it s about putting your rivals under. mr. maxwell rupert discovered if you start turning the dial down market, ratings go up. sex and murder, blood and mayhem. he bought up 40% of the circulation of newspapers in england. this is his moment to expand. murdoch put his stamp on the city of new york. here i am. you better pay some attention. i m going to have one hell of an impact. as usual, we were drinking one night. the producers, the reporters and me. we always gathered. this is the first concrete block was removed by east german workers. then we hear the berlin wall is coming down. what? we ve got to go. what? a current affairs got to go to the wall? oh, yeah. so we made a few calls. and we commandeered the gulfstream jet. and about eight or nine of us got on that jet at midnight and flew to berlin. a current affair was rupert s baby. the point where i believe rupert wrote a check out of his own checking account every single week for the show. this s
to this empire. early on, rupert develops a machiavellian approach to the newspaper business. it s about putting your rivals under. and mr maxwell certainly has lost. and, rupert discovered if you start turning the dial down market, ratings go up. sex and murder and blood, and mayhem. he bought up 40% of the circulation of newspapers in england. this is his moment to expand. post here! get your post here. new york post. murdoch put his stamp on the city of new york. here i am. you d better pay some attention. i m going to have one hell of an impact. as usual, we were drinking one night, the producers, the reporters and me. we always gathered. the first concrete block was removed by east german workers. and we hear the berlin wall is coming down. what? we ve got to go. what? a current affair s got to go to the wall? oh yeah. so we made a few calls. and we commandeered the gulfstream jet. and about eight or nine of us got on that jet at midnight and flew t
seven metro media stations. located in new york, washington, los angeles, dallas, houston, chicago and boston. the medium is the message, and the message tonight is takeover. and then he buys one of the grand dames of the studio world. for a price of $575 million, rupert murdoch has become sole owner of 20th century fox. 20th century fox, that is. 20th century fox. you now own many newspapers. you own a possible television network. throughout history, we ve heard about the possibility of one publisher taking over too much power. there are some roadblocks for this risky new venture. and to clear them, murdoch is going to need some help from the reagan administration. first, he needs waivers.
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murdoch has taken a gargantuan risk trying to start a fourth television network. he is going to need a ton of cash. everything will be better as a result of this, and it will be remembered as a very important watershed moment. rupert murdoch wanted to introduce technology to his empire. he wanted to produce his newspapers with computers. he s interested in saving money. at the time, print unions had huge control over the production of newspapers. they could walk off the job, and they were resistant to change. he knew that the only way to grow was to break that grip. and he had decided enough was enough. so rupert murdoch came up with this plan. he had set up this alternative printing site in wapping, in east london.