The Papua New Guinea Post-Courier is a newspaper based in Konedobu , Port Moresby , Papua New Guinea .
7-494: It was established on 30 June 1969. Its parent company, The Herald and Weekly Times (later purchased by News Corp Australia ), had acquired what had then been the two main newspapers in Papua New Guinea, the three-days-a-week South Pacific Post and the twice-weekly New Guinea Times Courier , and decided to amalgamate them into one publication. It was the first national daily newspaper in Papua New Guinea. Luke Sela
14-672: A Court . Holmes a Court agreed to drop his $ 1.4 billion bid for the Melbourne-based Herald and Weekly Times in return for the right to buy its two Perth newspapers, The West Australian and its afternoon counterpart, The Daily News , as well as the Melbourne television station of Channel 7, HSV-7 . Murdoch in turn acquired Queensland Press in January 1987 via his family company Cruden Investments for $ 700 million. This article about an Australian corporation or company
21-599: A controlling stake in The Advertiser of Adelaide in 1929. From 1929 until 1987, HWT owned and operated Melbourne radio station 3DB . In 1929, 3DB along with 3UZ participated in experimental television broadcasts using the Radiovision system. The Advertiser took a stake in The News two years later. The News was sold in 1949. The HWT bought The West Australian in 1969. By 1986 Queensland Press
28-527: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Herald and Weekly Times The Herald and Weekly Times Pty Ltd ( HWT ) is a newspaper publishing company based in Melbourne , Australia . It is owned and operated by News Pty Ltd , which as News Ltd, purchased the HWT in 1987. The HWT's newspaper interests date back to 1840 and the launch of The Port Phillip Herald . The company publishes
35-461: The morning daily tabloid Herald Sun , which was created in 1990 from a merger of the company's morning tabloid paper, The Sun News-Pictorial , with its afternoon broadsheet paper, The Herald . The Herald had a 150-year history, and The Sun News-Pictorial a 68-year history, in Melbourne. The HWT had bought The Sun News-Pictorial in 1925. The HWT also publishes The Weekly Times , aimed at farmers and rural businesses. The HWT bought
42-399: Was editor from 1978 to 2000. The Post-Courier has a daily circulation of 26,262. The paper is majority owned by Rupert Murdoch 's News Corp . The Post-Courier's readership is mainly urban, and it is considered to be influential in the community. This Papua New Guinea -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Oceanian newspaper-related article
49-570: Was the largest shareholder of HWT which was targeted for a takeover by the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch in the course of the big media shake-up of 1986/87, which was enabled by the Australian Federal Government under Prime Minister Bob Hawke to curry favour with the nation's major media and their owners in order to foster its re-election chances in the 1987 Australian federal election . In the end, some major assets of HWT were divided up between Murdoch's rival Robert Holmes
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