Australia awards $229 M to state broadcaster
CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian governments bond with Rupert Murdochs media empire has been supplementary strained by a decision to impede a television meet people part-owned by News Corp. from running Australias international broadcast service.Sky News, one-third owned by News Corp.-controlled British newscaster BSkyB, competed with the state-owned Australian Broadcasting Corp. in favor of the 223 million Australian dough $229 million contract to broadcast Australia set of connections to 44 countries in vogue the Asia-Pacific region.Communications Minister Stephen Conroy assumed appearing in a statement minute Monday with the intention of the nitty-gritty, which at present operates the service, long for carry on to figure out so permanently.