Robert Maxwell | Robert Maxwell interview | Evening News launch | TN-86-108-013 — Transcript

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1. 0:06the london standard currently sells well
2. 0:08over half a million copies making it the
3. 0:10second biggest evening newspaper in the
4. 0:12world but now for the first time since
5. 0:14the evening news folded six years ago
6. 0:16its monopoly position is seriously under
7. 0:19threat daily mirror publisher robert
8. 0:21maxwell has well laid plans for a rival
9. 0:23newspaper the daily news there are
10. 0:25claims that he's run into problems with
11. 0:27his distribution and in mobilizing
12. 0:29potential advertisers but these claims
13. 0:31he shrugs off we're absolutely unchecked
14. 0:33with an autumn launch we i have no
15. 0:36problems
16. 0:37so you can categorically deny those
17. 0:39reports that say you haven't got enough
18. 0:41advertising and you haven't got your
19. 0:42distribution worked out absolutely
20. 0:45the what we have not yet fully completed
21. 0:48is the arrangement for the printing but
22. 0:50otherwise we have our distribution is
23. 0:54worked out and there's no problem about
24. 0:56advertising
25. 0:57but associated newspapers who own the
26. 0:59standard say they'll beat maxwell by
27. 1:01reviving the evening news one paper will
28. 1:04go bust that's a certainty if maxwell
29. 1:06produces an evening paper there'll be a
30. 1:08war between him and us and one will go
31. 1:09busting it's gonna be him but with two
32. 1:11newspapers coming from the same house
33. 1:13we'll squeeze the revenue pips out of mr
34. 1:14maxwell
35. 1:16so the battle lines are drawn up and a
36. 1:18fierce fight looks certain but it will
37. 1:20be londoners who'll decide who wins paul
38. 1:23green in fleet street for terms news