Tag Archives: culture secretary

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 ...

Ruperr Murdoch’s 81st year could be more significant than any of the others in the media industry veteran’s long and contentious career as boss of News Corporation. Today he’s agreed to sell his social media site MySpace (acquired for $580m ...

Well the other broadcasters are certainly not very keen to pay for it, ITV rather rudely declining coalition government culture, media and sport secretary Jeremy Hunt’s plea to invest a reported ‘tens of millions’ in a new network of local ...

And a pretty good job he makes of it although it’s still hard to see why he didn’t just kick the controversial deal by which Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation wants to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it doesn’t ...

Rupert Murdoch has won the first battle of his campaign to take over the 61 per cent of UK pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB he doesn’t already own by persuading coalition government culture secretary he doesn’t need to block the bid. Not ...

John Prescott that is, former Labour deputy leader in government and now Lord Prescott of somewhere or other. But you have to admit the old boy’s got a point even if he does confuse the (non-existent) Criminal Prosecution Office with ...

Sky Sports veteran football analyst Andy Gray has been sacked for making some mildly disobliging remarks about female line runner Sian Massey (his co-host Richard Keys was rather ruder and keeps his job). The clincher for Gray seems to have ...

Jeremy Hunt being the coalition culture secretary whose name Today programme presenter James Naughtie and then Andrew Marr got so spectacularly wrong on BBC’s Radio 4 last week. Anyway Hunt has got it into his head that the UK could ...