Often deeply indebted to banks they partly own, they have incurred debts that are hazardous for both borrower and lender.
In other words, the Kochs are directly invested in promoting policies and politicians that the publications they now partly own would ordinarily cover.
By choosing to partly own a network, the league would be creating long-term asset value that would receive advertising revenues and subscriber fees.
"I still think that the Yankees and Cablevision will come to terms, and either Cablevision would partly own the network or keep the games," said John Mansell, an analyst for Paul Kagan Associates.
In most cases the conglomerates that make the movies partly own the magazines and radio stations & TV channels, or, if they don't own them, advertise in them or have some inter-locking connection with them.
When the students finished, the older men asked them to leave the room, then considered whether to make this the university's first attempt to incubate a student business that it would partly own.
