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Thorn in bid spotlight after chairman refuses CBI role

Friday 20 October 1995

MAGNUS GRIMOND

Turner deal hits fresh snags

Friday 29 September 1995

MATHEW HORSMAN

Turner marriage ambushed at altar

Sunday 24 September 1995

HAILED as a masterstroke by analysts on Wall Street when it was formally unveiled on Friday after weeks of negotiation, the merger between Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System is already running into unexpected opposition.

Turner welcomes $7.5bn Time Warner embrace

Saturday 23 September 1995

DAVID USBORNE

Time-Turner talks

Tuesday 19 September 1995

Time-Turner talks

Time Warner bid stalls

Monday 11 September 1995

Time Warner bid stalls

Eyes on TV deal maker

Monday 04 September 1995

EDWARD HELMORE

Today, the living room. Tomorrow, the world

Monday 04 September 1995

Wide-screen TV hogged the view when telly addicts checked the latest turn-ons. Steve Homer reports

Two's company

Sunday 03 September 1995

They're back - and this time they're sober. Mega-mergers in the 1990s are based on need not greed

Submission of a suitor

Sunday 03 September 1995

TED TURNER is best known in the UK for two things: owning cable news channel CNN, and marrying Jane Fonda. Mr Turner has done a fair bit of wooing in his private life - Ms Fonda is his third wife - but even more in his business life. He has been trying to buy a television network in the US for 10 years but has always been frustrated. On Thursday, he appeared to have finally given up, when Time Warner proposed to take control his company, Turner Broadcasting System, for $10bn (pounds 6.4bn) - but only after years of frantic and convoluted wooing with almost everybody who counts in the media business.

Broadcasting giants agree `tentative' merger deal

Saturday 02 September 1995

MATHEW HORSMAN

Huge is best in the media ocean

Thursday 31 August 1995

In the soap opera that is the US communications industry, the scriptwriters have a startling twist. Will Time Warner buy Turner? David Usborne reports

Media giants plan $8bn marriage

Thursday 31 August 1995

DAVID USBORNE

Media giants discuss $8bn sale

Thursday 31 August 1995

Time Warner negotiations with Ted Turner in US 'move on more quickly than expected'
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