[icernet] Murdoch gains foothold in India

[Arul Selvan]

  The media baron Rupert Murdoch has finally secured his own foothold in 
the business of news and current affairs in India with the launch of the 
new-look `Star News' midnight on Sunday night. Though television news in 
the country is poised for yet another battle — a crowded one at that 
with a good half-a-dozen news channels set to enter an arena already 
occupied by 47 news channels — India has joined the league of nations 
where media-related laws have been rewritten by the seemingly 
``unstoppable'' News Corporation of Mr. Murdoch. The new channels apart, 
India has 47 networks dealing in news — 16 of them 24-hour.

Source:
http://hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2003/04/01/stories/2003040102211200.htm