As we alluded to this morning in our ratings report, the Nine Network wouldn’t have been pleased with only 1,290,000 viewers tuning into the premiere of V. Although 1,290,000 isn’t a bad audience share, with the amount of promotion on Nine and in newspapers the network would have expected higher numbers closer to 1,500,000.
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The Nine Network today broadcast the 82nd Academy Awards live in Australia with the network replaying the awards ceremony again at 9:30pm. Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson hosted the coverage for Nine as they did so last year, they were joined live by Richard Wilkins on the red carpet live from Los Angeles.
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Going along to be in the audience of any show provides a unique opportunity to see how things are done behind the camera and also a chance to see how much of what you actually saw goes to air for everyone else to see.
Recently we were present for the taping of the Who Want’s To [...]
Imagine what it would be like in those last awful seconds before a plane crash. Well strap yourself in, you’re about to take that white-knuckle ride. Sharing the final, terrifying moments of Pel-Air jet November Gulf Alpha.
After an extra months holiday due to the Winter Olympic Games screening on the Nine Network, the Queen of television in Australia Kerri-Anne Kennerley returned to her morning show this week, minus the ‘Mornings’ title. With a new look set, new look graphics and new look opener, the very blue dominated show will remind many [...]
Usually on the first Sunday of the ratings year all three of our commercial networks launch an advertising blitz in the News Limited newspapers to advise us shows the networks wish to perform well. With the Olympic Winter Games just about over in Vancouver, the advertising blitz this year was pretty low key at the [...]
60 Minutes returns for its 31st year this Sunday and there really is no excuse not knowing when it is on considering those annoying promos “Sunday 7:30 is 60 Minutes”. Here are the stories for the 2010 series return of 60 Minutes, that’s “Sunday 7:30… is 60 Minutes”. Tick tick tick…
Closing the Net
It’s the new [...]
Top Gear returns to Nine next week as a double episode, from March 9 the hit car show will only screen one episode, but in good news for fans it appears Nine will play the episode unedited. The programme roughly runs for 60 minutes commercial free on the BBC, this presents a problem for Nine [...]
The Nine Network’s Melbourne studios GTV9 have entered a conditional agreement with developer Lend Lease for there sale. Lend Lease has agreed to purchase three hectares of land from General Television Corporation (GTV) with Channel Nine to vacate the site within the next twelve months Lend Lease has told the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).
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In the extremely early hours of the morning Elvina Simpson presented live Nine News coverage of Tiger Woods’ press conference from the United States beginning at 3am Eastern Daylight Time, or 11am local time. Woods was joined by journalists he selected himself and no questions were asked in during which he gave his statement lasting [...]
Well this could be an interesting war of words between the Nine Network and Foxtel, earlier Foxtel issued a statement proclaiming Nine delayed coverage of Torah Bright’s gold medal win and delayed the flower presentation ceremony by five minutes for a Woolworths ad (you can read the release over at TV Tonight).
Now Nine has issued [...]
The clowns on The Footy Show are almost back for another year and to promote their return they have taken some inspiration from Nine’s Olympic Winter Games promo. It wasn’t as if any of them needed an excuse to dress up as women but Billy Brownless and Shane Crawford look like naturals with the promo [...]
Followers of this site will know I personally love a good opener, the best time to see high quality work go into producing one of these openers is when a special event such as the Olympic Games comes around. Of course in this country we don’t place all that much emphasis on the Winter version [...]
One of the most recognised television theme songs in Australia is the cricket theme used on Nine’s Wide World of Sports coverage since the introduction of Kerry Packer’s World Series Cricket. The theme was created in 1974 by a man named Brian Bennett, not intended for Nine’s cricket coverage, just as a theme for anyone [...]
As the face of Nine News in Sydney Peter Overton takes viewers on a behind the scenes look at the new newsroom set being used for Nine’s Early, Morning and Afternoon edition bulletins as well as Nightline and four other bulletins provided for the Qantas international and domestic networks and the online ninemsn newsroom bulletin.
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It seems like we are writing this one up every few months now with the Nine Network launching a brand new set for its national bulletins today. Presented by Wendy Kingston, Nine News’ Morning and Afternoon bulletins have launched the new ratings year with a smart looking set using the newly built TCN Sydney newsroom [...]
The 2010/11 summer of cricket schedule has been announced with a change in the normal format we are used too. This time round cricket coverage will begin on the Nine Network while we are still in official ratings period on October 31 when Australia takes on Sri Lanka in a Twenty/20 match at the WACCA.
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This Saturday’s edition of Nine News Melbourne will be a special one hour presentation live from Kinglake as we mark one year since Australia was hit by its worst natural disaster in history. The programme will feature never before seen footage, provided exclusively to Nine News on the eve of the February 7 anniversary.
Of the [...]
On Wednesday afternoon What’s On The Tube entered the famous ‘Studio 9’ at GTV9 Melbourne for a special recording of Who Want’s To Be A Millionaire: Whizz Kids special. Eddie McGuire returned to hosting the show in its original format for the first time in a number of years where brothers and sisters teamed up [...]
The number one programme in the world Top Gear revs into its new home at the Nine Network with a special two hour premiere event on Tuesday, February 16 at 7:30pm. Featured will be Australian movie star Eric Bana, plus an Olympic Winter Games special just in time for the games which also air on [...]
This Thursday Nine News will present a special devoted to the birth of Melbourne Zoo’s new baby elephant from mother Dokkoon at 7.00pm, titled Dokkoon’s Baby. This special chronicles the pregnancy of Royal Melbourne Zoo’s Asian elephant Dokkoon with Nine News having exclusive access granted to treat audiences to never-before-seen footage including the birth and [...]
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Fiona has had it with Michael and is determined to go back home to Ireland. She's desperate to settle down, well at least as much as a person like her can, and Michael is dead set on getting back into the CIA.
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