overview
ABC, SBS, BBC
Advance
Annenberg
AOL
APN
Astors
Aust Networks
Beaverbrook
Bertelsmann
Black
Cox
Disney
DMG
Elsevier
Fairfax
Financial Press
Fleet Street
Hearst
Liberty
Maxwell
News & Murdoch
New Yorker
NY Times
Packer
Sony
Thomson
Time Warner
Tribune
US Networks
Viacom
Vivendi
W Post
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APN and the O'Reillys
APN is the
Australasia's largest operator in regional newspapers,
radio broadcasting and outdoor advertising, with interests
in pay television and digital media.
APN's largest shareholder is Dublin-based Independent News
& Media PLC [INM],
the international media group controlled by the O'Reilly
family. Tony O'Reilly ran the Heinz food giant while
building personal holdings that embraced investments,
property, the media and companies such as Waterford
crystal.
Other INM operations in the region include Wilson and
Horton, a New Zealand newspaper and magazine publisher
with commercial printing and radio broadcasting interests,
notably 33% of The Radio Network (TRN), NZ's largest
commercial operator with 53 stations and more than 50% of
advertising revenue.
studies
Ivan Fallon's The
Player: The Life of Tony O'Reilly (London, Hodder
& Stoughton 94) on the baked beans czar and Australian
provincial media mogul has not been superseded.
holdings
APN claims to be
Australia's largest publisher of regional newspapers, with
14 daily and more than 50 non-daily publications and a
presence in specialist and educational publishing.
It's a major commercial radio
broadcaster, with investments in 11 metropolitan radio
stations in Australia and 55 radio stations in New
Zealand. In
Australia, APN and Clear Channel Communications of the US
jointly operate the Australian Radio Network (ARN), which
broadcasts to more than 3.5 million listeners each week
In New Zealand, ARN has a one third interest in The Radio
Network (TRN), the leading commercial broadcaster with 55
stations.
APN's Pan TV is a joint venture between ARN, public sector
broadcaster SBS and Australian Capital Equity. Its World
Movies pay tv channel is distributed by the three pay tv
carriers - Foxtel, Optus and Austar - and accessed by
about 15% of pay tv homes.
APN's outdoor advertising holdings include Adshel Street
Furniture (partnership with Clear Channel), Cody Outdoor
and Australian
Posters, the major billboard operator that's extended into
advertising on the back of taxis. Its Buspak unit offers
bus advertising in all Australian metropolitan markets and
in Hong Kong.
Online businesses include the classifieds site checkout
and the real estate site homehunter,
with investments in B2B peakhour,
mobile data service bureau itouch
and WAP site builder Soprano
Design.
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