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CHAPTER 16 - GET THE LION ON THE LINE AND LET US TRACK YOU DOWN A BETTER DEAL
jam packed full of people sitting at desks. It was one of Kerry’s cost saving measures and encouragement to people from a company he had just bought to move on!
We did the deal and Lion got going. Alan Mason was appointed Managing Director and Tony Greig Marketing Director and between NW and Consolidated Press we owned the company 50-50.
On one of the occasions I went to see Kerry for more money and I found him quite fascinating. He had a great love for cricket, he highly respected Tony and all the players Tony had brought with him in setting up World Series Cricket. This event changed not only Australian cricket but cricket around the world as we know it today.
Like me, he was a cricket tragic and I am told that he used to watch about three or four televisions at one time. If something came on Channel 9 that he didn’t like he would be phoning the MD. This continued even after he had sold Channel 9 to
Alan Bond.
Anyway, on this occasion, I needed an injection of $3m. I went
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