News review July 2013
Corp for concern
Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited changes its name to News Corp Australia, keeping the Foxtel assets with the newspaper brands despite a global realignment putting TV and film business into the newly minted 21st Century Fox.
OMD mauls Lions system
OMD Sydney’s surprising Media Agency of the Year win at Cannes causes organisers to rethink the system for awarding the prize, as the agency is entered as co-creators in winning categories by DDB.
So News were finally able to use the trademark 21st Century Fox. I’d heard that someone had registered the name in the 1980s or 1990s and were demanding a huge amount to sell it to News Corp.