{"id":87334,"date":"2010-03-11T21:53:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sspi-timeline-2003-news-corp\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T21:53:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:53:03","slug":"sspi-timeline-2003-news-corp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sspi-timeline-2003-news-corp\/","title":{"rendered":"SSPI Timeline: 2003 \u2013 News Corp."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 9, 2003: Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corporation, General Motors and Hughes Electronics reached agreement on a deal through which News Corp. would acquire a 34% stake in Hughes (20% owned by GM) including DirecTV, Hughes Network Systems and an 81% ownership of PanAmSat. The acquisition was approved by the US Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice on December 19<\/p>\n<p>Click here to view this event in the SSPI Satellite Industry Timeline<\/p>\n<p>Visit the SSPI Satellite Industry Timeline to tour the decades of the Satellite Era<\/p>\n<p>The SSPI Satellite Timeline is the first interactive site on the Web to chronicle the rich and diverse history of the commercial satellite industry. Launched in October 2007 \u2013 the 50th anniversary of Sputnik \u2013 the Timeline is a learning tool for satellite professionals, students, the news media and the innovative companies that make up the industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 9, 2003: Rupert Murdoch\u2019s News Corporation, General Motors and Hughes Electronics reached agreement on a deal through which News Corp. would acquire a 34% stake in Hughes (20% owned by GM) including DirecTV, Hughes Network Systems and an 81% ownership of PanAmSat. The acquisition was approved by the US Federal Communications Commission and Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}