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WIN TV lifts stake in Nine Network

Bruce Gordon-owned regional network buys up further shares of Nine from US hedge fund, Apollo.

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Regional affiliate WIN Corporation has announced it is buying further shares in the Nine Network, from US hedge fund Apollo.

In a statement released it announced:

WIN Corporation (“WIN”) announced today that its related entity, Birketu Pty Ltd (“Birketu”), a private investment company owned by the Gordon family, has entered into an agreement to increase its shareholding in WIN’s affiliation partner Nine Entertainment Co. Holdings Limited (“Nine”) with the result that on completion of the agreement WIN and Birketu will in aggregate own approximately 14.95% of Nine.

WIN has been a long time investor in Free to Air Television in Australia with investments in a number of Television broadcasters. WIN and the Gordon family have had a close association with Nine dating back to the early days of television in Australia when Bruce Gordon was a director on Sir Frank Packer’s Channel Nine board. WIN has been an affiliate of Nine in Regional Australia for the last 26 years.

WIN and Birketu were advised by KPMG Corporate Finance.

The Australian Financial Review reports WIN will purchase approximately 13 per cent of Nine from Apollo, which has a holding of 22 per cent. The deal is expected to be complete on November 9 and will leave Apollo with 9 per cent of Nine. Bruce Gordon also owns just under 15 per cent of Network TEN Holdings.

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  1. The minnow who ate the shark?
    WIN and Nine have had a close “affiliation” for some 50 years. In 1963 Rupert Murdoch acquired the bankrupt WIN4. Both TCN-9 and ATN-7 began purchasing several hours of new American content from WIN-4 following Murdoch’s buying up anything worthwhile, as a result of 7 & 9 refusing to sell their programs to WIN4. Bruce Gordon and Packers agreed to the strings attached to the sales – to provide WIN4 with TCN9 News, ACA, Don Lane Show, Division 4, Today, Bandstand, etc., etc. In 1979 Murdoch sold WIN4 to Gordon as Murdoch acquired TEN10- and ATV-0.
    No waste at WIN4. No helicopters, no news O/B units.

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