News Corp. wants to expand its empire wants to have global coverage. It wants to have global coverage, get a larger subscriber base and an acquisition of Hughes allows it to do that -- allows it to essentially have approximately 60 (million)-to-70 million subscribers on a global basis.

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(Murdoch) wants it very badly, he's made three attempts to come into the U.S. satellite television business. As News Corp.'s stock price comes down it becomes harder and harder to structure something that works for everybody.

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