31.   Minority ownership of media properties has long been an issue among civil rights groups.

32.   Murdoch loves to ski and sail, and accumulate media properties like The New York Post, sometimes for profit, sometimes for political power.

33.   Not so, says Gazprom, a mammoth state-owned company that swooped in to take control of the media properties.

34.   Prices for media properties are high now and a lot of consolidation is going on, Franklin added.

35.   The administration is particularly concerned that the bills would encourage a concentration of media properties in too few hands.

36.   The buy-and-build approach that Hicks, Muse brings to its media properties was honed in humdrum industries like electrical components and branded foods.

37.   The commission did grant Disney seven other waivers for separate combinations of media properties in single markets.

38.   The company said earnings from its media properties had been hurt by a fierce battle for circulation among newspapers in Toronto.

39.   The Federal Communications Commission has used the law to encourage more minority ownership of media properties by effectively reducing the purchase price of those properties.

40.   The financier also had investments in media properties in the United States and Australia and recently acquired a small stake in San Francisco Magazine.