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… Read on >>
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… Read on >>
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… Read on >>
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… Read on >>
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… Read on >>
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… Read on >>
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,… Read on >>
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… Read on >>
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… Read on >>
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… Read on >>
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… Read on >>
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,… Read on >>
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… Read on >>
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”… Read on >>
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… Read on >>
Industry,Talking Points,Television,Television Programmes November 20th 2008 — 10:31 pm