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جام جم آنلاين: كارل آيكان ، ميلياردر آمريكايي و يكي از سرمايه داران اصلي تايم وارنر ، غول رسانه اي آمريكا پيشنهاد كرده است اين شركت عظيم به منظور بالا بردن ارزش سهام خود به چهار شركت كوچكتر تبديل شود.
تايم وانر ، در سال 2001 با شركت آمريكا آنلاين ( AOL ) ادغام شد و بزرگترين شركت رسانه اي جهان را پديد آورد.

اگرچه در همان زمان بسياري از ناظران و كارشناسان اقتصادي و رسانه اي اين ادغام را ناموفق ارزيابي كردند اما هم اكنون براي همگان مشخص شده است كه بزرگي و گستردگي بيش از حد اين شركت رسانه اي ضربات سنگيني را به منافع سرمايه گذاران آن وارد كرده است.

کارتون

تد ترنر بنيانگذار شبكه خبري سي ان ان ، و يكي از بزرگترين سهامداران شركت تايم وارنر در پي اين ادغام بزرگ شبكه محبوب خود را از دست داد و آن را دو دستي به راست گرايان و طرفداران جمهوريخواهان كه در شركت تازه تاسيس نفوذ بيشتري يافته بودند تقديم كرد.
نارضايتي او از اين ادغام سرانجام به خروج او از هيئت مديره تايم وارنر و سپس واگذاري عمده سهامش به قيمتي ناچيز به ديگران تمام شد.
اين ترس هم اكنون در ميان ساير سهام داران بزرگ تايم وارنر پديد آمده است كه اگر فكري براي افزايش ارزش سهام آن نشود همگي دير يا زود متضرر خواهند شد.
در اين ميان كارل ايكان ميلياردر آمريكايي كه 3/3 از كل سهام تايم وارنر را در اختيار دارد به تازگي با انتقاد از ريچارد پارسون مدير عامل اين شركت اعلام كرده است تنها در صورت تجزيه اين شركت به چهار شركت كوچكتر است كه منافع سهامداران تامين خواهد شد.
وي معتقد است در صورت عملي شدن پيشنهاد او و تبديل شركت تايم وارنر به چهار شركت كوچكتر ارزش سهام آن به 45 تا 60 ميليارد دلار افزايش خواهد يافت.
در طرح ايكان بزرگترين شركت رسانه اي جهان بايد به چهار شركت ” آمريكا آنلاين (AOL)“ ، ” شركت كابلي تايم وارنر“ ، ” بخش انتشارات “ و ” شبكه هاي تلويزيوني و فيلم “ تبديل شود.
آيكان و جمع زيادي از سهامداران ديگر شركت تايم وارنر با تهيه مستنداتي كه 342 صفحه شده است مدعي شده اند هيچ لزومي بر ادامه روند فعاليت يكپارچه تايم وارنر نيست و هر يك از اين چهار شركت مي توانند به خوبي منافع سهامداران خود را تامين كنند و رقابتي بهتر از گذشته با يكديگر داشته باشند.
تايم وارنر هم اكنون در حيطه هاي مختلفي چون اينترنت ، ارائه خدمات كابلي ، شبكه هاي تلويزيوني نظير سي ان ان ، HBO و شبكه فيلم هاي كلاسيك ترنر و نيز در بخش انتشار كتاب ، مجله ، توليد فيلم و موسيقي فعال است.
تايم وارنر صاحب يكي از بزرگترين استوديوهاي فيلم سازي جهان ، يعني استوديوي فيلم سازي برادران وارنر است و نيز ناشر يكي از پرتيراژترين مجلات جهان يعني ، هفته نامه تايم است.
آيكان به نمايندگي از سهامداران تايم وارنر ، يك تيم حرفه اي از بانكداران و متخصصان اقتصادي و رسانه اي را براي تهيه اين مستندات 342 صفحه اي و براي اثبات اينكه جدايي اين چهار شركت به نفع همه سهامداران است به خدمت گرفته است.
با اين حال ريچارد پارسون مدير عامل سياه پوست تايم وارنر كه از ماه مه سال 2002 تا كنون در اين سمت بوده است از مخالفان جدي ايكان است. او با استناد و تكيه بر رشد 21 درصدي درآمد اين شركت در چهار ماهه پايان سال 2005 مي كوشد تا ايكان را شكست دهد.

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Icahn Proposes That Time Warner Break Up

NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2006

(AP)

(AP) Carl Icahn called for Time Warner Inc. to split into four separate companies, citing a report he commissioned that accused the media conglomerate of mismanaging for the short term.

Icahn recruited the investment bank Lazard Ltd. to study options for the company, and appeared alongside Lazard chief Bruce Wasserstein to present the proposals to financial analysts and reporters at a news conference in New York Tuesday.

The proposals were largely in line with Icahn's previous demands for the company, and included a $20 billion share buyback as well as criticisms of Time Warner's current management.

The Lazard report also called for Time Warner to be broken up into four companies: AOL, Time Warner Cable, publishing, and entertainment. Just a day earlier, Time Warner said it would sell its book publishing division to the French media and defense conglomerate Lagardere SCA for $537.5 million.

