All the highs and lows of last night’s free-to-air viewing.
TV
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 […]
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.
Digging a little deeper into Austar’s profit results
Glenn Dyer translates the words and numbers in Austar’s profit results with surprising results.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
