The influential Australian media family in this case is--or should I say was--the Packer family. Nine merged a few years ago with Fairfax, who owns Murdoch's main competition in Melbourne and Sydney and is the only major newspaper owner in the country besides Murdoch. Murdoch's only TV holdings are the Foxtel cable/satellite system, which includes Sky News Australia, or Fox News Channel with an accent. He did have some other TV holdings for a while a long time ago.
Mark Jeffries [email protected] On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 2:29 PM John Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > Did they insert a monkey playing cymbals? That would have been an > improvement over Nine's morning shows.... > > It's worth pointing out that Nine is owned by Rupert Murdoch, so that may > have made it an attractive target for the hackers, particularly if they > feel that Murdoch's news operations are steering Australian policy against > China. > > John > > On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 11:51, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nine Network, one of the two commercial networks in Australia that >> dominate the ratings in that country, suffered a weekend cyberattack that >> affected their news and current affairs departments and wreaked havoc on >> live programming on Sunday (including their morning show "Today") and the >> news department's web site: >> >> >> https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/australias-channel-nine-suffers-cyber-attack-disruption-to-live-broadcasts >> >> Nine says that it may take weeks for its news operations to return to >> normal. Besides "Today" and the flagship 6 p.m. regional newscasts, the >> net's best-known news/current affairs product includes the nightly tabmag >> "A Current Affair" (inspiration for the American series of the 80s) and >> their version of "60 Minutes," which has stayed on the air despite >> ViacomCBS (owners of competing Network 10) only renewing the title and >> format rights and not the rights to use stories from the American version. >> >> Some believe that the Chinese government may be involved in the hack--the >> two counties have not been on speaking terms as of late. >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a235eab6-9e4b-4c7b-af4d-d6b75cad812bn%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a235eab6-9e4b-4c7b-af4d-d6b75cad812bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > John Edwards > "You can insure against the weather, but you can't insure against > incompetence, can you?" - Phil Tufnell > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJLXtM%2B_NT1gb9EhkEHp2LYJc%2Br-FDi4gLMhJCj45dLBPBu_iA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJLXtM%2B_NT1gb9EhkEHp2LYJc%2Br-FDi4gLMhJCj45dLBPBu_iA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi-VQLh06v_siASvSbJCAVKyKTKqRF%3Dr7ot%2BPYOCF9qQcQ%40mail.gmail.com.
