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	<title>Crikey &#187; pay tv</title>
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		<title>Looming GE-Comcast deal may out-flank Murdoch</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/looming-ge-comcast-deal-may-out-flank-murdoch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/looming-ge-comcast-deal-may-out-flank-murdoch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Comcast]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While he has been obsessing about the internet and free content, Rupert Murdoch may be about to be out-flanked by the looming deal between General Electric and Comcast over NBC.
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		<title>Pay TV prime-time continues to plummet</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/last-nights-tv-ratings-132/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/last-nights-tv-ratings-132/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Glenn Dyer's TV Ratings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pay TV lost more prime time audience last week, with a 10% drop in its prime time 6pm to 10.30pm audience in the 16-to-54 age groups -- the most important demographics. The week before it was down 15%.]]></description>
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		<title>Pay TV&#8217;s biggest nightmare is GO</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/pay-tvs-biggest-nightmare-is-go/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/pay-tvs-biggest-nightmare-is-go/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian pay tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Channel GO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foxtel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nine Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nine Network's new channel GO last night hit a unique milestone: it equalled the share of SBS's main analogue channel. Was it just because last night didn't have any high profile sports events? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sports, TV and anti-siphoning laws: tripe for the picking</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/sports-tv-and-anti-siphoning-laws-tripe-for-the-picking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/sports-tv-and-anti-siphoning-laws-tripe-for-the-picking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-siphoning laws]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian Subscription Radio and Television Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foxtel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free tv australia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Premier Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Major sporting organisations claim that anti-siphoning laws are bad for viewers, Foxtel argue it would be bad for sporting codes to have their sports shown to as many people as possible, and Rupert Murdoch is threatening to force his US cable rivals to pay him for carrying his Fox TV network.]]></description>
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		<title>How Telstra split opens up Foxtel ownership</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/conroys-foxtel-call-stokes-a-mogul-cage-match/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/conroys-foxtel-call-stokes-a-mogul-cage-match/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Thomson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consolidated Media Holdings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Packer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kerry Stokes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media moguls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Telstra split]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement that Telstra must separate its retail and wholesale division -- including a sell-off of its 50% Foxtel stake -- should make Consolidated Media a prime takeover target. Let the media mogul battle begin.]]></description>
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		<title>News Corp brings out the knife for Star TV</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/new-corp-brings-out-the-knife-for-star-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/15/new-corp-brings-out-the-knife-for-star-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News Corp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Satellite Pay TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News Corp's cost cutting and job shedding continues, with the US head office planning to put the cleaners through the Star Satellite Pay TV business spanning Asia.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hypocrisy watch: Foxtel lectures Free to Air TV on competition</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/hypocrisy-watch-foxtel-lectures-free-to-air-tv-on-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/17/hypocrisy-watch-foxtel-lectures-free-to-air-tv-on-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV & Radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foxtel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Broadband Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Foxtel CEO Kim Williams spoke yesterday about the need for greater competition in TV. Perhaps the problem is more that he's just about to get some.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Austar execs get cashed up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/austar-execs-get-cashed-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/25/austar-execs-get-cashed-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[austar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shares]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Austar believe so much in the company that now the shares have weakened, they are making the first in a controversial long term incentive program next Tuesday in cash, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Telstra&#8217;s year zero Foxtel fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/26/telstras-year-zero-foxtel-fiction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/26/telstras-year-zero-foxtel-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[austar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foxtel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pbl media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telstra's claim that Foxtel is worth nothing in its books is surprising given its status as the country's number one Pay TV business, writes <b>Glenn Dyer</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pay v. public: the battle for relevance in broadcasting</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/27/pay-v-public-the-battle-for-relevance-in-broadcasting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/27/pay-v-public-the-battle-for-relevance-in-broadcasting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SBS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The pay television sector has made a comprehensive and pointed challenge to the ABC and SBS and their claims on the public purse, writes <b>Margaret Simons</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Foxtel outfoxes the ABC &#8212; again</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/19/foxtel-outfoxes-the-abc-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/19/foxtel-outfoxes-the-abc-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foxtel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Foxtel has again dealt a devastating blow to the major core competence of the ABC, News and Public Affairs, writes <b>Peter Cox</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mark Scott, Pay TV and Rudd&#8217;s public affairs channel</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/15/mark-scott-pay-tv-and-rudds-public-affairs-channel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/15/mark-scott-pay-tv-and-rudds-public-affairs-channel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[television]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It must be grim to watch the PM give the opposition a hand when they pinch your best ideas, writes <b>Margaret Simons</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stephen Conroy hearts Free-TV</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/stephen-conroy-hearts-free-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/04/stephen-conroy-hearts-free-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital broadcasts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital television channel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy is shaping up as the biggest friend of the free-to-air networks in ages – and given the track record of both sides of politics, that is saying something, writes <b>Bernard Keane</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Digging a little deeper into Austar&#8217;s profit results</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/30/digging-a-little-deeper-into-austars-profit-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/07/30/digging-a-little-deeper-into-austars-profit-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[austar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay tv]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Glenn Dyer</b> translates the words and numbers in Austar's profit results with surprising results.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Commercial Free-to-air TV in free fall?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/16/commercial-free-to-air-tv-in-free-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/07/16/commercial-free-to-air-tv-in-free-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Packer’s decision to cash in his chips at Channel Nine is looking like a better bet with every day. 

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