Prime Media Group’s CEO Warwick Syphers will leave the regional media company at the end of the month to relocate to the UK and join digital advertising company Adstream Holdings.
Syphers will take up the new role later during the June quarter, allowing Prime to smoothly transition to a new… Continue Reading >>
Advertising, Appointments, Industry, Regional Television March 5th 2010 — 4:09 pm
A WIN television presenter in Perth claims that he has been sacked while recovering from a heart transplant, triggering an unfair dismissal claim.
Chris Lohse, who has worked as a presenter and weather producer at Channel Nine Perth (owned by WIN), is presently recuperating following a successful heart transplant on… Continue Reading >>
Legal, Regional Television, Television December 10th 2009 — 9:17 pm
The Seven Network’s first attempt at a multichannel, 7TWO, has commenced broadcasting in the Tasmanian and Darwin television markets.
The channel is being carried by local broadcaster Southern Cross Television, who already operate the Seven Network affiliate in both areas. Southern Cross announced their intention to broadcast the channel from… Continue Reading >>
Digital Television, Regional Television, Television, The Spy Report December 1st 2009 — 10:26 pm
The building which houses the ABC in Coffs Harbour, along with other businesses, has been evacuated due to flooding.
Fuel and oil have leaked into the flood water in the town, creating what the State Emergency Service (SES) is calling a “potentially explosive situation.”
The fire brigade HAZMAT crews and… Continue Reading >>
Radio, Regional Television November 9th 2009 — 12:27 pm
A week after the Seven Network launched its multichannel 7TWO, access to regional areas such as the Hunter Valley is still uncertain.
A Prime Television spokesperson could not confirm if or when the channel will be seen in Newcastle, The Newcastle Herald reports, despite claims in The Canberra Times that… Continue Reading >>
Digital Television, Regional Television November 9th 2009 — 5:43 am
The Seven Network’s new digital channel, 7TWO, will be broadcast in Darwin from December.
The Northern Territory News reports that the new channel, which launches this Sunday on Seven in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, will be carried by Darwin’s local affiliate, Southern Cross Television, a month later. It… Continue Reading >>
Digital Television, Industry, Regional Television, Television October 30th 2009 — 9:55 pm
The Seven Network’s new digital channel 7TWO will be broadcast into Tasmania from 1 December.
B&T Today reports that Southern Cross Television, the Seven Network affiliate in Tasmania, will launch 7TWO a month after its launch on the mainland this Sunday.
Meanwhile, OZTAM have advised that they will be reporting… Continue Reading >>
Digital Television, Regional Television, Television October 26th 2009 — 8:30 pm
An advertising downturn and significant impairment charge associated with their American business has seen Macquarie Media Group post a full year loss of $84 million compared to a $19.7 million profit a year earlier.
MMG’s American business, American Consolidated Media’s operating revenue dropped 8.6 percent with their Australian operation, Macquarie… Continue Reading >>
Industry, International Media, Radio, Regional Television, Television August 20th 2009 — 9:45 pm
Optus has announced a mid-August launch for the third in its D series of satellites. Director Paul Sheridan said the launch of D3 would boost the telco’s capacity significantly.
We are especially excited about Optus D3 because, for the first time in a decade, the new satellite will increase Optus’… Continue Reading >>
Digital Radio, Digital Television, Industry, Regional Television, Subscription Television, Telecommunications July 2nd 2009 — 8:00 pm
The ABC has announced plans to merge its television playout operations with regional network WIN Television, with a master playout facility expected to be built in Campbelltown, New South Wales starting in 2010.
The plan is expected to lead to the loss of jobs at both networks, with around 60… Continue Reading >>
Digital Television, Industry, Regional Television, Television July 1st 2009 — 3:51 pm
ACMA has announced plans for a new commercial television service in regional Western Australia that will appear ‘within the next 12 months’. The broadcasting authority will allocate new licenses to parts of the state that do not have access to three commercial stations.
WIN and GWN remain the two sole… Continue Reading >>
Digital Television, Industry, Regional Television, Telecommunications, Television June 18th 2009 — 5:43 pm
The Mercury reports that Tasmanian residents will join viewers in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland when sports channel One HD launches on Southern Cross stations next month.
A Facebook campaign led by sport fanatics Gary Tew and Garry O’Brien attracted more than 10,000 members. Consumer Affairs minister Lisa Singh… Continue Reading >>
Digital Television, Industry, Regional Television, Television June 18th 2009 — 5:26 pm
The UK government has announced a raft of changes to media regulation in its Digital Britain report released overnight.
Parts of the BBC’s license fee funding will be used to pay in part for a universal broadband access, childrens’ programming, and new ITV regional news programmes. The anticipated ‘digital switchover… Continue Reading >>
Digital Radio, Digital Television, Industry, International Media, New Media, Regional Television, Television June 17th 2009 — 9:42 am
Up to 30 Prime Television staff across the country have been made redundant after the network cut its commercial production service. Of the 30 positions axed, 12 are based in Prime’s Canberra office where half of the station’s production workers were told that they would be let go at the… Continue Reading >>
Advertising, Regional Television, Television June 6th 2009 — 3:56 pm