Friday 17th January 1997
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Packer's Channel Nine network will televise both the Super League competition and the Australian Rugby League competition - a significant coup for Super League.
Young Murdoch and Packer made the announcement jointly with the News Limited rising star saying, "I applaud the successful outcome of negotiations and I am pleased to resume cordial commercial relations with Nine. I have the highest regard for Mr (Kerry) Packer as a distinguished Australian businessman and broadcaster."
The result is that the ARL's State of Origins series will be dropped from its Monday night spot and will be relocated to a less popular timeslot.
As a result of the deal Channel Nine viewers will see all five tests scheduled for this year - two against New Zealand and three against Great Britain - and the preliminaries and final series of the World Cup Challenge.
Mr Murdoch (who seemed to do most of the talking) said that Foxtel Pay TV network would show all remaining Super League games live and have replay rights to all games carried on free-to-air, "meaning Foxtel will be the only outlet where every single Super League game will be available".
Last night's pact between the two waring camps could have major implications for the Australian media as Federal Communications Minister Senator Richard Alston is expected to loosen cross-media ownership restrictions when he hands down the results of the investigation into media ownership in March this year.
The Sydney 2000 Olympics get into trouble with a large investment.
Alston is one of the keynote speakers at the 19th annual Pacific Telecommunications Council Conference which starts on Sunday. He arrives three days before and leaves two days after his speech staying at the Sheraton's Waikiki Hotel at a cost of US$825 a night - a bill which is being footed by the Department of Administrative Services. Rooms at the hotel start as low as US$140 but Alston has set himself up with one of the best - 38 floors above the surf - with spectaculor views of the famous private Waikiki beach which is reserved for hotel guests.
The information came as a result of a leaked memo.
Alston is currently have a bit of a tax payer funded global "business" trip during his Christmas holidays - two weeks in London (investigating cross-media ownership and the BBC), six days in New York (drumming up business in anticipation of the proposed deregulation of the Australian telecommunications market) and a day yesterday in Los Angeles.... yeah, yeah and pigs do fly!
Hello from Cape Town
I echo your sentiment re the cost (to taxpayers) involved rescueing extremist sportsmen/women especially when egotistical courses are set by yachtmen who, I dont think, want their own records broken. The amount of publicity they get belongs to the dedicated sailors, namely the moms and dads who build their own boats, sell up everything and set to sea with their families to follow a dream. Often with little more than sailing ability and a compass and no EPIRP.
If races like the Vendee Globe Challenge continue then the sponsors should be forced to lodge hefty deposits with the countries like Australia, South Africa and the South Americas in the event of a rescue. Events like this jeopardise rescue operations in legitamate maritime emergencies and limits must be set or they must go it alone.
>From the wife and mother of yachtmen.
Mrs Anne Maunder
The men of the match were Anthony Stuart who took 5 wickets for Australia including a hat-trick! Stuart had figures of 5 wickets for only 26 runs in 10 overs. The other star was Michael Bevan who took 3 wickets for 36 runs in his 10 overs - but more importantly steered Australia home with a magnificent 78 not out.
This guy is a star - watch him!
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