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By Stuart Smith on March 19, 2013
Oh Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! they chortled in their joy! The political class seems intoxicated with having finally, excruciatingly, achieved cross-party consensus on regulating the press. Everyone, it seems, is a winner. Dave has gambled – with losing a vote in the House of Commons, and implicit in it a momentous amount of face – [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics, PR | Tagged Barclay brothers, David Cameron, Ed Milliband, Leveson, Nick Clegg, parliament, Rupert Murdoch, Tina Weaver, uk press regulation, Viscount Rotheremere
By Stephen Foster on February 5, 2013
John Malone’s Liberty Global, a big US-based cable company, is planning a bid for the UK’s Virgin Media according to the Financial Times. Virgin Media, in which Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin holds just a three per cent stake (despite appearances to the contrary – he appears in most of its ads) is valued at a [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged Alexander Lebedev, Evgeny Lebedev, John Malone, liberty global, london evening standard, london local tv, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Richard Branson, takeover bid, virgin media
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 January 21, 2013
Blimey, ‘independent directors’ standing up to Rupert Murdoch. These bods (not the same ones presumably) were first appointed in 1981 when Margaret Thatcher allowed owner of the Sun Rupert Murdoch to buy The Times and the Sunday Times. When, shortly afterwards, he moved distinguished Sunday Times editor Harold Evans to The Times and then fired [...]
Posted in Analysis, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged independent directors, James Harding, John Witherow, Martin Ivens, merged paper, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, the times, undertakings
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 21, 2012
It’s been an interesting year but one that, as Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, more noted for “the dog that didn’t bark.” The dog that didn’t bark, even though lots of people thought they heard its woof, was Publicis Groupe’s bid for Interpublic. This was the big story of the summer [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, christmas, Dan Wieden, David Petraeus, IPG, Jimmy Savile, Lord Patten, Michael Roth, publicis groupe, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tony Hall, WPP
By Stephen Foster on December 13, 2012
81-year old Rupert Murdoch is ringing the changes in his newspaper empire as he prepares to spin it off as a separate company next spring. News International boss in the UK Tom Mockridge has already gone after losing out to Wall Street Journal boss Robert Thomson to be head of the new entity and now [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Craig Oliver, culture secretary, James Harding, Maria Miller, newspaper company, Paul Dacre, Rebekah Brooks, Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, the times, Tony Gallagher
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 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 24, 2012
Well it is an epic if you think back to what advertising for the Sun newspaper used to be like – cheese, cheese and more (very cheap) cheese. News International, reeling from the closure of the News of the World last autumn, appointed a ‘Team News’ from WPP to handle its biggest-selling and most profitable [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media, News | Tagged Gary Hoffman-Gill, get involved, grey london, Prince Harry, Rupert Murdoch, Sir Martin Sorrell, sun ad, team news, WPP
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