QTQ9 newsreader Heather Foord may have recently announced her resignation from the news desk, but with still another year to go in her contract is tipped to take over as host of the Brisbane-based Extra.
The move would see current Extra host Jillian Whiting moved to Nine News.
News boss… Continue Reading >>
Appointments, Television, Television Programmes November 30th 2008 — 12:35 am
Former Nine Network presenter Mike Munro is reported to have auditioned for the Seven Network’s new Sunday Night program planned to challenge 60 Minutes.
Munro was seen at Seven’s Epping studios during the week, prompting speculation that auditions for the new show are now in progress.
Also believed to be… Continue Reading >>
Appointments, Celebrities / Personalities, Television, Television Programmes November 30th 2008 — 12:19 am
As the commercial radio silly season descends, movements abound across the country.
Nick Condon, formerly Mornings announcer at KOFM Newcastle and Operations Manager of Radio Newcastle (KO and NXFM) has left the surf city after four successful years and has joined the team at ARN Sydney as Operations Manager.
“Nicko”… Continue Reading >>
Radio November 29th 2008 — 4:52 pm
The decision by Network Ten to bump its long-running US soap The Bold And The Beautiful from 4.30pm to 6.00pm from Monday has outraged fans of the show.
The 20-year-old series has occupied the 4.30pm timeslot, as lead-in to Ten News, for twelve years. Before then it was shown at… Continue Reading >>
Television, Television Programmes November 29th 2008 — 1:22 am
The axe is set to fall on the Nine Network quiz show Temptation with the network’s decision not to renew its contract with host Ed Phillips.
A reworking of the long-running Sale Of The Century format that ran from 1980 to 2001, Temptation was ‘rested’ at the end of 2007… Continue Reading >>
Celebrities / Personalities, Television, Television Programmes November 29th 2008 — 1:01 am
The Nine Network is believed to be planning another pilot for a possible magazine and entertainment program to lead in to the 6.00pm news.
The idea to replace the current news lead-in, cheap import Antiques Roadshow, has the support of network chief David Gyngell.
Today co-host Karl Stefanovic and news… Continue Reading >>
Celebrities / Personalities, Television, Television Programmes November 29th 2008 — 12:50 am
The ABC was a predictable big winner in the 53rd annual Walkley Awards for Journalism last night, but it was a commercial network that took out gold. Ratings-wise at least, the Nine Network’s long-running Sunday programme departed this year with a whimper, ravaged by budget cuts and lacking the unwavering… Continue Reading >>
Industry, Print, Radio, Television November 28th 2008 — 9:15 am
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has filed an application to the Federal Court of Australia seeking a civil penalty against Sydney radio station 2UE for breaching a condition of its licence.
The breaches relate to 13 incidents during 2007 where 2UE failed to disclose commercial relationships during the… Continue Reading >>
Radio November 26th 2008 — 7:21 pm
ABC staff have been advised via email that the implementation of a new computer editing system will result in job cuts in newsrooms throughout the country.
The new system will see journalists become responsible for editing their stories under a scheme called “desktop editing”.
In the email, obtained by AAP,… Continue Reading >>
Television November 26th 2008 — 6:44 pm
The Australian reports that local internet service providers have cried foul over “unfair targeting” by a coalition of film and television businesses.
Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Disney, the Seven Network and Twentieth Century Fox, amongst 29 others, lodged a lawsuit against broadband provider iiNet for allowing users to download and… Continue Reading >>
Industry, New Media, Talking Points, Telecommunications, Television November 25th 2008 — 11:39 am
A former Imparja staffer says the station did not give any indication that it would be dropping its local news service. The Aboriginal-owned station laid off at least seven staff last week and cut its flagship current affairs program and news updates.
It moved into new, multi-million dollar headquarters earlier… Continue Reading >>
Industry, Talking Points, Television, Television Programmes November 25th 2008 — 11:24 am
In her 25 years at CNN, Christiane Amanpour has hopscotched the world, the very model of a foreign correspondent, turning up at seemingly every war, genocide, famine and natural disaster, slipping through previously closed borders and interviewing even the most recalcitrant of foreign leaders.
But there is one thing she… Continue Reading >>
Subscription Television November 24th 2008 — 3:16 pm
Regional TAM, the agency that collects and reports ratings data for regional television markets, has announced that it will start reporting ratings for digital-only channel TDT from the end of the month.
Currently in Tasmania, digital channels such as TDT and ABC2 are not picked up in the ratings and… Continue Reading >>
Digital Television, Ratings, Television November 22nd 2008 — 12:44 pm
The network’s marketing blitz has commenced.
The Spy Report has been told Freeview will launch on all five networks at 6.29pm Monday.
This same-time launch is being called a “Roadblock” as there is no way around not seeing it. That is, unless you’re the 20 per cent of viewers watching… Continue Reading >>
Digital Television November 21st 2008 — 4:16 pm
ABC News reports that the Alice Springs-based remote station Imparja Television has cut seven reporting and research staff.
Imparja scrapped its half-hour news bulletin last year in favour of Nine’s Brisbane news bulletin, replaced by a weekly current affairs show, Footprints. Sources told the national broadcaster that the program will… Continue Reading >>
Industry, Talking Points, Television, Television Programmes November 20th 2008 — 10:31 pm