Bruce Gordon is an Australian citizen, residing mainly in Bermuda He ranks 891 on The World's Billionaires 2007 with a net worth of $1. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Ba (officially The Bermuda Islands or The Somers Isles) is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. 2 billion.
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Early life
Bruce Gordon worked as a magician during the 1939-45 War, in promotion for the Tivoli theatre circuit and managed Australian sales for Desilu Studios (US comedian Lucille Ball's production house) before serving as an executive for Paramount International Distribution. He worked at Paramount International Television for 35 years.
Television
He gained control of Television Wollongong Transmission Ltd (later rebadged as WIN) in 1979. Gordon expanded WIN Television's operations in the 1990s, buying out the other shareholders in 1991 after buying two licenses in Queensland and Crawford Productions that dated from 1945 and passed through the control of Rupert Murdoch and Christopher Skase. Crawford Productions is an Australian Television production company founded by Hector Crawford, and now owned by the WIN Corporation. is gay Bold text' Keith Rupert Murdoch', AC, KCSG (born Melbourne, March 11 1931 usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-American Christopher Charles Skase ( September 18, 1948 - August 5, 2001) was an Australian businessman who later became one of his country's By the end of the decade WIN had licenses and transmitters in New South Wales, Western Australia, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania. Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country } The Australian Capital Territory (ACT is the Capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and its smallest self-governing internal territory Tasmania is an Australian island and state of the same name It is located south of the eastern side of the Continent, being separated from it by Bass The WIN Corporation also operated property and land development operations, network management and a radio station in Wollongong.
Through his WIN Corporation (which owns WIN Television), Bruce owns 24 regional TV stations as well as the property on which they sit. WIN Corporation is an Australian based media corporation that owns the WIN Television network NWS, and STW in Australia WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales Australia Changes in Australian media ownership rules in 2007 were expected to make WIN a prime buyout target, though Gordon said he would only entertain bids of at least $780 million. In April 2007, the WIN Corporation made binding offers to buy both STW and NWS. STW is an Australian television station owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Perth, Australia NWS is an Australian television station owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Adelaide, Australia Bruce Gordon's WIN Corporation also owns public shares in Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, Network Ten and Sunraysia Television. Publishing and Broadcasting Limited ( PBL) was one of Australia's largest companies with interests primarily in media and gaming Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia 's three major commercial television networks. Sunraysia Television is the publicly-listed parent company of Swan Television and Radio Broadcasters former owners of STW -9 ( Channel 9 Perth) Gordon has proposed making WIN independent of the Nine Network. The Nine Network, or Channel Nine, is an Australian television network based in Willoughby, a suburb on the North Shore of Sydney
WIN has a 48% stake in Sunraysia Television, previous holder of the STW television broadcast licence in Perth and thus of Channel Nine Perth. Sunraysia Television is the publicly-listed parent company of Swan Television and Radio Broadcasters former owners of STW -9 ( Channel 9 Perth) STW is an Australian television station owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Perth, Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. The company is controlled by Eva Presser, whose husband runs the Sunraysia Natural Beverages company. She resisted a 1995 takeover bid by the WIN Corporation or the Perth station, which remained Sunraysia's only significant television broadcasting asset. In February 2007, PBL Media announced that it would acquire 100% of Sunraysia Television subsidiary Swan Television & Radio Broadcasters Pty Ltd for AU$136. 4 million. On the 21st of April the board of Sunraysia Television endorsed WIN's revised offer of $163 million. [1]
Football
Bruce Gordon is believed to be ready to bankroll a Wollongong-based team in the A-League 2008-2009 season if bids from either Gold Coast or North Queensland fall over at the 11th hour. The A-League is the premier Australasian domestic Association football competition He is believed to have finally agreed in principle to finance an Illawarra team in the A-League. The franchise has been more than a year in the making, and while it had made significant progress in terms of planning, sponsorship and infrastructure, without Gordon's investment the bid has lacked backing. Gordon is no stranger to football - he also headed the consortium which owned Wollongong Wolves in the old NSL. Gordon's in-principle agreement to finance a home-town team vaults the Illawarra bid into the A-League reckoning - if not for next season, then certainly for 2009-2010. The A-League is the premier Australasian domestic Association football competition There is also the prospect of football filling a vacuum at WIN Stadium should NRL side St George llawarra withdraw from the area, as has been suggested. WIN Stadium is a multi-purpose Stadium located in the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. The St George Illawarra Dragons are an Australian professional Rugby league football team [2]
Obscurity
There has been no major independent biography of Gordon or study of WIN. Some insights are offered by reports of licence inquiries by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA), available on its site, and in works dealing with competitors such as Packer, Murdoch and Bond. See also Censorship in Australia The Australian Broadcasting Authority was an Australian government agency whose main roles were to regulate Broadcasting
Bruce is married with 2 children, Andrew and Genevieve.
References
- ^ Sharples, Ben. "WIN wins Perth station", Herald Sun, 2007-04-21. The Herald Sun is a morning Tabloid Newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date)
- ^ billionaire ready to bankroll A-League bid