Harold Mitchell to appear in SBS interview tonight
Media agency pioneer Harold Mitchell will continue what is beginning to look increasingly like a farewell tour with an appearance on SBS tonight.
As Mumbrella reported earlier this month, Mitchell is set to step down as executive chairman of Aegis Media in the next few weeks.
Tonight he will be interviewed by Ellen Fanning on The Observer Effect at 8.30pm.
The SBS program details:
The man Packer saved
Harold Mitchell may be the most powerful man in Australian media, but few outside the industry know his name or the level of influence he and his companies exert over what we watch, read, listen to and browse each day in the never-ending search for information and entertainment.
This week on The Observer Effect Ellen Fanning will meet the man who once dreamed of being chairman of the ABC but has for almost 40 years been in charge of the financial taps that irrigate Australian media after being plucked from the brink of bankruptcy by Kerry Packer.
A confidant of the likes of Packer, Murdoch and Stokes, Mitchell was one of the pioneers of media buying in Australia but has also had a major influence on the arts as former chairman of the National Gallery of Australia, and sport helping launch the Rebels Super 15 franchise in Melbourne. He has also been a major supporter of indigenous arts and launched the philanthropic Harold Mitchell Foundation.
The Observer Effect will reveal the real story behind the saw-miller’s son, a teetotaller since his twenties who has spent much of his life battling obesity before undergoing lap band surgery and losing more than 70 kilos.
The unique interview show that uses the news events of the week to look behind the people who shape Australia’s business, politics and culture. It also reveals how these prominent Australians are themselves shaped by the news.
Previous guests have included Seal, who revealed he feared social media more than drugs, Bob Carr, who admitted Labor was relying on Fortuna, the God of Luck, for electoral success, and controversial mining magnate Clive Palmer who said rebuilding the Titanic was a way to bring East and West together.
Our interview with Mitchell:
THE CHANGING NATURE OF THE BUSINESS:
CULTURE AND PHILANTHROPY:
THE GLOBAL ECONOMY:
THE STATE OF THE INDUSTRY:
AGE AND THE FUTURE:
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