If rumour is right, Lachlan Murdoch is taking a leaf out of his dad’s Fox News playbook by hiring populist right-wing commentator Andrew Bolt to front a new Sunday morning talk show on Ten.
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Andrew Bolt’s slot: Video Hits out-rates Meet the Press
If Ten wants starts a Sunday morning talk show to accommodate the likes of Andrew Bolt and his right-wing views, it’s in for a long, expensive learning experience.
Jason Wharburton announced as Ten CEO
James Wharburton, the Chief Sales and Digital Officer of the Seven Media Group, has been appointed as the new CEO of Ten Network Holdings Ltd, reports Dan Barrett.
podcast Televised Revolution Podcast: iiNet … Charlie Sheen … Canadian TV viewing …
The Ten CEO was replaced by a member of the Ten Board. The star of the biggest TV show in the world has had his show canceled and the third biggest ISP in Australia are back in court fighting Hollywood.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: congratulations, Lachlan
We’d like to congratulate Lachlan Murdoch on his appointment as (acting) chief executive of the Ten TV network.
Reviewing diversity in a converging media
If you were starting from scratch in regulating media ownership, what would you count as influential?
Crikey Says: There’s a reason we regulate for media diversity
History students call it the “Great Man” theory — the tendency to simplify historical events down to the whims of the powerful.
Crikey Says: Does Gina want to have her say?
Why has Australia’s richest woman, who inherited and built her fortune from digging up iron ore, bought 10% of the Ten TV network?
Rinehart joins the Ten billionaire’s club — so what’s she playing at?
There is a more than touch of irony in the news that Gina Rinehart has purchased a 10% stake in Ten Network, given her well-known dislike of giving media interviews or revealing very much at all about her vast mining empire, Hancock Prospecting. So what’s she playing at?
Crikey Says: The boys are back in town
Paranoid? Who, us? Some commentators think so. One in particular accused Crikey of being “nutjob paranoid” about the Murdoch dominance of our media.
Essential: we trust Aunty, but Rupert’s power must be curbed
News Limited supremo Rupert Murdoch should not be allowed to control the majority of Australian newspapers, according to an Essential Research survey of media ownership and trust in news and current affairs.
Packer’s formula for Channel Ten just not the One
The solid ratings yesterday on Ten’s sports channel One for the Formula One race from South Korea expose the nonsense at the heart of James Packer’s arguments that One should be closed and something cheaper broadcast.
Sky News Australia via Ten? Pretty Unlikely
Recent speculation that James Packer will axe one of Ten’s sports channels and replace it with a Sky News service is very pie in the sky and takes some considerable liberties with common sense, writes Dan Barrett.
What Packer wants to do and why
James Packer’s main game remains, well, gaming, but his calculated play to wrestle control of Ten has some obvious intentions: namely to remake the network as a stand-alone entity, build relationships with Foxtel and cut back on investing in news, writes Terry McCrann.
Let’s remember Packer isn’t very good at TV
James Packer is not and has never been a positive influence in TV. He has been sceptical about the future of FTA TV and print, enthusiastic about new media. He never wanted to stay in the old media, rejecting it for gambling.
George Negus quits SBS for news at Ten
BREAKING NEWS: George Negus is heading back to commercial television, quitting SBS to spearhead Channel Ten’s revamped news line-up.
Fairfax, Ten emerge from dark days with profits intact
Fairfax Media and Ten Network were nearly crippled by debt burdens, slumping ad revenues, profits were fanciful and they were unwanted in the market.
Ten spends millions on news — and shunts Neighbours to digital
Ten is boosting costs by $20 million a year and employing 100 extra people around the country to produce two new early evening news and current affairs programs. Iconic soapie Neighbours gets shunted to a new digital channel, Glenn Dyer explains.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: a vicious newspaper turf war?
Rumours are rife in suburban Brisbane that Fairfax or APN is about to make a move and take on Quest Newspapers in what promises to be a vicious turf war in the community newspaper market.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: No Christmas spirit in the public service
Which was the tight-arsed government department that docked everyone’s pay (or forced them to make up the time!) because of some employees leaving five minutes early on Christmas Eve?
