The magazine was again sold in 1988, after an uncertain period during which several candidates, including Rupert Murdoch, attempted to buy the magazine.

He sold TV Guide, Seventeen, and a few other publications to Australian publishing magnate Rupert Murdoch in 1988 for US $ 3 billion, announcing that he would devote the rest of his life to philanthropy.

Davis sold this interest to Rupert Murdoch for $ 250 million in March 1984.

When it failed to win readers, the Sun was sold to Rupert Murdoch – who immediately relaunched it as a more populist and sensationalist tabloid and a direct competitor to the Mirror.

In 1977, frustrated by regulatory blocks that prevented him from expanding into the Sydney market, Murdoch sold WIN Television and purchased a 46 % share in Ten Sydney.

When Murdoch became an American citizen in 1985 so that he could expand his media empire in the United States, Australia's media ownership laws obliged him to dispose of the flagship television stations, which were sold to The Northern Star, an offshoot of the Westfield Group conglomerate controlled by property tycoon Frank Lowy.

Studies of public filings have found signs of the same Goldsmith-backed Hong Kong-based team taking stakes in operations as diverse as Soviet strategic ports in Vladivostok and Vostochny, and in Zee TV, India's dominant private television broadcaster later sold to Rupert Murdoch.

It was at first thought that News might use FMR as the foundation of a new international entertainment company, but Festival struggled while Murdoch was in charge and after his departure its fortunes declined rapidly ; the company was wound up in late 2005 and its remaining assets were sold.

HWT sold off The News in 1949, and Sir Keith Murdoch took control of the paper two years later.

Rupert Murdoch sold The News that year and many of its journalists moved to The Advertiser.

The Herald and Weekly Times, owner of HSV-7 and ADS-7, was sold to Rupert Murdoch in December 1986 for an estimated $ 1. 8 billion.

Murdoch sold the station in 1979 to the head of Paramount Pictures ' international distribution arm, Bruce Gordon, in order to purchase controlling interests in capital city stations TEN-10 Sydney and ATV-0 ( now ATV-10 ) Melbourne.

In the early 1980s, Warner was the target of a hostile takeover bid by Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch ; although this attempt did not succeed, Warner sold off several of its assets, among them Atari and Global Soccer, Inc., the subsidiary that operated the Cosmos.

In 1972, Sir Frank Packer sold his newspaper flagship, The Daily Telegraph, to Rupert Murdoch, a decision he reportedly regretted.

Davis sold this interest to Rupert Murdoch for $ 250 million in March 1984.

Schiff sold the Post to Rupert Murdoch in 1976 for a reported $ 31 million.

In 1957 the paper was sold to the Herald and Weekly Times group, under the management of Chief Executive Keith Murdoch ( Rupert's father ), who utilised the printing presses, but closed the Argus and sold off the broadcasting interests.

In the late 1980s it moved its offices to Tarrytown, NY and in 1990 Murdoch sold the magazine to The Enquirers parent company American Media Inc. ( Murdoch now owns the New York Post, which, although it has more of a regional, news-centered focus, still has significant celebrity coverage.

When the deadline came, Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch was negotiating to buy the paper and save it.

The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times ( founded in 1821 ) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News International, itself wholly owned by the News Corporation group headed by Rupert Murdoch.

Murdoch wrote a paper, " Account of the Application of Gas from Coal to Economical Purposes " which was presented to the Royal Society in 1808.

In this atmosphere the new paper attracted staff from Murdoch broadsheets who preferred not to move to Wapping.

Some former The Wall Street Journal reporters have said that since Rupert Murdoch bought the paper, news stories have been edited to adopt a more conservative tone, critical of Democrats.

Maxwell accused Murdoch of employing " the laws of the jungle " to acquire the paper and said he had " made a fair and bona fide offer ... which has been frustrated and defeated after three months of manoeuvring.

( This paper has no connection with the current Australian, which was established by Rupert Murdoch in 1964.

However, Young's relationship with The Sunday Times cooled notably when Rupert Murdoch took over the paper in 1981.

Similarly, Rupert Murdoch is said to have regretted missing the opportunity of launching his own London paper.

In November 2006, The Australian journalist Caroline Overington was awarded both the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalism and a Walkley award for investigative journalism over her coverage of the AWB Oil-for-Wheat Scandal for the paper.

In 1806, Murdoch presented to the Royal Society a paper entitled " Account of the Application of Gas from Coal to Economical Purposes " wherein he described his successful application of coal-gas to lighting the extensive establishment of Messrs. Phillips and Lea.

Murdoch re-formatted the News as a more tabloid-styled paper, while the Express retained its original, conservative format.

Founded in 1840 as The Port Phillip Herald, it is merged with its morning tabloid sister paper The Sun News-Pictorial and the first issue of the new Herald Sun, described by owner Rupert Murdoch as " the world's first 24-hour newspaper ", with morning and afternoon editions, is published on 8 October. On the same day, the 49-year-old afternoon tabloid The Daily Mirror in Sydney is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

It started on 24 January 1986 when some 6, 000 newspaper workers went on strike after protracted negotiation with their employer, News International ( parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, and chaired by Rupert Murdoch ).

1948 ; this work also includes such historical figures as Alcibiades, Aristippus, Avicenna, Democritus, and Dionysius the Younger as speakers ), and Iris Murdoch, who included not only Socrates and Alcibiades as interlocutors in her work Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues ( 1986 ), but featured a young Plato himself as well.

Before entering state politics, Gallop worked as a tutor and lecturer at both Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia, and was a City Councillor at Fremantle from 1983 to 1986.

It started on 24 January 1986 when some 6, 000 newspaper workers went on strike after protracted negotiation with their employers, News International ( parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, and chaired by Rupert Murdoch ).

After Nikita turned face on Ivan to join their enemy Dusty Rhodes in 1986, Ivan teamed with Vladimir Petrov and Dick Murdoch to get revenge.

Australian newspaper publisher Rupert Murdoch and his company, the News Corporation ( the controlling owners of the 20th Century Fox film studio ), purchased KTTV and the other Metromedia television stations in 1986, and those stations formed the basis for the new Fox television network.

* Sarkissian, W, Perglut, D. 1986, Community Participation in Practice, The Community Participation handbook, Second edition, Murdoch University

In 1986, Barry Diller, Jamie Kellner and Rupert Murdoch tapped the then 28-year-old Ancier to be the founding Entertainment President for the new Fox Broadcasting Company, where he put 21 Jump Street, Married with Children, The Simpsons and In Living Color on the air.

Six years later in 1986 Australian newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdoch purchased Metromedia television stations, including KRIV, which became one of six founding owned-and-operated stations of his new Fox television network.

Metromedia owned the station until 1986 when Rupert Murdoch, after buying 20th Century Fox, purchased the Metromedia television stations to form the nucleus of the Fox network.

The Institute was established in 1986 by her husband Lachlan's grandmother, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch and is the largest child health research institute in Australia.