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RUPERT
MURDOCH
The Untold Story of
the Worlds Greatest Media Wizard
NEIL CHENOWETH
CONTENTS
The mayors pest problem distracts, as a dynasty derails in Detroit.
General Motors remains entirely motionless.
Young Rupert Murdoch considers the consolations of philosophy, while his party goes swimmingly.
Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, and the intercontinental consequences of riotous success.
In which Rupert Murdoch finds salvation at a New York soire.
The man who keeps News Corporations secrets has to run.
Anna Murdoch muses on sex and the summer while the family talks money.
Rupert Murdoch and John Malone hurtle round each other.
The Masters of the Universe do brunch, and Ron Perelman thinks he is the clever one.
How Gerry Levin and Ted Turner foiled the Second Coming.
The High Court learns that someone has been listening on the telephone.
Rupert Murdoch declares war on everybody.
Newt Gingrich discovers that friendship has no price.
Televangelists, diamond mining in Zaire, and the perfect childrens program.
Midnight mishaps by footballers, baseball clubs, and a large polo player.
Michael Eisner sets a trap.
The prime minister regrets picking up the telephone.
The Murdochs take some collateral damage but reach escape velocity.
In which a global media baron discovers he has a second chance.
For Joe... slayer of dragons, part-time visionary,
fairest of traveling companions
CHRONOLOGY
| April 9, 1929 | Helen Handbury born. |
| March 11, 1931 | Keith Rupert Murdoch born. |
| September 20, 1935 | Anne Kantor born. |
| January 21, 1939 | Janet Calvert-Jones born. |
| October 4, 1952 | Sir Keith Murdoch dies. |
| October 1953 | Rupert Murdoch joins News Ltd. as publisher. |
| March 1, 1956 | Rupert marries Patricia Booker. |
| August 12, 1958 | Prudence Murdoch born to Rupert and Patricia Murdoch. |
| January 19, 1960 | Criminal libel charges filed against News Ltd.; hung jury. |
| May 21 | Murdoch buys Daily Mirror in Sydney. |
| December 1, 1961 | Murdoch meets President Kennedy. |
| April 28, 1967 | Rupert Murdoch marries Anna Torv. |
| August 22, 1968 | Elisabeth Murdoch born. |
| January 2, 1969 | Murdoch wins control of News of the World in London. |
| October | Murdoch buys London Sun . |
| September 8, 1971 | Lachlan Murdoch born. |
| December 13, 1972 | James Murdoch born. |
| October 25, 1973 | Murdoch buys San Antonio Express and News . Murdochs move to New York. |
| February 4, 1974 | Murdoch launches National Star . |
| 1975 | Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft. |
| September 30, 1975 | Gerry Levin hires satellite to transmit Frazier-Ali Thriller in Manila fight over HBO. |
| November 19, 1976 | Murdoch buys New York Post, and later New York magazine. |
| July 13, 1977 | New York blackout. Post headline: 24 Hours of Terror: A City Ravaged. |
| July-Sept | Son of Sam stories boost New York Post sales. |
| August, 1979 | Anna Murdochs article Motherhood and Mythology is published. |
| 1980 | Charles Ergen moves to Denver to sell satellite dishes. |
| January, 1981 | Murdoch buys London Times and Sunday Times . |
| April 23, 1983 | Times runs Hitler diaries. |
| December 1 | News Corporation buys 6.7 percent of Warner Brothers. |
| December 29 | Nirvana runs Ted Turner on Condor aground off Hobart. |
| Warner Brothers buy Chris-Craft TV stations. | |
| Wedtech directors in secret illegal side deal. | |
| 1984 | Daniel Garners Advanced Communications wins 110WL DBS orbital license in United States. |
| February 10, 1985 | Murdochs British editors plan in secret New York meeting plan move to Wapping. |
| March 21 | News announces it is buying half of Twentieth CenturyFox for $250 million. |
| March 24 | Murdoch discusses TV deal at cocktail party with Barry Diller and John Kluge of Metromedia. |
| April 18 | Ted Turner launches unsuccessful bid for CBS. |
| May 2 | News announces deal to buy Metromedia TV stations for net $1.55 billion. |
| July 26 | Murdoch reveals plan to launch Fox network. |
| August 7 | Turner to buy MGM for $US1.6 billion. |
| September 15 | Rupert Murdoch takes U.S. citizenship. |
| September 23 | News buys other half of Twentieth CenturyFox for $325 million. |
| January 24, 1986 | Wapping newspaper dispute begins in London. |
| March 6 | Michael Milken raises junk preferred stock for Metromedia deal. |
| March 26 | Milken raises $1.2 billion junk bonds for Turners acquisition of MGM. |
| December 3 | Murdoch bids for fathers old company, Herald and Weekly Times . |
| March 1987 | Cable companies bail out Ted Turner from MGM mess. |
| July | SEC in settlement with Michael Clinger over stock fraud claims. |
| October 13 | Murdoch attends Malcolm Forbes cocktail party, skips News Corporation annual meeting. |
| October 20 | Australian stock market crashes after Wall Street. |
| October 21 | Murdochs bank takes security on New York penthouse. |
| October 23 | Queensland Press buys News Corp stock from Cruden above market price. |
| Rupert and Anna sign further bank security in New York. | |
| December 8 | Queensland Press closes deal with three-year bank loan. |
| December 22 | Late-night amendment by Senator Ernest Hollings forces Murdoch to sell New York Post . |
| February, 1988 | News Corp sets up News Datacom in Israel. |
| March 7 | Peter Kalikow buys New York Post . |
| Jun-08 | Murdoch announces plan to launch Sky Television. |
| October 31 | News buys Triangle Publications including TV Guide for $3 billion. |
| February 1989 | Sky begins broadcasting. |
| October 4, 1990 | David Devoe in debt crisis talks with seven bankers. |
| November 2 | Friday Sky and BSB Holdings merge to form BSkyB. |
| November 8 | New York grand jury issues arrest warrant for Clinger. |
| December 6 | Pittsburgh National refuses to roll $A10 million from 1987 Queensland Press deal. |
| February 1, 1991 | 4.15 A.M.: Citicorp calls DeVoe to say last bank has signed override Agreement. |
| March | Australian Securities Commission launches investigation into Queensland Press . |
| October | News Corp stock offering. |
| November 6 | Israeli shareholders agree to sell out of News Datacom for $12 million. |
| March 9, 1992 | BSkyB operations reach break-even point. |
| April 13 | Clinger meets News representatives in London. |
| June 29 | BSkyB agrees to large price rise for smartcards. |
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