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NEWS CORP. PAY-PER-VIEW IN AUSTRALIA
Published November 14, 1994
"Despite recently casting doubt on the economic viability" of Australia's pay TV market, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. plans to join government-owned Telstra Corp in a $226.4M shared investment. The two companies plan to develop programming, including sports and news, as well as ethnic and children's channels and "some limited interactive services" such as home shopping via cable in '95 (Witcher and Brindal, WALL STREET JOURNAL, 11/14).




