Channel Seven has been winning the ratings war, even up against The Voice, but with its main viewer-winner My Kitchen Rules ending, will it keep its edge?
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Parramatta ‘puppet show’: NRL club chairman in online war
Parramatta Eels chairman Roy Spagnolo is taking on one high-profile supporter in a bitter war over the club’s board. The campaigning from rival tickets last December is still playing out after season kick-off.
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The players are victims in sports drug witch hunt
The deck is stacked against athletes, who damage their bodies and minds irrevocably for the chance to play at the top level for a few years, writes Dr James Connor.
READ MOREGlenn Dyer’s TV ratings: Ten crashes and burns
Now Ten is being beaten by the digital channels, which is downright embarrassing. Ten needs to take a hard look at is programming — and its board.
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Bombshell sports probe: drugs and corruption to ‘disgust’ fans
Sports fans are bracing for the worst as sports and justice chiefs dropped a bombshell today: allegations of the widespread and systematic use of performance-enhancing drugs in Australian sport.
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Media briefs: GF ratings … the Kohler tax … Apple radio? …
One thing is certain from the weekend grand finals for the AFL and NRL: rugby league has a much stronger following in Melbourne than the AFL has in Sydney. Plus, The Australian’s price rise and other media news.
READ MOREGrand final ratings: RL in Melbourne beats AFL in Sydney
Melbourne sports fans like rugby league more than Sydney fans like AFL. That’s what you can take out of TV ratings for the weekend’s two grand finals.
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Age ‘toon backdown … NT News trolls … AFL beats NRL …
In today’s Media Briefs: Age backs down on cartoon scrapping … NT News trolls attack the dead … AFL beats rugby league in TV ratings … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections …
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Media briefs: NRL’s $1b deal … Fairfax journos meet … ConsMedia deal …
In today’s Media Briefs: Nine and Foxtel seal $1.025 billion NRL deal … Press Council: media regulation stories out of bounds. … Fairfax journos down keyboards for stop-work … Front Page of the Day …
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Nine, Foxtel seal $1.025 billion NRL deal
Nine and Foxtel have again won the rights for the next five years to broadcast the NRL (including the State of Origin) for a total of $1.025 billion.
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Faceless man to football’s face? Arbib touted as league boss
The race is on to replace David Gallop as head of the Australian Rugby League Commission, with former federal sports minister Mark Arbib touted as one of the front runners to be rugby league’s new boss.
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Budget may never come for The Oz … Leveson latest … Seven’s NRL bid …
In today’s Media Briefs: Leveson inquiry: government ministers granted core participant status … Seven waits in wings for NRL bid … French journalist Romeo Langlois held by Farc … MasterChef cooks with spam on Twitter and more …
READ MOREShow me the TV money — the time bomb that may sink soccer
If insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result each time, then Frank Lowy must be certifiably bonkers, writes David Salter, veteran journalist and former head of TV sport at the ABC and Channel Seven,
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New online Tele … Rupert visits Wapping … Ten’s NRL bid …
Yesterday, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper “refreshed” its website. Plus other media news of the day …
READ MOREThinking of the kids as the net flattens information hierarchies
Attempts to legislatively address the TV Now “problem” will fail - and the solution is staring rights holders in the face.
READ MOREA simple copyright amendment? Sports chiefs don’t understand
Our copyright law is a wondrous complex beast, and even apparently simple tweaks carry the potential for significant unintended consequences, writes Kimberlee Weatherall, an associate professor in Sydney University’s Faculty of Law.
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The man who gets sport on the telly
if you look at any major sports and TV deal in the last decade-and-a-half, you’ll find sports right agent Ian Frykberg’s fingerprints on it. Tom Cowie profiles the former Murdoch and Packer man.
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SMH turns Japanese … WaPo’s Scalia stuff-up … Daily Mail invented account …
In today’s Media Briefs: SMH sports go Japanese … NewsBeast retracts false quote … Wilkie and Xenophon tackle Nine on pokie remarks and more …
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AFL beats NRL … ‘paedos in speedos’ … wanted: ABC chair …
In today’s Media Briefs: AFL beats NRL in grand final TV ratings … ‘Paedos in Speedos’ — it’s a thing … Portraits into the past … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections …
READ MORELooks to be service as normal, despite Qantas, TWU predictions
There is this morning no sign that anyone flying later today or over this holiday weekend is going to experience anything remotely as serious as the dire predictions that have been made.
READ MORENews Ltd, Clubs and NRL v imaginary AFL anti-pokies campaign
The pokies debate has exploded over the past 24 hours after Clubs NSW used its influence over the NRL to try and impose its campaign against Andrew Wilkie’s reform agenda on the AFL’s grand final week program.
READ MOREFooty codes not on level playing field in pokies fight
How bizarre that the Australian football codes are arguing that the money they take from problem gamblers is essential to their plans to pay enormous salaries to players and administrators, writes Dr Richard Denniss, executive director of The Australia Institute.
READ MOREFooty codes join forces in pokies war
Crikey media wrap: The two dominant footy codes usually war with each other for dominance but they’ve put aside their differences to protest against Independent MP Andrew Wilkie’s pokies reform.
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Game-in-a-Box: Broncos kick sharks out of contention
It was a critical game for both teams, writes Pat Byrne, determining whether Brisbane Broncos could stick with the top four and if the Cronulla Sharks could get back on track and make a run for the finals.
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Origin IV and the law … welcome to Murdochia … Assange in court …
In today’s Media Briefs: Mal, the papers and one little word … Welcome to Murdochia … Julian Assange fronts court with new lawyers to fight deportation order and more …
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