Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … Choppergate news director Lee Anderson rehired in special role by Channel 9 Brisbane … No confirmation on reports Stokes has sold his stake in Ten … PCC chief tells Leveson newspapers should be fined for breaching code …
Channel Nine
Media briefs: The price of a Hun story … occupying inboxes … Leveson latest …
In today’s Media Briefs: how News hid the phone-hacking scandal … ‘Choppergate’ case before Fair Work Australia … Cycling fans mobilise against Nine coverage and more …
Viewers swarm to Nine for winning Aussies
The Third cricket Test against India again confirmed that Australian sports fans like a winning team.
Media briefs: Costa Concordia cock-ups … Nine hits a six … Wilson does well …
In today’s Media Briefs: unfortunate headline/advertising of the day … Viewers swarm to Nine for winning Aussies … Jim Wilson marries Chis Bath, hilarious captions ensue … Front Page of the Day and more …
Media briefs: Naparstek quits The Monthly … Leveson latest … UK journos tweet from court …
Ben Naparstek — the baby-faced wonder who was roundly ridiculed for becoming editor of The Monthly at the age of 23 only to make the magazine more widely-read than ever — has now quit to join Fairfax. Plus other media news.
Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings: The year in TV ratings: Seven scoops the pool
Nine and Ten did everything to avoid mentioning the obvious: that they were walloped by Seven.
Media briefs: No privacy at The Oz … Nine’s 2012 season ‘excitment’ …
The Australian caught out on privacy … “excitment” at Nine for 2012 season … front page of the day … the Department of Corrections …
Nine changes story on pokies spiel
Channel Nine has changed its story on the celebrated rant by rugby league commentators Phil Gould and Ray Warren against the new pokie laws proposed by independent MP Andrew Wilkie, reports Paul Barry.
Media briefs: Plugging John Malkovich … more NotW claims …
The Ten Network has poached an Australian TV news executive from New Zealand to be its new permanent head of news and current affairs. Plus other media news.
Mark Llewellyn: no bones about it, Eddie said it
Not only do I remember Eddie McGuire saying what he said, I remember how he looked as he said it. Including his smirk as he used the “bone” word.
Media briefs: The Oz tunes in … an enlightened Bolt …
It’s truly amazing how Melbourne-based Nick Leys’ account of Leckie’s “robust delivery” at the Sydney launch matched so similarly — identically, in fact — to TV Tonight’s David Knox. Plus other media news.
Seven, Ten breached code of practice requirements
It has taken 18 months, and one of those involved was sacked long ago, but today we finally get the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s pronouncement on the conduct of channels Seven and Ten last year.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Aesop would love our asylum-seeker dilemma
Crikey readers have their say.
Wild child Nine the leader of the complaints (about TV) pack
Nine is the most complained about network in the country. Seven and Ten have had complaints made against them as well, but not on the scale of the Nine Network.
Media affidavits’ greatest hits: legal letters from the swinging d-cks
So the idea was to subject one of the media trends of our time to some analysis, and glean what we could about the state of the industry and the way media companies really work. Or perhaps we just wanted an excuse to rehash the juicy bits.
Simons: TV ratings war … just who is bullying whom?
So two TV channels seriously pretend that they have some kind of moral standing in this bullying debate. In fact, it’s child abuse.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours
Elton ageing disgracefully on Nine. Nine’s new Ben Elton variety experiment may rate well on its debut next Tuesday, but any hopes of attracting a younger audience would have faded as executives watched a full rehearsal of the live comedy show in Melbourne last night. On a garishly lit set at the Docklands studios (Nine […]
The internet vs. the world part 1: gatekeepers lose control as we connect
From WikiLeaks to Underbelly, the common theme of the rise of the internet is that it connects people. And interconnectedness threatens the powerful.
Nine’s new logo motive a Clayton’s rebranding
PBL Media and the Nine Network are no more; it’s now Nine Entertainment Co and Nine Television, well sort of.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to… a press packed with Rafters
Mel Rafter, a character from TV soap Packed To The Rafters, has been written out of the script so an actress can try her hand at Hollywood. So, who cares? Well, we do apparently. Why else would the media relentlessly cover the ‘death’ of a television character as news?
interviews 
Televised Revolution Podcast: a conversation with Les Sampson
This week White Noise blogger Dan Barrett’s podcast features an interview with Les Sampson, Director of Programming and Acquisitions for the Nine Network.
Is Nine really ashamed by Sam Newman’s monkeying-around?
Sam Newman has achieved another dubious first. He is the first television personality to be so persistently obnoxious as to cause his employer to commit to contributing to charity the next time he is racist or sexist.
Mark Latham’s contribution to journalism not all bad
Given that the mainstream media will piss on Mark Latham’s contribution to campaign journalism from a great height, it might be worth thinking about what he did and didn’t do wrong over the last couple of weeks.
Gay double standard, or just confusion in classification?
Was the decision to punish the Nine Network over airing racy same-sex love scenes a case of homophobic double-standard or confusion between two different classification systems? asks Crikey intern Matt de Neef.
Maroon-blooded rebel radio call sends Courier Mail, 2GB to court
Crikey / Crikey Intern / Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Brisbane’s Courier Mail began the morning popping champagne corks to celebrate its all-Maroon radio call of tonight’s deciding State of Origin clash. But later today it will be in court fighting for the right to broadcast its stunt to readers, writes Lawrence Bull.