Who Killed Channel 9

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: 292 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout. The Death Of Kerry Packer's Mighty TV Dream Machine.

Publishers Description: This is a book about the media like no other. How exactly do you kill a TV network that for three decades dominated the Australian television and media landscape With Kerry Packer at the helm, and with a host of stars and personalities that made it the envy of its rivals, Channel 9 dominated the airwaves, consistently winning the ratings battle and fostering a unique esprit de corps within its ranks. But in a few short years, its gone from top dog to also ran - with rock bottom morale, mass redundancies and a resurgent opposition mainly staffed with vengeful former Nine management. Where does the blame lie, and whos brave enough to expose the dysfunction, mismanagement and more than occasional act of bastardry that reads as a how-to of how not to run a business In this extraordinary book, Gerald Stone gives a truly eye-opening inside account of the death of a television network. The result is a drama far more riveting than anything on television, played out by an incredible cast of characters, most of them household names, some of them business legends, and all of them as youve never, ever seen them before. Author Biography: Gerald Stone is one of Australias best-known journalists: an award-winning reporter, founding producer of Nine Networks 60 Minutes and former editor-in-chief of the Bulletin magazine. He has previously written about Kerry Packers Channel 9 in Compulsive Viewing, a much-talked about history of the network in its golden age. His other books include 1932, War Without Honour, and Singo: Mates, Wives, Triumphs, Disasters.

ISBN: 9781405038157