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overview
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only.
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline elsewhere on
this site.
1951 Sangyo Kaikan Building (later Sankei Building) founded
1986 Fujisankei Communications International (FCI) established
in New York
1989 buys 25% of Virgin
Music Group
1990 buys Windswept Pacific Entertainment music catalogue
for US$20m
1992 sells stake in Virgin to EMI
for US$960m
1998 partnership with News and
Softbank in JSkyB satellite
tv service
1999 sells Windswept catalogue to EMI
for £150m
2005 Takafumi Horie's Livedoor makes hostile bid for Nippon
Broadcasting System
2005 Softbank borrows 14.67% of voting rights in Fuji
Television from Nippon Broadcasting System
2005 Livedoor issues 13% of its shares to Fuji TV and
sells controlling stake in Nippon to Fuji
2005 NTT DoCoMo buys 2.6% stake in Fuji Television for
US$176m
2006 Horie arrested for fraud, Livedoor shareprice plummets
2006 Japanese cable broadcaster Usen announces its president
will
personally buy Fuji TV's 12.75% stake in Livedoor for
¥9.5bn (US$81.2m)
2006 Livedoor announces sale of Livedoor Financial Holdings
Co to Advantage Partners Finance Holdings for 17.577bn
yen
2006 Livedoor sells its 51% stake in used car dealer Carchs
Co. for US$112m to Solid Acoustics
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