Murdoch regales with tough tales

April 07, 2008 Rupert Murdoch's daughter, Elisabeth Murdoch, regaled MIPTV delegates Monday with tales of her experiences as a "broke acquisitions executive" and "unknown producer" struggling to get meetings when she started out in the business. Delivering the first-day keynote, the chief executive of Shine and former general manager of Brit satcaster BSkyB, said she had started out "firmly at the bottom rung of the MIP ladder" and had been unable to persuade studio execs to take meetings 15 years ago when she began attending the market. The elder daughter of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch proved such a draw that the queue to get in trailed down three floors at the Palais.

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