Similarly, the golden era of Sixty Minutes on Channel Nine came under Packer.

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On Sunday night, he appeared alongside Julia Gillard on Channel Nine's Sixty Minutes, their first joint television interview.

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But as the owner of Channel Nine, Australia's biggest and most successful commercial television network, he wanted to broadcast cricket to the nation, and make it lively.

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Accusations of bias from a New South Wales-dominated commentary team on Channel Nine has even led Queenslanders to set up Radio Maroon to offer a rival service.

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It says a lot about Australian attitudes on the subject that Ms Gillard's image-makers clearly saw the sit-down interview with Channel Nine as a plus rather than as a negative.

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"I came to the conclusion that it would have been against the national interest to give up a deal that is going to be of enormous benefit to the rest of the economy because we couldn't get something on sugar, " Mr Howard told Channel Nine TV in Australia.

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The video, one of nine the channel produced for this season, is part of a content stream that will pop up periodically on digital viewers' screens during the telecast.

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The transaction gives Delta a better channel into London, as the combined network will run nine daily nonstop flights between Heathrow Airport and New York-area airports JFK and Newark.

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In wholesaling, again, people who put together specialized content, like the SyFy Channel, are going to do much better than people who do generalized content and are competing with eight or nine channels.

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