Mumbo Report: Gerald Stone

http://youtu.be/yYf0X63-Lfs

In this episode of The Mumbo Report, Gerald Stone, author of Compulsive Viewing, Who Killed Channel Nine, Singo and Say It With Feeling talks to Mumbrella editor Tim Burrowes about:

• How he started 60 Minutes in Australia;
• The differences between working for Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packer;
• What he would do to restore Nine to number one;
• “Swashbuckling” George Negus: then versus now.

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Brooke Hemphill

topics Channel Nine George Negus Gerald Stone James Packer Kerry Packer Mumbo Report Nine PBL Rupert Murdoch Studio 33 television TV

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Comments: 5

Client 11 Aug 11

Great interview Tim.Well done!

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Beau Ushay 11 Aug 11

Great piece Tim, interesting piece on Mr Stone

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Chuckster 11 Aug 11

very very good – absorbing.

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suckisucki 11 Aug 11

More pathetic ‘journalism’.

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dkn 12 Aug 11

great story!

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