competition at home.
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Richard Desmond, chairman of the Northern & Shell Plc media group, sued a Credit Suisse Group AG unit for selling him a 50 million-pound ($78.5 million) derivative deal he said was inappropriately risky and impossible to understand.
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Bertelsmann AG’s RTL Group SA is in talks to sell its U.K. television station Channel 5 to Richard Desmond , owner of the Daily Express newspaper and Television X adult channel, a person with direct knowledge of the talks said.
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Bertelsmann AG ’s RTL Group SA agreed to sell its U.K. television station Channel 5 to Richard Desmond , owner of the Daily Express newspaper and Television X adult channel, for 125 million euros ($161 million) in cash.
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Richard Desmond , the owner of the Daily Express newspaper, told Sky News in an interview that while he would “never go against” News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch in his company’s bid to buy British Sky Broadcasting , the risk of so much media control resting in the hands of Murdoch’s successor could create a “very dangerous situation” if the person were a “despot.”
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Richard Desmond , owner of the Daily Express and Daily Star newspapers, asked Goldman Sachs Group Inc to review his newspapers’ assets, the Sunday Times of London said, without saying where it got the information. There is no formal mandate for a sale at this stage, according to the report.
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Time Warner Inc. is in talks with Richard Desmond , owner of the U.K.’s Daily Express newspaper, to acquire the American edition of OK! magazine, the Sunday Times reported, without saying where it got the information.
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Richard Desmond , the owner of the Daily Express newspaper, may agree to buy RTL Group SA’s U.K. television station Five within days, the Sunday Times reported, without saying where it got the information.
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U.K. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will say today he’ll end remaining curbs on ownership of regional media to encourage the setting-up of local television stations that may be sponsored by large companies.
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News Corp.’s Sun, the best-selling U.K. newspaper, said multiple police and government inquiries into the press are hurting free speech and constitute a “witch hunt,” following the arrest of five of its employees.
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