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    TopTV a porn... pawn?!

    NEWSWATCH: Mergan Moodley, founder of On Digital Media (ODM), which owns TopTV, claims that the station is a pawn in some political game the IDC is playing, reports Mail & Guardian, and Financial Mail wonders what's behind Iqbal Survé's R2bn purchase of Independent Newspapers & Media SA (INM SA).
    Rod BakerBy Rod Baker
    19 Apr 2013
    TopTV a porn... pawn?!

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    • Mail & Guardian: TopTV a pawn in IDC's political game, says shareholder... Moodley - the founder of On Digital Media (ODM), TopTV's owner - reckons that the Industrial Development Corporation "has orchestrated moves to devalue the company (ODM) in order to facilitate a sweetened deal with a potential investor that would buy it out," according to the Financial Mail report.

      He seems to think that the aim is to make a deal sweet enough that would entice a Chinese investor to come in, but the IDC has of course refuted the claim.

    • Financial Mail: Of independent means... Still on the media front, but this time print, Iqbal Survé's move regarding the R2bn purchase of Independent Newspapers & Media SA (INM SA) has some people wondering... Why?

    Read more: On Digital Media, ODM, TopTV, Iqbal Survé
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    About Rod Baker

    Rod Baker is Content Director at Bizcommunity.com. A journalist since before computers, he worked on a wide range of magazines and, in his youth, rose through the ranks from being a lowly and abused sub-editor, to a high and still abused editor and publisher. He has been editor and publisher of a number of magazines, as well as a newspaper. He has edited many books, and written a number too. Email him at moc.ytinummoczib@dor.
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