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- <title>
- Feb. 25, 1991: Business Notes:Media
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Feb. 25, 1991 Beginning Of The End
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 67
- Business Notes
- MEDIA
- Financial News Debt Work
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- <p> America's most watched business-news channel nearly had to
- report its own demise. Owing $142 million and losing money,
- Financial News Network Inc. was headed for oblivion until, last
- week, it finally accomplished what it had been trying for five
- months: it sold important assets and raised cash. Dow Jones and
- Westinghouse Broadcasting jointly bought the flagship FNN cable
- news channel plus the company's weekend sports service, its
- syndicated program This Morning's Business and a radio news
- service for about $90 million.
- </p>
- <p> Westinghouse Broadcasting will manage the properties while
- Dow Jones will have editorial control, which should lead to
- improvements in both areas. The Discovery Channel, another
- cable-TV venture, agreed to buy FNN Inc.'s interest in the
- Learning Channel for $12.75 million. FNN also plans to sell its
- 49% interest in Shark Information Services. Trouble is, that's
- all the assets. Acknowledging that it is still deeply in the
- hole, the company said it will soon file for bankruptcy
- protection.
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