TV network safe?
NZPA-AAP Sydney The Nine Network was unlikely to close down despite a finding that the owner, Mr Alan Bond, was unfit to hold radio and television licences, the Australian Journalists’ Association said yesterday.
The federal secretary of the A.J.A., Mr Chris Warren, said the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal’s decision on Mr Bond would obviously affect Nine Network ownership. But the industry was
generally unstable anyway because of heavy debts carried by proprietors. Mr Warren said the tribunal had to ensure Mr Bond was removed from control of Bond Media without costing the community an important service.
One option open to the tribunal to avoid “turning the lights out” at the network, he said, would be to refuse to approve the 1984 sale of the network by Mr Kerry Packer to Mr Bond.
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Press, 27 June 1989, Page 25
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