Media Unmade – Chapter ten: Elephant in the Room

Welcome to the latest edition of the Unmade podcast. Today’s edition features another free extract from the audio edition of my book, Media Unmade, which is published by Hardie Grant and available online and in book stores.

Today’s chapter showcases the best and worst of Lachlan Murdoch’s media achievements over the last decade.

In radio, he found a great deal of success, buying DMG Radio and turning it into Nova Entertainment. Radio programmer Paul Jackson was recruited from the UK to launch Smooth FM (and kill off Classic Rock).

In television, it was a catastrophe, with the hasty firing of Grant Blackley leading to Murdoch having to spend a year as CEO at Ten after bungling the poaching of Seven’s James Warburton who was forced to sit out a lengthy gardening leave.