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- Reg Grundy Organisation (founded as Reg Grundy Enterprises, later known as both Reg Grundy Productions and Grundy Television and known informally as Grundy's) was an Australian-based multinational mass media company, primarily involved in television as a production company but also in distribution and licensing.
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Reg Grundy Organisation (founded as Reg Grundy Enterprises, later known as both Reg Grundy Productions and Grundy Television and known informally as Grundy's) was an Australian-based multinational mass media company, primarily involved in television as a production company but also in distribution and licensing.
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May 9, 2016 · The Reg Grundy Organisation, founded in 1959, produced many of Australia's most-popular television shows. It has since been bought and is now known as FremantleMedia Australia.
The Grundy Organisation was ultimately owned by Grundy Worldwide Ltd, based in the tax haven of Bermuda. In 1995, he sold the Grundy Organisation to the media and publishing company Pearson PLC, now Fremantle, for $386 million. Grundy owned the private media investment company RG Capital, which had shares in several FM radio stations.
The Reg Grundy Organisation first forayed into documentaries in 1973 with THE WRECK OF BATAVIA and POOR FELLA ME. 1973 also saw the Federal Government introduce regulations that influenced the quantity and types of Australian-made shows that television networks would transmit.
May 8, 2016 · In 1995, he sold the Grundy Organisation to what is now, FremantleMedia Australia. Grundy — widely known as RG to his friends — is mourned by his wife Joy Chambers. The couple were married in ...
The Reg Grundy Organisation was renamed Grundy World Wide in the late 1980s, as a means of better reflecting the companies international operations. In 1995 Grundy sold the company to the media and publishing company, Pearson PLC (now FremantleMedia).
One of Reg’s legacies is the idea of ‘parochial internationalism’; that rather than simply licensing formats to allow others to produce copies in their own markets, the Reg Grundy Organisation would produce local versions of the shows via fully owned production companies in each country.
