Bruce Gordon (born 4 February 1929 in Surry Hills, New South Wales^[1]) is an Australian businessman. He is the owner of the Australian television network, WIN Television through his ownership of WIN Corporation, the largest shareholder of Network 10 & the largest shareholder of the Nine Network,^[2] and holds a significant stake in Nine Entertainment Co.^[3]

From humble beginning, Gordon juggled fruit to lure customers into his father's street-side fruit stall. He continued to hone his magic skills into his 20s and gained his first performance at Sydney's Tivoli circuit theatre; later progressing onto management of the theatre. During this period he got to know Rupert Murdoch, Sir Frank Packer and his sons, Kerry and Clyde, and Bruce Gyngell.^[1]

In 1962, Gordon was appointed the Australasian sales executive for Desilu Productions, which was sold to Gulf and Western, which renamed the studio Paramount Television.^[1] Gordon worked as a programming executive for Paramount in Hollywood for thirty years.^[3]

Gordon gained control of Television Wollongong Transmission Ltd (later rebadged as WIN TV) in 1979 from Murdoch.^[4] He then expanded WIN Television's operations during the 1990s, buying out the other shareholders in 1991 after buying two licences in Queensland and Crawford Productions.^[1] By the end of the decade WIN had licences and transmitters in all Australian states and mainland territories (except NT).^[4]

Gordon holds a 50% share in the NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons club through WIN Corporation.^[3]

Gordon lives in Bermuda with his second wife, Judith, with additional residences in Sydney and Monaco.^[1] Gordon has a son, Andrew, and a daughter, Genevieve.^[5]

Net worth

As of May 2023^[update], the Australian Financial Review assessed Gordon's net worth at A$1.30 billion.^[6] Gordon is one of eleven living Australians who have appeared on every Rich List, since it was first published in 1984.^[7][8]

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Year	Financial Review Rich List		Forbes Australia's 50 richest
	Rank	Net worth A$	Rank	Net worth US$
2014[4][9]	34	$1.096 billion	40	$0.700 billion
2015[10][11]	46	$1.060 billion	41	$0.720 billion
2016[10][12]	54	$0.990 billion	46	$0.570 billion
2017[3]	107	$0.629 billion	n/a	not listed
2018[13]	113	$0.702 billion
2019[14][15]	134	$0.728 billion
2020[16]	111	$0.892 billion
2021[7]	123	$0.870 billion
2022	110	$1.30 billion
2023[6]	133	$1.07 billion

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