"Our view is that Time Warner has been managed for the short term," said Bruce Wasserstein, the head of Lazard. "Since 2002, almost every strategic decision concerning AOL has been wrong."

Wasserstein said AOL should have capitalized on its large position in instant messaging to build a big business in Internet-based telephone services. He also said it waited too long to offer a bundled service with corporate sibling Time Warner Cable and didn't capitalize on the surge in Internet advertising.

However, it remains unclear whether the proposals will win over other investors. Icahn has allied himself with some other Time Warner shareholders, but collectively they control only about 3.3 percent of the company's stock.

Time Warner's deal in 2000 to be acquired by AOL led to enormous problems, including a plummeting share price, a management purge, failure to deliver on promises of corporate synergy and accounting improprieties at AOL. The combined company used to be called AOL Time Warner Inc.

Time Warner has since shed debt, settled shareholder lawsuits and regulatory investigations and revamped AOL's business strategy to attract more advertising.

Despite those efforts, however, Time Warner' stock has remained in a rut, something that Time Warner Chief Executive Dick Parsons and Icahn agree on. The stock is still roughly at the same level it was in the spring of 2002.

Time Warner promised to evaluate the proposals in Lazard's report. In the meantime, the company said: "We are on the right path. The company is delivering."

Icahn has also recruited Frank Biondi, a former head of Time Warner unit HBO and Viacom Inc., to serve as chief executive of Time Warner if Icahn's drive to install a new slate of directors succeeds, which is far from certain.

In a somewhat puzzling twist, Biondi told the news conference that he hoped Jeff Bewkes, who is currently Parson's No. 2 executive, would stay on board. Icahn has been very critical of Time Warner's current management, which would presumably include Bewkes.

Chris Young, a director at Institutional Shareholder Services, a proxy advisory firm, said the presentation "advanced the ball a little bit," but said his firm was still studying the situation and hadn't decided how to advise shareholders on their votes.

Young described the arguments presented by Lazard and Icahn as "a textbook argument against the conglomerate discount." He also noted that large conglomerates tend to "go in and out of style. Bankers build up companies and then break them up, and they earn fees on both sides."

Last week Parsons took a swipe at Icahn, telling investors on a conference call that the company wouldn't consider a "flavor-of-the-day" approach to boosting its lagging share price, apparently referring to moves by other media companies to spin off assets in hopes of boosting their share prices. Earlier this year Viacom Inc. split into two companies.

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On the Net:

Icahn group's site: http://www.enhancetimewarner.com/home

Company Web site: http://www.timewarner.com/buildingvalue

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جام‌جم آنلاين: روزنامه‌نگار سابق تايمز، ايونينگ استاندارد و گاردين، سردبير جيوشيي كرونيكل، قديمي‌ترين روزنامه يهودي جهان شد.
به گزارش گاردين، «ديويد رو آن»، در ماه مه، درست يك سال پس از اين كه سردبير سابق آن، ندتمكو اين روزنامه 165 ساله را رها كرد تا به عنوان دبير سياسي روزنامه «ابزرور» به اين روزنامه ملحق شود.
«روآن» در حال حاضر براي تايمز و ايوينينگ استاندارد مي‌نويسد. او پيشتر در گاردين كار مي‌كرد و در شكل‌گيري وب‌سايت آن نقشي اساسي داشت.
«روآن»، جاي جف باراك را مي‌گيرد كه مي‌خواهد به اسرائيل بازگردد.

Jewish Chronicle appoints new editor

Julia Day
Tuesday February 21, 2006

David Rowan
Rowan: previously worked at the Guardian and helped launch the Guardian Unlimited website. Photograph: David Sillitoe

David Rowan, the Times and London Evening Standard journalist, has been appointed editor of the Jewish Chronicle, the world's oldest Jewish newspaper.

Rowan takes up the post in May, almost a year after former editor Ned Temko left the 165-year-old title to join the Observer as chief political correspondent.

Rowan writes for the the Times and is the Evening Standard's media interviewer. He previously worked at the Guardian and the Guardian Unlimited website.

Rowan will take over from managing editor Jeff Barak, who is returning to Israel.

Peter Levy, the chairman of the Jewish Chronicle, said: "We are very excited to be appointing David Rowan. His strong track record as an editor and innovator will build on the foundations created by Ned Temko and Jeff Barak to extend the JC's reputation, in print and online, as a forum for debate, analysis and broad-range coverage of the issues affecting Jews at home and worldwide."

Mr Rowan said: "It is a special honour and responsibility to edit such an authoritative newspaper as the Jewish Chronicle. As I seek to broaden its reach in the digital age, I intend to build on its vital 165-year-old role at the heart of the British Jewish community."

Temko, an American and former war correspondent, edited the Jewish Chronicle since 1990. During his tenure the paper was named weekly newspaper of the year in 2003.

Although selling just 34,608 copies a week, the title punches above its weight in terms of influence as a barometer of Jewish religious, political and social thought.

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