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Articles from March, 2007
Foxy ladies go to SevenKath & Kim are moving to commercial TV after selling their new series to Channel 7 for $3 million.
The deal ends months of rival networks battling to woo the Fountain Lakes “foxy morons” from the ABC.
Seven was not the highest bidder, but was chosen because the comedy duo wanted the biggest viewing audience.
The series, to be [...]
Radio veteran John Laws has admitted that he may consider an offer to a payout and to terminate his contract early.
Laws, whose career spans 54 years and up until recent years was still a dominant force in Sydney morning radio, has stated that he has no intention to retire but if an offer was forthcoming [...]
The Australian reports that in the wake of the government’s decision to make the new media ownership laws effective as early as next week, a lot of wheeling and dealing is going on within Australia’s media empires, and it’s not all pretty.
The biggest fight seems to be for Perth’s STW9 with regional operator WIN Corporation [...]
The battle for Channel Nine Perth has taken another turn, with The Age reporting that WIN Corporation, owner of a 48.34% stake in STW-9’s parent company Sunraysia Television, making a $146.2 million dollars offer for the station, trumping PBL Media’s earlier bid of $136.4 million dollars.
After major wrangling and a court case blocking a vote [...]
Communications Minister Senator Helen Coonan has taken everyone in the media industry by surprise by announcing that current ownership restrictions would be scrapped next week, two months earlier than expected.
New laws which allow for foreign and cross-media takeovers come into effect next Wednesday, with the effect of a new swag of billion-dollar deals, with the [...]
SydCon reports today that Sarah Murdoch has re-signed with Nine for future projects, staving off a bid by Seven.
The battle for control of Perth’s Nine Network affiliate is starting to get ugly after a meeting of shareholders called to approve the sale of STW-9 Perth to PBL Media was adjourned following a challenge from Sunraysia Television directors against a legal representative linked to rival bidder WIN Corporation.
The Sydney Morning Herald said that while [...]
As the Ten Network reveals a downturn in earnings for the first half of the year, a likely bidder for the company has emerged in the past week.
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that New York private equity firm Blackstone Group met with Ten’s major shareholder CanWest Global Communications in the past week, as the [...]
Regional radio operators have lost their battle to have proposed changes to local content requirements overthrown, as the new local content rules, created as part of the Howard Government’s media reforms, take effect from this Sunday.
The new rules, which will form part of the conditions of regional radio licenses, were strongly opposed by the industry, [...]
AÂ fourth commercial television network, banning analog-only TV sets and the introduction of a new national interest test for media takeovers.
All these changes to television media are being considered by the Labor government, if it wins the next Federal Election.
This comes after it also announced its multi-billion dollar Broadband investment, of which most of the funds [...]
After a less than promising half year profits for this financial year, Ten is looking forward to a better second half in the advertising market.
It recorded a 12 per cent drop in first half profits.
According to The Australian, Ten is looking forward to its new CBS Paramount and Fox Studios output deals.
Full article at The [...]
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has extended the trial of datacasting TV services in Sydney until the allocation of the proposed new “channel A” television licence is completed.
The datacasting trial is conducted by Broadcast Australia in Sydney on UHF channel 35, airing as Digital Forty Four and has been extended following popular support [...]
Foxtel presenter Antonia Kidman has given birth to her fourth child in Sydney today - the same day she was nominated for two ASTRA awards.
Kidman gave birth to daughter Sybella - and was nominated for the awards for her work on From Here To Maternity, a program about pregnancy. She has been nominated for favourite [...]
The Age reports that the Ten Network is confident of its competitive position amid signs that the advertising market is on the rise, and a potential sale of the network.
Ten has reported total revenue of $491 million in the six months to 28 February 2007, an increase of 5.9 per cent. However the first half [...]
Foxtel has successfully sued West Australian technology business Mod Shop in the Federal Court of Australia for allegedly dealing in equipment, software and information to assist consumers pirate the Foxtel signal. It was granted over $1m in damages today.
Justice Antony Siopis today ruled the Mod Shop activities were illegal and awarded Foxtel damages of over [...]