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Airdate: Murdoch’s Scandal

SBS screens a PBS documentary which goes inside the struggle over the future of News Corporation.

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Next week SBS screens PBS documentary Murdoch’s Scandal, which goes inside the struggle over the future of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s reputation and his family’s fortune.

However this is already available on the PBS site.

For over half a century Rupert Murdoch’s business audacity and political shrewdness built one of the world’s most powerful media empires.

Now his dynasty is under threat – not from outside competition, but from shocking accounts of bribery, blackmail, and invasion of privacy. The scandal has prompted criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic.

It has also cracked open the insular world of the Murdoch family, its news executives, and the political elite who court their favour. Today, the 80-year-old owner of the Wall Street Journal and FOX News Channel is in the fight of his life.

Correspondent Lowell Bergman tells the story of the battle over the future of News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s reputation and his family’s fortunes.

Wednesday 25 July, at 9.30pm on SBS ONE.

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  1. “If Lachlan Murdoch harbors hopes of a return to a senior executive role at News Corp, his stewardship of Australia’s Network Ten may not be helping his cause. The half-year ratings released Monday show the combined audience shares for Ten’s three networks — flagship Ten and digital channels One and Eleven — fell to 19.9%, down from 21.9% in first-half 2011 and deeper into third place in the market behind leader Seven (30.4%) and Nine (27.9%). Since Rupert Murdoch‘s son took the reins of the network in late 2010 (initially as interim chief executive, then as executive chairman), the value of his 9% stake acquired for $A128 million has plummeted by 47%. And that was before he coughed up a further $35.7 million in June when Ten raised $200 million by issuing new shares.” – deadline.com/2012/07/lachlan-murdoch-network-ten-australia-ratings-decline-news-corp-future/

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