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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Australian Networks
[under development]
During the boom of the mid-80s Alan Bond, Christopher
Skase and Frank Lowy bought and lost the three national
commercial television networks in Australia.
Within a decade Bond and Skase had lost them, along with
their memory and health. Skase moved to Majorca amid the
collapse of his Quintex conglomerate and is being pursued,
perhaps not very energetically, by the authorities. Bond
served time in prison (and may face further litigation)
after the collapse of the Bond Group. Lowy cut his losses,
concentrating on his property management and development
empire.
Bond and the Nine
Network
Paul Barry's Going
For Broke: How Bond Got Away With It (Sydney, Bantam
00) updates the story in The Rise & Fall of Alan
Bond (Sydney, Bantam 91).
For Nine under Packer ownership refer to the separate
Packer page in this briefing.
Ten Network
Jill Margo's Frank
Lowy: Pushing The Limits (Melbourne, HarperCollins 99)
is a biography of the Westfield property czar who bought
and then offloaded the Ten television network.
Radio
For regional
radio in Australia refer to the separate APN and DMG pages
in this profile.
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