1.   BET.com also plans to offer more than content from its media holdings and online shopping.

2.   A few other tycoons have media holdings.

3.   Dolan understands the value of sports team ownership, but he views owning a team as something that can benefit his media holdings.

4.   GE and other companies with media holdings say that they try to report on themselves fairly and accurately, and they often succeed.

5.   Gusinsky is fighting extradition from Spain on fraud charges that he says are part of a Kremlin campaign against his media holdings.

6.   He said at a news conference a month ago that his media holdings would work to promote liberal economic reforms and to restrain the Communist Party.

7.   He has refused to divest himself of his media holdings.

8.   His victory nonetheless stunned the outside world, where the idea that a Ted Turner or Rupert Murdoch could become prime minister while retaining his media holdings is unthinkable.

9.   Like any player with serious ambitions to wield power in Russia, Berezovsky has sizeable media holdings, which he brazenly uses to his ends.

10.   Potanin said his media holdings, including the prestigious daily newspaper Izvestia, once the official organ of the Soviet state, are in dire straits.