Mr. Turner apparently is looking for ways to inject new capital into his communications empire, which has been suffering of late.

Like it or not, in a time seemingly dominated by giant communications empires, the amateurs may hold the key after all.

The Bancrofts, owners of a communications empire, were never very good at communicating with one another.

Schlafly has, for the better part of the past 50 years, been a one-woman right-wing communications empire.

In 1928 he joined Triangle, his father's publishing company, and quickly built a sprawling communications empire.

She became something quite different - the effective steward of a multimillion-dollar communications empire.

From a small regional base, he has built a communications empire around the idea, one whose modest national profile belies its size and reach.

Murdoch had long been building a global communications empire, and he had the cash to finance his dreams.

An American communications empire engages a future-minded social critic.

It was the first communications empire and set a pattern for American-style communications businesses as they are known today.