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As a team this group is an unknown quantity. It is a team very much of Bruce Gyngell’s making. The influence of executive chairman T. Aitken is not making itself felt in the day-to-day running of the company. The initiative has undoubtedly passed to Gyngell who sees himself as the television professional put in by one of the major shareholders (Kerry Packer) to rescue the station and, not least, its investors. It bears no relationship to the programme team which obtained the franchise. [IBA Paper 138, August 1984]
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Bonner, P., Aston, L. (2003). The Wizard of Oz: May 1984–1992. In: Independent Television in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287136_8
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