Other investors are also expected to take stakes in Machinima, which so far has raised about $15 million.
Senior partners are expected to have stakes worth $125 million to $150 million, while junior partners would get ownership shares that range from $50 million to $80 million, people at the firm say.
As part of India's aggressive privatization agenda, the government is also expected to sell stakes in two oil giants, the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and the Bharat Petroleum Corporation, and Nalco, the aluminum maker.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller is expected to keep stakes at their current level when she announces the outcome of the review.
Murdoch, through his British satellite firm BSkyB, controls a 22% stake in KirchPayTV, and he had been expected to leverage that stake into a bigger presence in the German television market.
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The Canadian governments are expected to cut their stake from 11.7percentto9.6percentcent, while the UAW retiree health care trust would sell less, cutting its stake from 17.5percentto15percentcentwotwofof the people said.
"Once you've hit the big times and you start to produce these major stakes winners, you're expected to turn out stakes winners," he said.
