Channel 7 have announced that the US version of The Amazing Race will be “fast tracked” to Australia to air on February 27. But given it premieres in the US a full week before, how fast is that? asks Dan Barrett.
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Seven permitted multichanneling of sports and news
Stephen Conroy has announced that Channel Seven are permitted to multichannel the tennis on 7Two. With the event on the anti-siphoning list, broadcasters are restricted from scheduling sports like this away from their primary analogue channel, writes Dan Barrett.
Conroy’s convergence review must surrender control
The challenge for the government’s review of convergence is to let go of the idea that we can control the media like we could before digital.
Ten punts big on making 6pm-7pm timeslot its own
Ten will introduce an extra hour of news and current affairs, at a cost of $20 million.
Aussie boob tube for blokes
The Seven Network has announced a new digital TV channel marketed specifically towards men. Set to leave the locker room late next month, 7Mate will have an emphasis on sport and cars. Struth! says Dan Barrett.
Rebates to TV networks just an ugly bribe
The three commercial TV networks, Seven, Nine and Ten, went weak at the knees in congratulating the Government for its decision on rebate for licence fees. Can anyone say “election year”?
How Fashions on the Field suits Peter Jackson
Could Fashions on the Field — that Derby Day staple and the heart of fashion democracy — have been hijacked by corporates? wonders Jane Nethercote.
The story behind the … oh forget it. Let’s call it ‘Crikey got snowed’
Steve Carey and Peter Morris of Channel Seven News should be commended on their powers of persuasion, in convincing Crikey that their story “Sudanese Gangs Caught on Camera” wasn’t riddled with falsehoods. Put simply, Crikey got snowed, writes Media Watch executive producer Tim Palmer.
Shooting the messenger over the AFL drugs scandal
Leslie Cannold in The Age online today wheels out the good old cliché deployed any time the media come under attack for anything: “Are we shooting the messenger”? The question is raised over Channel 7’s conduct in publishing material from the medical records of two AFL players.
AFL medical records raise issues of law and ethics
Despite the Victorian media accusing the AFL of joining “a concerted effort to keep from the public a drug scandal that has rocked a top Melbourne club”, as the Sunday Herald-Sun put it, this is an unfair characterization of the issue, writes Greg Barns.
