Channel Ten


Axing The Simpsons would be commercial suicide for Ten

Last night’s solid ratings performance by the Ten Network was overshadowed by a erroneous online report claiming it would soon axe The Simpsons.

Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings: Ten fattens audience with Biggest Loser

Ten won because it had to keep faith with viewers with The Biggest Loser and it showed a fresh Bondi Rescue which got its best ever figures.

Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings: Easter, what a waste of time it is (well in TV land)

Easter, what a waste of time it is. A great early year holiday break, buns and eggs up to the eyeballs and beyond, fish, if you are of that way, BBQs, of course and lots of sport. But not much else, especially on TV and outside of sport.

Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings: Seven news a winner

The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.

Media briefs: Stephen Conroy for sale on eBay

Channel Ten shareholder pain … Conroy up for sale on eBay … North Korea to try US journalists

Ten shares on the nose of brokers

The Ten Network’s attempts to raise up to $90 million in an issue of 120 million shares at 75 cents raises more questions than the announcement answers, writes Glenn Dyer.

Last night’s TV ratings

he Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.

Last night’s TV ratings

Winners and losers from last night’s TV.

Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings: Last night’s TV ratings

The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.

That was the year that was in TV. Next year will only be worse

2008 will gone down in the annals of Australian TV history as the year before the money crunch hit, writes Glenn Dyer.

Last night’s TV ratings

The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.

Local media should brace for tougher times ahead

Goldman Sachs have said the credit crunch and dislocation in financial markets will have a big impact on local media companies, helping force dividend cuts and more cost cutting measures, writes Glenn Dyer.

Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings: Last night’s TV ratings

The winners and losers from last night’s TV.

Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings: Last night’s TV ratings

The Winners: Seven News was tops (less dominant than Monday and Tuesday nights) with 1.395 million viewers. Criminal Minds on Seven at 8.30pm averaged 1.379 million, Today Tonight was 3rd and averaged 1.273 million for Seven at 6.30pm and the Two And A Half Men episode at 7.30pm averaged 1.246 million at 7.30pm. 5th was […]

Freeview, digital and analogue teevee: commercial station’s big temper tantrum

So what’s Freeview? Well, it’s not like the UK Freeview. In fact it’s not clear what it is, because it’s not a new service of any kind, writes Bernard Keane.

Last night’s TV ratings

The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.

Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings: Last night’s TV ratings

The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.

Media briefs

Sell newspapers? Nah … Wrong wrong wrong … Zen and the Art of New York Times Headline Writing … An Obama tilt in campaign coverage …

TV09: ABC spins soap, Ten goes for the hip pocket

Be afraid, be very afraid for TV in 2009, writes Glenn Dyer.

Australian planets aligning for a Murdoch power play?

As the Sun King has flown into to Australia to deliver the ABC Boyer lectures the planets may be aligning to allow him to make one final major play in his home country, writes Peter Cox.

Last night’s TV ratings

All the winners and losers from last night’s TV ratings.

Last night’s TV ratings

The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.

Last night’s TV ratings

Winner and losers from last night’s TV ratings.

Last night’s TV ratings

The Winners … the Losers … News & CA … the Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.

Media briefs: Russian police killing web site owners, sub editor stuff ups

Russian police killing web site owners… sub editor stuff ups… Nine and Seven still battling it out over home grown content…