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By Stephen Foster on February 9, 2012
This is becoming a bit of a trend, News International has awarded its £28m ad account (does it really spend that much on external media?) to holding company WPP. WPP is to set up ‘Team News’ to handle News international’s three remaining papers in the UK, the Sun,The Times and the Sunday Times (the News [...]
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By Stephen Foster on October 25, 2011
About 80 per cent of non-aligned or independent shareholders do anyway according to this analysis by the BBC’s Robert Peston of votes cast at last Friday’s AGM of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Nearly as many want elder brother Lachlan to leg it off the board too (although he’s had nothing to do with the News [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged agm, BBC, bskyb, James Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch, news corporation, News International, phone hacking scandal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, saudi investor, shareholder votes, the news of the world, the sun, the sunday times, the times, uk newspapers
By Stephen Foster on August 11, 2011
The true cost is the 50 per cent uplift a successful deal to buy all of British pay-TV BSkyB would have contributed to News Corporation’s just-announced annual profits of $2.89bn. BSkyB made £1bn or $1.6bn profit in its last financial year, making the $12bn or so News Corp was prepared to pay for the 61 [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged 20th century fox, avatar, bskyb, Chase Carey, David Cameron, James Murdoch, news corporation, news of the world, phone hacking scandal, profits, Rupert Murdoch, Sun, the sunday times, the times
By Stephen Foster on July 25, 2011
Part of the Murdochs’ ‘defence’ to the UK Parliament’s culture, media and sport committee last week in the midst of the phone hacking scandal was that they were too busy to spend much time on a business – News International newspapers – that only produced one per cent of News Corporation’s vast profits. This, of [...]
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