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By Stephen Foster on January 24, 2013
Football saved Rupert Murdoch’s (part-owned) BSkyB from an early grave and now the ever-active media mogul (in his ninth decade) is hoping it can extend the life-support system for his British newspapers. His News Corporation company News International has secured the rights to show Premier League ‘near-live’ clips (as they call them) from all its [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged barcelona, bskyb, manchester united, Mike Darcey, mobile rights, near-live clips, news corporation, News International, Premier League, real madrid, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on December 26, 2012
At this time of year – in the UK at least – we hear a lot about the impending doom for a number of high street retailers (so far unspecified) who are struggling to pay their next quarterly rent bill even though their tills are stuffed with cash from Christmas and the sales. Therefore it’s [...]
Posted in Analysis, Finance, Media, News | Tagged news corporation, news of the world, Rupert Murdoch, Simon Fox, the guardian, the times, trinity mirror, Wall Street Journal
By Stephen Foster on December 3, 2012
Fairly fresh from losing over $500m on MySpace, News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has now closed The Daily, his much-trumpeted iPad newspaper. Rupert says: “From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation. Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, fox, ipad newspaper, may space, news corporation, news of the world, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, the daily, Tom Mockridge
By Stephen Foster on November 21, 2012
I’ve no idea how much has been spent on what we used to call corporate public relations over the last decade but it must run into many billions of whatever currency you choose. Since PR firms had the bright wheeze of calling their offer ‘reputation management’ (and you wouldn’t want to be without that would [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Andy Coulson, autonomy, edelman, hewlett-packard, news corporation, omnicom, PR, Rebekah Brooks, reputation management, spinners, WPP
By Stuart Smith on October 23, 2012
Considering the gloating opportunities, @rupertmurdoch has been abnormally restrained. Apart from a terse but prescient: “Saville (sic)- BBC story long way to run. BBC far the biggest, most powerful organization in UK,” nothing has been said on the subject since October 14th. Maybe the old boy has got bored with his favourite hobby, the British [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged BBC, George Entwistle, Jimmy Savile scandal, news corporation, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on August 9, 2012
News Corporation has announced that the costs of the phone hacking and other scandals at its UK newspapers have risen to $224m as it announces lower operating profits and a $2.8bn write-down its global newspaper business that plunged the company into a $1.55bn quarterly loss. Which makes you rather wonder why the company bothers with [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance | Tagged Andy Coulson, loss, news corporation, newspapers, phone hacking, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch, writedown
By Stephen Foster on June 27, 2012
Which looks like a pretty cunning plan. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is planning to hive off its troubled UK newspaper business into a separate company (along with its other papers like the Wall Street Journal), leaving its ‘entertainment’ assets – Fox, Star in Asia and, presumably, its various Sky TV businesses in a bigger, supposedly [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, company split, fox, news corporation, ofcom, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on May 30, 2012
More than 50 per cent of WPP shareholders are likely to vote against boss Sir Martin Sorrell’s recent pay package according to a report in the Financial Times. Advisory group Institutional Shareholders Services (ISS) says it’s advising its client to vote against Sorrell’s £13m package (about half of which is a ‘new’ deal) and other [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, News | Tagged bank of america, coors, dublin agm, iss, Jeffrey Rosen, John Wren, Maurice Levy, Michael Roth, news corporation, pay package, remuneration committee, shareholder revolt, shareholder spring, Sir Martin Sorrell, team wpp, Vodafone, WPP
By Stephen Foster on May 29, 2012
The Leveson Inquiry entertainment goes on, with Tony Blair appearing earlier this week and being engagingly Tony-ish (the bastard), education secretary Michael Gove (a former employee of Rupert Murdoch as a journalist at the The Times) annoying his lordship with his view that a free press means that you have to accept the rough with [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged BBC, bbc producer, bskyb, Craig Oliver, David Cameron, George Osborne, Jeremy Hunt, Jeremy Paxman, John Humphrys, leveson inquiry, Michael Gove, news corporation, Nick Robinson, Norman Smith, Robert Jay QC, Rod Liddle, the times, today programme, Tony Blair, tory pr man
By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2012
OK, let’s take it from the top: Facebook’s IPO was a fiasco as there was clearly information available about the company’s struggle to reach ad revenue targets that were made available to some investors (the big boys) and not the millions of others who bought into the massively over-priced IPO. This is just Wall Street [...]
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