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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9784

18 November 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 31 / 33
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) media

According to analysts, the world financial crisis is beginning to have an impact on the US media giants also. Thus, News Corp has announced a fall of 30% in its profits for the first quarter 2008 and foresees a decline for the whole of 2008 up to 10-15%, due to the fall in advertisement spending. Disney, which only depends on advertising for 20% of its income, is also in danger with a fall in profits of 13% in the last quarter. It plans to step up promotional offers to support demand. Viacom...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
SUPPLEMENT