(and this media shocker, closer to [my] home) http://gothamist.com/2018/07/27/spectrum_time_warner_merger.php
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:47 PM Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fairfax Media, the owner of Australia's major chain of left-of-center > newspapers including the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age in > competition with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. tabloids, along with a heavy > digital presence Down Under and majority ownership in Macquarrie Media, an > owner of mostly AM right-wing talk stations in the major cities that still > dominate ratings (even if their median age is somewhere north of 60), has > merged with the Nine Entertainment Co., owner of Nine Network Australia, > one of the three terrestrial commercial TV networks (all named after their > channel number in the major cities)--the new merged company, which will > drop the Fairfax and be known as Nine Entertainment, will be similar in > size to News Corp. Australia (although Murdoch doesn't have terrestrial > radio interests and his main TV interests are the Foxtel cable/satellite > services that dominate Aussie non-terrestrial TV)--nobody saw the merger > coming and many reporters at the SMH and Age are angry of now being under > the same umbrella as Nine's checkbook-journalism engaging "current affairs" > shows, the daily tabloid "A Current Affair" (title licensed by Fox for the > 90s U.S. series) and the licensed-from CBS "60 Minutes," which only > resembles the U.S. version in the use of the stopwatch as their logo (and > the current license does not include the use of stories from the U.S. > version): > > > https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul/26/fairfax-nine-takeover-australias-oldest-media-empire-ends-with-4bn-merger > > Fairfax and Nine had already been involved in running Stan, Netflix's main > Australian competitor in the streaming biz (Amazon doesn't operate in > Australia). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
