Singo goes on Alan Jones show to unload on Fairfax

 Incensed at reports in the Fairfax press that Alan Jones and Ray Hadley had scotched a potential merger between the Macquarie Radio and Fairfax Radio networks, MRN majority shareholder John Singleton got himself onto 2GB’s breakfast show at around 7:40 am to unload on the Fairfax organisation.

Alan Jones struggled to control the interview as Singo got stuck into Fairfax Chairman Roger Corbet and CEO, Greg Hywood, for the way that take-over and merger discussions between the two groups have been handled by Fairfax over the past decade.

He emphatically denied that Hadley or Jones had anything to do with scuttling the most recent discussions as was widely reported in the Fairfax press yesterday.

In a sometimes rambling 20 minute rant, during which no ads were played and Jones could barely get a word in, Mr Singleton also denied that when MRN was offered Fairfax Radio for purchase a few years ago that the deal failed because he couldn’t come up with the cash.