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Last night’s TV ratings

All the highs and lows of last night’s free-to-air viewing.

Last night’s TV ratings

The Winners: 60 Minutes was tops with 1.751 million, followed by Seven News with 1.606 million and Nine News third with 1.476 million. Seven’s Battle of The Choirs ended strongly at 7.30pm with 1.377 million and Nine returned Animal Emergency at 6.30pm with 1.348 million. Foyle’s War at 8.30pm on the ABC averaged 1.215 million […]

Media briefs

Vale Sunday, no one watched. Even for its last program, Sunday was basically ignored by viewers, as they have been doing for the past three years or so. Sunday was watched by 158,000 people yesterday morning, Insiders on the ABC at 9am averaged 173,000, Inside Business, 148,000, Offsiders, 130,000, But Weekend Sunrise at 8am won […]

Last night’s TV ratings

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

Why US08 isn’t West Wing the Sequel

This article is a short look at West Wing parallels that almost certainly won’t occur in the last few months of the Presidential campaign

Media briefs: Batman v Dubya, Sunset for Mel Doyle?

Why Dubya is Batman by Andrew Klavan and Andrew Bolt … Daily Telegraph photo madness … Chinese not happy Jun.

Gruen Transfer: Why the ABC loves ads

Why it took a public broadcaster to produce TV’s best show about ads. Glenn Dyer weighs in.

Last night’s TV ratings

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

Digging a little deeper into Austar’s profit results

Glenn Dyer translates the words and numbers in Austar’s profit results with surprising results.

Last night’s TV ratings

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

Media briefs

Selling Southern Star not straight forward … Hammer the message … Do you hear a reporter clapping? … Even lamer than Second Life … Mr T Snickers ad pulled for being offensive to gay people.

Last night’s TV ratings

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

Media briefs: is Southern Star for sale, News of the World fights on

Southern Star for sale? … Q&A goes for carbon … When a court hands you lemons, turn them into lemonade.

Last night’s TV ratings

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

ABC leads the pack as commercials abandon the news

With Friday’s axing of Sunday and Nightline by the Nine Network, the three commercial TV Networks have all but abandoned serious news and current affairs to the ABC and SBS.

Last night’s TV ratings

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

Tips and rumours

Big W delivered a very, very large broadsheet sized glossy catalogue to my home on Wednesday, heavily promoting a 42” Sanyo plasma TV for $794. On arrival at the store yesterday morning at 9am, on the first day of the sale, I was told by a smiling shop assistant that all of the TVs had sold out […]

Last night’s TV ratings

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

Media briefs: Tele entendre, NY Times decline, grappling with Grazia

Putting their best entendre forward: Esquire’s flashing cover. To commemorate its 75th anniversary, the October issue of Esquire will feature a flexible electronic “paper” cover that allows words and images to scroll across it — a first for magazines, according to parent company Hearst.  — Foliomag New York Times profit falls as ad sales drop. New York Times Co., […]

Media briefs: Eddie tell-all boned, journalism by McDonald’s

Reality TV has dirtiest carbon footprint … Boned! … Journalism, now brought to you by McDonald’s.

TV ad slump is just the beginning…

In comments yesterday Nine said it was confident of rebuilding its ad share to match its ratings share, while Seven said it would retain its share. But they might struggle, writes Glenn Dyer.

Last night’s TV ratings

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

Victorian transport users the victims of AWFUL ad campaigns

Victorian motorists and public transport users are the targets for obscure, patronising and occasionally downright creepy advertising, writes Stephen Downes.

TV ad sales suffering, especially in Sydney

Growth in TV advertising revenue has slowed considerably on last year’s numbers, writes Glenn Dyer.

Last night’s TV ratings

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