IFE'S TIM ROBERTSON TAKES MEGADEAL IN STRIDE HE MADE $95 MILLION, ATTENDED A POT LUCK, WATCHED TV, WENT TO BED.(BUSINESS)

From: The Virginian Pilot | Date: June 13, 1997| Author: Wagner, Lon | Copyright information

Byline: LON WAGNER, STAFF WRITER

Hey, Tim Robertson, you've just sold International Family Entertainment and pocketed $95 million. What did you do to celebrate?

I watched the Bulls game on TV and I went to bed,'' Robertson said Thursday morning, the day after selling IFE to a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for $1.9 billion.

Actually, Robertson conceded, there was a little more action than that. Before the basketball game, he went to a chu...

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