Astra Awards reach for the stars (and get a little sweaty) … Astras’ big award … The Market-Place shuts up shop … Last night’s TV ratings
Foxtel
Rudd needs to play cards right on Pay TV gambling
The Opposition will today challenge Kevin Rudd to walk the walk on gambling by banning pay-TV gambling services, writes Bernard Keane.
Nine launches 2008 schedule — will it stop the slide?
Imitation is always the sincerest form of flattery in commercial TV and Nine CEO, David Gyngell practiced it last night with a vengeance with the launch of the struggling network’s 2008 schedule, writes Glenn Dyer.
US drama and comedy struck down by writers’ protest
Screen writers in the US are striking for residuals, writes Peter Mattessi. They’ve seen the trucks of money being dropped at the studios’ doors for DVD sales, and want some of the action.
Tips and rumours
Rupert Murdoch writes: The Daily Telegraph is sitting on a big story on Kevin Rudd that will make the Scores story seem irrelevant by comparison. The Tele will run with the story this Friday.
My partner doesnt work for the CBA but has seen their annual report to be released tomorrow. It shows a profit of […]
AFL broadcasting deal: modern day fool’s gold?
Despite a loss in revenues from being seen less often on TV, it’s possible money from the TV rights deal has filled any income gap created by a loss in sponsorship from being seen on TV less often.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Seven launches bid for Unwired … Foxtel loses its spinner in chief … Last night’s TV ratings.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Geared up media sector is “fully priced” … More fines handed out for UK competition rorts … Last night’s TV ratings.
Foxtel to run for cash as Hoyts proves a dud
The three shareholders in Foxtel, (Telstra, News and PBL), have decided to start running the urban Pay TV monopoly for cash after the attempt to merge with regional rival, Austar failed.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Too much information … The leaks about Adam Boland’s future keep coming … Julia Zemiro’s talent not being recognised by Nine … ICE TV ices Nine in court … WAN declines PBL’s Hoyts offer … Last night’s TV ratings.
Foxtel: now more profitable than the Nine Network
Here’s something to terrify the beancounters at PBL Media. Foxtel is now more profitable than the struggling Nine Network stations of PBL Media.
The C7 case: The knives are out, unsheathed and sharpened for Kerry Stokes
From the way everyone is gleefully piling in to Kerry Stokes in the wake of his comprehensive defeat in the C7 case, we can conclude that he is no longer regarded as an underdog, and that the mighty media moguls he has antagonised intend to make him feel the cost of his impertinence.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Audience tunes in for Swindle debate … Murdoch’s business channel not coming to Oz … Great Outdoors heading for the chop? … Last night’s TV ratings.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Merrill Lynch predicts big things for Foxtel … Fun in the pun … Border Security reveals Seven’s programming depth … Last night’s TV ratings.
Media briefs and TV ratings
Confidential c-ck up … Cross platform divide proves a bridge too far … Better homes, better ratings … Who killed compulsive viewing? … Footy show chick bumped .. Last night’s TV ratings …
Free broadband? The Australian government won’t let it happen
In the UK, News Corp is launching a free broadband service. But in Australia, the government, in its infinite wisdom,
continues to allow Telstra to dominate Foxtel which means there is no way that it will facilitate Foxtel competing with its BigPond service.
Why can’t we achieve a level of competition similar to that in the UK […]
