Tag: Peter Chernin

Was Levinsohn Fired For Raising His Own Fund?

Tags: Ross Levinsohn + MySpace + Tony Perkins + Peter Chernin + Fox Interactive + News Corp

Motu
Posted by Motu 1 year 7 months ago; via valleywag.com/tech/the-re...

According to Red Herring's Tony Perkins: “He got raising money for another deal. So the chief operating officer Peter Chernin, who works for Rupert as his right hand man—when his kids aren’t running the place, called Ross into his office and said, ‘Is this true, that you’re raising this half a billion dollar roll-up fund?...And he [Chernin] goes, ‘Are you either in or your out?’ And he [Levinsohn] said, ‘Well, I guess I’m out.”

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According to ValleyWag's Nick Denton: Ross Levinsohn's one great achievement at Fox...

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News Corp. May Launch YouTube Rival

Tags: News Corp. + MySpace + Peter Chernin + YouTube

Kevom
Posted by Kevom 1 year 10 months ago; via multichannel.com/article/...

News Corp. chief operating officer Peter Chernin told investors at an industry conference Tuesday that the media giant was considering creating a video component to its MySpace social networking Web site that could rival the wildly popular YouTube.

At the Merrill Lynch Media & Entertainment Conference in Pasadena, Calif., Tuesday, Chernin said that because most of YouTube’s traffic starts at MySpace, it may be time for the No. 1 social networking site to cut out the middle man.

“If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application,...

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