Television


Mark Scott, Pay TV and Rudd’s public affairs channel

It must be grim to watch the PM give the opposition a hand when they pinch your best ideas, writes Margaret Simons.

The National Party: who are they and when are they leaving?

A Crikey Explicator:

Last night’s TV ratings

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

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

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

Media briefs: The lowdown at The Age… Political Cartoonists fall flat on Obama…

The lowdown at The Age… Political Cartoonists fall flat on Obama… Why McCain is getting hosed in the press…

Media briefs: Aks your newsagent… Radar dies… Seven wins again…

Aks your newsagent… Radar dies… Seven wins again… Barack Obama’s excellent command of the English language… depressed astronauts get high-tech comfort…

Last night’s TV ratings

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

Media briefs: Spam bust … Community radio listenership explodes

Community radio listeners on the up … Canberra Times not for sale … Journalists Should Follow President Bush’s Example … Victim blaming or same old scare tactics? … Citizen Media Leaders: The Journalist With a Business Edge … World’s largest spam bust linked to Australia

Media briefs: Brendan Nelson v Jeff Fenech? … Paper is so last year

Brendan Nelson v Jeff Fenech? … Paper is so last year … The curious case of the vanishing newspaper … Did PBS duck the torture issue? … Tony the Tiger pops up on the web

Back to the 50s: The Age and subliminal advertising

Why should there be a sanction against “subliminal advertising” when all the evidence shows it either doesn’t exist or doesn’t work and isn’t a threat, asks Dr Stephen Downes

Last night’s TV ratings

Winner and losers from last night’s TV ratings.

Media briefs: Mathew White to head up TT… Dalek more popular than Diana…

NY Sun shuts down … Mathew White to head up TT… Dalek more popular than Diana… Journos actually make Palin look better than she is… How Google News works…

Last night’s TV ratings

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

Gordon Ramsay boned, stuffed and served in a red wine reduction

Nine’s boss, David Gyngell has ‘boned’ Gordon Ramsay after just the first program in the new series, writes Glenn Dyer.

Last night’s TV ratings

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

Media briefs: Packed to the Rafters punches through, Fairfax cut # 307

Packed to the Rafters punches… Censorship Bendigo style… ABC gets free publicity… Twitter proves it’s worth

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…

And the unWankley Award goes to … Australian TV news

Sometimes it’s important to give encouragement. So this week we’d like to give a supersized unWankley Award, writes Jane Nethercote

Death of BB marks an end to cruel, crude reality TV

Ten’s core audiences — the 16 to 39 and 18 to 49 viewers — have finally said ‘not interested any more’ in the once golden Big Brother franchise, writes Glenn Dyer.

That was the week that was…

In news just in: A filmmaker touring the country compiling a documentary on attractive young women’s body-image issues has got to be kidding…

The Daily Verdict: Day 28 and signs of a better day coming

There was an encouraging sign for two for the Government’s campaign team in the newspaper and radio coverage this morning. The carefully planted previews of the announcements to be made by John Howard in his policy speech were featured prominently, writes Richard Farmer.

The Daily Verdict: Day 22 & is it the lull before the storm?

The old pro might not have the best of cards in his hand but he keeps playing them well. John Howard had another fair day on the campaign trail yesterday as he manfully tries to prepare us all for what all the pundits say the Reserve Bank has in store.