Rupert Murdoch voices his concerns about Kevin Rudd Kevin Rudd is delusional if he thinks Australia can lead the world or act as a bridge between the US and China, according to Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corporation. He's very intelligent, he's very interesting, but he's kidding himself with the G20 - the grouping of the top 20 countries in the world, Mr Murdoch said. "(President)...
MILAN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - News Corp said on Friday it will launch a free digital terrestrial television channel in Italy next month in a move that heats up competition with Italy's Mediaset and state broadcaster RAI.
News Corp and Time Warner Inc reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit as movie studios and cable network gains helped offset declines at their newspaper and magazine units. Both News Corp and Time Warner, which have been cutting costs to keep ahead of falling revenue, raised their forecasts, and News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said he expected 2010 to be a year of stability. The results...
http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/?p=1170 "If Rudd thinks we can set an example for the rest of the world with a cap-and-trade system on greenhouse gas emissions – the ETS – all it would do is push up the cost of living in Australia and the rest of the world will laugh ."
Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said he’d like one of his children to succeed him, amid regular discussions about who will take over at the U.S. media company.
An interview with Rupert Murdoch was broadcast on BigPond TV, courtesy - I take it - of Sky News, which is 30 percent owned by News Ltd. I take it that the cross from BogPond TV's normal feed came from Sky because the reporter in the chair made the disclosure before the interview started.He covered three areas:News Ltd's way of handling structural changes in the economic model of news
Burning the Midnight Oil for Breaking the Silicon Cage Two weeks ago, I speculated on applying the "Teaspoon Model" to the problem of protecting small, niche, video streaming markets faced: on the one hand with Copyright Protection laws focused on protecting the cash flows of large media distribution middlemen; and, on the other hand, with a plague of bloodsucking bootleg streaming sites,...
Difficult times for MySpace MySpace, once the centerpiece of Rupert Murdoch’s digital strategy, has fallen “significantly” short of expectations and is jeopardising a critical $900m internet search agreement with Google . Weaker traffic means the News Corp division is now expected to receive about $100m less from a deal that had underpinned investors’ confidence in the MySpace...
England may have lost their first autumn international but Jonny Wilkinson was Herculean on his return Jonny Wilkinson spoke for so long in answer to Sky's post-match questions that he almost wrecked Rupert Murdoch's evening schedules. The words flow so freely because the joy of being back in an England shirt is a thrill he thought he might not feel again. The news from Twickenham is that England...
RUPERT Murdoch has called on Australia to commit more troops to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan if US President Barack Obama showed resolve in the war.
What a week for Kevin Rudd: polls down, boat people still at sea, the Productivity Commission damning his spending, Rupert Murdoch calling him “delusional” and…
New York — following six months of rumor, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly announced wedding plans during a joint news conference. “We’re a natural fit,” said Murdoch. “And for those of you who seem somewhat aghast at this, there have been stranger bedfellows. Look at Barney Frank and his, um, [...]
There's a minor hoo -ha about Rupert Murdoch's admission of a delay in moving some News International content behind pay walls. I have no inside track, but it's pretty clear that the manoeuvre needs some choreography to work effectively in various markets - and that the choreography could be deemed anti-competitive. If we assume it's premium content, not basic news, that will require a subscription...
Rupert Murdoch says Kevin Rudd is too sensitive when it comes to media criticism, and is more interested in strutting the world stage than running Australia.