Nine is paying about $450,000 an episode to secure the rights to air Top Gear next year and hopefully score itself more male viewers. That’s a lot of money for a network that is $3.8 billion in debt.
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Asylum seekers, Wilson Tuckey and gobbledygook
Crikey readers weigh in on the hysteria over asylum seekers, the prospect of Tamil Tigers being in Australia and climate currency leakage.
SBS News used as vehicle for Top Gear
Why did SBS news include a three-minute story on putting automatic stabilisers into Australian cars? Perhaps because it was just a convenient cross-promo for another SBS show.
Cuts keeping coming across the media
Odd how three separate Australian media companies have settled on the figure of 80% as the size of the cuts in their dividends or distributions to long suffering shareholders, writes Glenn Dyer.
Media briefs: Media briefs: News.com.au months behind on the economy… Hef jnr quits Playboy
News.com.au months behind on the economy… Hef jnr quits Playboy… Tribune files for bankruptcy… Pultizer Prize goes online…
Media briefs: Newsroom backstabbing, Top Gear loses stig
Falloon disengagement begins … Satin safari watch … Less foreign news than ever before! … Top Gear loses its stig … Miley boosts VF sales … Newspaper massacre .. Newsroom backstabbing.
