1.   Analysts said investor interest in Canadian broadcasting stocks was stimulated by high-profile media mergers in the U.S.

2.   A sale will allow Edgar Bronfman Jr., who is expected to become vice chairman of the combined company, to follow the trend of media mergers.

3.   But if one presumes that media mergers are the wave of the future, then it must be considered a risk.

4.   But not every old-media executive saw new media mergers as manifest destiny.

5.   But there remains a gnawing anxiety about the societal impact of these huge media mergers.

6.   But there are serious problems involved in getting any media mergers between new and old off the drawing boards.

7.   For a decade, ambitious titans assured us that media mergers were the wave of the future.

8.   Hirsh said he thinks much of the impetus for the media mergers is driven by technology.

9.   Indeed, the spate of recent media mergers has flowed in part from a welcome change in federal rules.

10.   It would also relax many ownership restrictions on television and radio stations and is almost certain to touch off a new wave of giant media mergers and alliances.