A source at Foxtel tells The Spy Report that A-SPAN, which will launch on Austar and Foxtel on January 20, will be renamed to A-PAC – The Australian Public Affairs… Read on >>
Subscription Television December 29th 2008 — 4:58 pm
A modern tradition of Christmas in the UK, the alternative Christmas message broadcast by Channel 4 has this year caused offence again by featuring Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Foreign… Read on >>
International Media December 26th 2008 — 7:04 pm
Rove McManus‘ US television debut, The List, has flopped. The local talk show host has worked hard to break into the US television industry, however ratings released today for the… Read on >>
Celebrities / Personalities,Industry,International Media,Ratings,Talking Points,Television Programmes December 25th 2008 — 8:05 pm
The Queensland Government has launched an audacious bid to steal the hosting position from Melbourne, where it has been for the best part of its 50 year history.
The pitch… Read on >>
Peter Fray, editor of Fairfax paper The Canberra Times has been announced as the new editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, replacing Alan Oakley who stood down from the position… Read on >>
Appointments,Print December 22nd 2008 — 5:19 pm
A copy of a video showing Seven stalwart Andrew O’Keefe in a drunken state on a night out on Melbourne’s Chapel St has been obtained by the Sunday Herald Sun… Read on >>
Celebrities / Personalities December 20th 2008 — 11:00 pm
Australia’s most successful radio personality Alan Jones is recovering in hospital after a secret three-hour operation to remove a brain tumour.
It is Jones’ second major surgery this year. In… Read on >>
Radio December 20th 2008 — 6:05 am
Charlie Cox, one of the co-hosts of SBS‘ Top Gear Australia, has announced that he will not be returning to the program for its second series in 2009.
Business commitments… Read on >>
Celebrities / Personalities,Television,Television Programmes December 19th 2008 — 9:26 pm
The radio airwaves around New Zealand will sound very different in 2009, with changes to breakfast slots in the main centres.
Paul Holmes, nationwide Newstalk ZB breakfast host, left his… Read on >>
International Media,Radio December 19th 2008 — 3:16 pm
Ten Network chairman Nick Falloon said the broadcaster has cut back staff across the company as it feels the impact of the advertising downturn.
Mr Falloon would not say how… Read on >>
Television December 18th 2008 — 12:13 pm
Channel 9 has claimed bitter rival Channel 7 forked out a large sum of money to keep secret a video of one of its major stars misbehaving.
Nine spokesman David… Read on >>
Celebrities / Personalities December 17th 2008 — 8:50 am
Eddie McGuire could make his TV hosting comeback early in 2009.
McGuire, former host of The Footy Show, Who Wants to be a Millionaire and 1 v 100, is being… Read on >>
Celebrities / Personalities,Television Programmes December 16th 2008 — 8:51 pm
Low-income households and pensioners could be given a free set-top box to convert analog TVs to receive a digital signal as the Federal Government gears up for the biggest changeover… Read on >>
Digital Television December 15th 2008 — 4:29 am
Jessica Rowe – humiliated in 2006 when her then Channel 9 boss Eddie McGuire was indiscreet about plans to “bone” her – has been sacked again.
Rowe hasn’t had her… Read on >>
Celebrities / Personalities December 15th 2008 — 4:21 am
Former All Blacks forward John Drake, a member of the New Zealand team that won the 1987 World Cup, died today in Mt Maunganui at the age of 49.
Drake,… Read on >>
Uncategorised December 13th 2008 — 5:08 pm