首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
You are going to read a list of heading and a text about Conrad Block’s recent strategy. Choose the most suitable heading from t
You are going to read a list of heading and a text about Conrad Block’s recent strategy. Choose the most suitable heading from t
admin
2010-06-17
84
问题
You are going to read a list of heading and a text about Conrad Block’s recent strategy. Choose the most suitable heading from the list for each numbered paragraph. The first and last paragraph of the text are not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use.
A. Separation of Hollinger
B. Profits of newspaper
C. The ideal business model
D. Hollinger denies the rumor
E. Difficult to share in the international market
F. Lord Black sells his remaining local newspapers in Canada
He has been selling newspaper titles in Canada. backing a new one in New York and trying to quash rumours that he is selling them in Britain. What exactly is Conrad Black, chairman of Hollingar, ex-Canadian, newly ennobled Briton, up to?
(41)______.
Last month, Lord Black of Crossharbour as he is now known, sold his remaining local newspapers in Canada. This came shortly after he had offloaded his residual 50% stake in the National Post, the Canadian daily paper he founded only in 1998, to Can West Global Communications. This Canadian media group had already picked up the other half last year, along with most of Lord Black’s other local newspapers in the country, for $1.8 billion.
(42)______.
Shorn of its Canadian operations, and apart from the tiny Jerusalem Post, Hollinger has now been pared down to two chief assets: the Chicago Sun-Times, plus a bagful of local papers in that area, and the Daily Telegraph, Britain’s most popular broadsheet paper. After the group recently reported a net loss of $9 million for the nine months to September. excluding exceptional items, rumours swirled that even the Telegraph might be for sale.
(43)______.
Not so, says Hollinger. Although earnings at the Telegraph and its Sunday sister are well down on last year, and the papers plan to sack up to 40 editorial staff, they still provide most of the group’s profits. "There is no substance at all to the story that the Telegraph is for sale", says Daniel Colson, Hollinger’s vice-chairman. Indeed, having stemmed the National Post’s losses and booked a good price for the sale of most of its Canadian assets last year, the group has cut its heavy debt burden and is wall-placed to look for new projects.
(44)______.
But what? Economies of scale in the newspaper market are best achieved with the local and regional press. The ideal business model, says Peter Kreisky of Mercer Management Consulting, is a geographical cluster of regional titles. With local monopoly power, this can bring down the cost of paper and ink, of printing and distribution, and of marketing. Hollinger enjoys many of these benefits in the Chicago area, where it has 97 papers.
(45)______.
But it is far harder to achieve cost-sharing across international borders. Most national papers are still owned in their home country. Those that belong to an international owner, such as Hollinger, Tony O’Reilly’s Independent News and Media and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, concentrate on English-speaking markets.
Yet owning newspapers is as much to do with kudos and influence as it is about profits. Although he would not rule out opportunities even in non-English-speaking parts of Europe, Lord Black’s sights now seem to be set on the United States. He has just made a small bet on a new quality paper, The New York Sun, by putting in $2 million, or about 13% of the total investment. Although Hollinger stresses that it is only loosely involved, the project is nevertheless intriguing. There has long been a view that New York. a city of 8 million people, ought m be able to support more than one all-round quality newspaper; yet the New York Times, with a circulation of 1.1 million, has no direct cross-town rival. Lord Black’s experience of launching a new title, The National Post, in Canada may be salutary. He managed to create a franchise from nothing in a competitive market, and in doing so stirred up political controversy in consensus-minded Canada. But it never made him any money, which may be why his bet on The New York Sun is so modest. Buying established but faltering papers would make more sense. "There will be investment opportunities arising from this economic downturn that H. advantage of", says Mr. Colson, "not only in New York, but elsewhere in the US".
选项
答案
E
解析
本段中心话题是本地报纸很难从国际市场争得份额,选项E比较符合。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ea44777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
TheNHSremainsoneofthereasonswhypeopleareproudtobeBritish.Itprovidesoutstandingcaretomorethanamillionofus
WritealettertoMr.Greentoapplyforajob.Intheletter,youshould1)showyourinterest,2)describeyourpreviousexper
Inanew【C1】________publishedinthejournalHeart,researchersfoundthatSwissadultswhotookoneortwodaytimenapsperwee
Iamoneofthemanycitypeoplewhoarealwayssayingthatgiventhechoicewewouldprefertoliveinthecountryawayfromth
Googlerecentlyintroducedanewservicethataddssocial-networkingfeaturestoitspopularGmailsystem.Theserviceiscalled
Writeanessaybasedonthefollowingchart.Inyourwriting,youshould1)interpretthechart,and2)giveyourcomments.You
"What’sthedifferencebetweenGodandLarryEllison?"asksanoldsoftwareindustryjoke.Answer:Goddoesn’tthinkhe’sLarry
Forthepastseveralyears,Ihavebeenimmersedinthestudyoffriendship,andamongthemanythingsIhavelearned,oneidea
Humanbeingsinalltimesandplacesthinkabouttheirworldandwonderattheirplaceinit.Humansarethoughtfulandcreative
随机试题
阿卡波糖是
下颌正中颏部双发性骨折或粉碎性骨折均可导致舌后坠引起呼吸困难,其原因是
从1980年开始,综合开发的思想连同征收土地使用费,作为一项重要的改革措施,明确地记载在国务院批转的《全国城市规划工作会议纪要》中,指出()。
某住宅楼设置了消防栓,从价值工程功能分析的角度分析,安装该设备对于住宅楼具有()功能。
按照我国现行规定,施工现场()人以上的临时食堂,污水排放时可设置简易有效的隔油池。
习近平在二十国集团领导人第十次峰会发表题为《创新增长路径共享发展成果》的重要讲话,强调二十国集团要加强宏观经济政策沟通和协调,落实2030年可持续发展议程。()
长期总成本曲线与短期总成本曲线有什么区别和联系?
有甲、乙、丙三个盒子,第一个盒子里有4个红球1个白球,第二个盒子里有3个红球2个白球,第三个盒子里有2个红球3个白球,先任取一个盒子,再从中任取3个球,以X表示红球个数.求所取到的红球不少于2个的概率。
Itseemslikeeverydaythere’ssomenewresearchaboutwhetherourfavoritedrinksaregoodforus.Oneday,sciencesaysagl
WhichpairofwordsisNOTaminimalpair?
最新回复
(
0
)