Cut Throat: High Stakes & Killer Moves on the Electronic Frontier
A lively, fast-paced, unauthorized account of power brokers and sky-high deals, Cutthroat is the one book you must read to understand the players, the tactics, and the future in the brutal telecommunications market battle between satellite TV and cable. In 1997, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. joined forces with EchoStar, Charlie Ergen's upstart company, to create a satellite-TV powerhouse--nicknamed Deathstar. The cable industry knew its lucrative monopoly was threatened, and with TCI's John...
Search in google:
A lively, fast-paced, unauthorized account of power brokers and sky-high deals, Cutthroat is the one book you must read to understand the players, the tactics, and the future in the brutal telecommunications market battle between satellite TV and cable. In 1997, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. joined forces with EchoStar, Charlie Ergen's upstart company, to create a satellite-TV powerhouse--nicknamed Deathstar. The cable industry knew its lucrative monopoly was threatened, and with TCI's John Malone in the forefront, cable fought back and held off the assault. How this deal lit up the sky before crashing down to earth exposes the outsized personalities, the high-stakes deal-making, the shifting alliances, and the ruthless politicking that surround the pursuit of megabucks in telecommunications today.
Prologue: The Gameix1.The Cable Gang Mourns12.Deathstar133.Stealing Free TV354.The Chess Machine595.Cutting Cable816.The Rat Zapper1077.500 Channels1218.Fighting for Air1399.Elvis Is in the Building16110.Angry Eyeballs17311.Calling Dr. Kevorkian19712.Summer of Love21513.Endgame239Epilogue: Survival of the Leveraged267Notes277Acknowledgments305Index307
