Category: Other News

Foxtel records $477 million boost in earnings

Foxtel records $477 million boost in earnings

Tweet Subscription TV provider Foxtel have today announced a 17.5% jump in earnings to $477 million (from $406m last year)  for the financial year ending June 30, 2010. The earnings boost is a result of strong consumer uptake in the Foxtel iQ and Foxtel High Definition services. Foxtel’s revenue for the year ended 30 June [...]

Monday Ratings Wrap-up: ACA’s ratings bounce

Monday Ratings Wrap-up: ACA’s ratings bounce

Tweet On Monday, 11 August it was the Seven Network taking out number one honours for the night with a network share of 27.4%. Nine came in a close second with 27.2%, Ten came third on 19.9% and the ABC had a very good night with 19.1%. The top programme for the night was Seven [...]

It’s our birthday: Telling you what’s on THE TUBE for four years

It’s our birthday: Telling you what’s on THE TUBE for four years

Tweet While the Nine Network’s GO! channel celebrates one year of being on the air, today here at THE TUBE we are proud to be celebrating four years on the net. This year has seen a significant change, only a few weeks ago the decision was made to change our name from ‘What’s On The [...]

Julia Gillard & Tony Abbott answer your questions on SKY NEWS

Julia Gillard & Tony Abbott answer your questions on SKY NEWS

Tweet Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott, have agreed to face voters’ questions on Wednesday night in a forum organised by Sydney newspaper The Daily Telegraph which will air exclusively live on SKY NEWS. The two leaders will also feature on the ABC’s Q and A, Gillard on Monday 9 [...]

Wednesday Ratings Wrap-up: Gruen Nation popular again

Wednesday Ratings Wrap-up: Gruen Nation popular again

Tweet (Network shares to come later) The top programme for the night was Seven News managing to attract 1.526 million viewers over the five city metro area. Coming in second was the ABC’s Gruen Nation sill impressing audiences with 1.503 million people tuning in. Coming third for the night was Today Tonight with 1.490 million [...]

Tuesday Ratings Wrap-up: Seven’s Rafters hold up 2 million viewers

Tuesday Ratings Wrap-up: Seven’s Rafters hold up 2 million viewers

Tweet On Tuesday, 3 August it was the Seven Network taking out number one honours for the night with a network share of 33.1% thanks to taking out the top four shows for the night. Coming in second was Nine with 25.3%, rounding out the top three was Ten with a disappointing 20.5%. The top [...]

Monday Ratings Wrap-up: News, News & News

Monday Ratings Wrap-up: News, News & News

Tweet On Monday, 2 August it was the Seven Network taking out number one honours for the night with a network share of 28.4% over the five city metro area. Coming in second place for the night was Nine with a share of 25.6%, and coming in third was Ten with 21.1%. The top programme [...]

Thursday Ratings Wrap-up: A boring night for television

Thursday Ratings Wrap-up: A boring night for television

Tweet On Thursday, 29 July it was the Nine Network taking out number one honours for the night with a network share of 31.1% over the five city metro area. Coming in second position was Seven with 25.8%, followed by Ten on 20.1%. The stand out for the night was GO! with a channel share [...]

Wednesday Ratings Wrap-up: ABC claims top 3 shows

Wednesday Ratings Wrap-up: ABC claims top 3 shows

Tweet On Wednesday, 28 July it was the Nine Network taking out number one honours for the night with a network share of 27.1%. It was a fantastic night for the ABC coming in second position with a network share of 25.6%. Seven nearly beat the ABC to second but could only manage third with [...]

Tuesday Ratings Wrap-up: Packed To The Rafters with 1.9M

Tuesday Ratings Wrap-up: Packed To The Rafters with 1.9M

Tweet On Tuesday, 27 July it was the Seven Network taking out number one honours for the night with a network share of 32.3%. Coming in second position for the night was Nine with a network share of 26.5% with Ten coming in third with 20.6%. The top programme for the night was of Packed [...]

Monday Ratings Wrap-up: Undercover Boss proves popular

Monday Ratings Wrap-up: Undercover Boss proves popular

Tweet On Monday, 26 July it was the Seven Network taking out number one honours for the night with a network share of 27.9%. The Nien Network came in second place with a strong 25.6%, but without the MasterChef jugger-naught, Ten could only muster a 23.2% network share over the five city metro area. The [...]

Sunday Ratings Wrap-up: One word… MasterChef

Sunday Ratings Wrap-up: One word… MasterChef

Tweet On Sunday, 25 July it was the Network Ten taking out number one honours for the night with a network share of 44.3% which absolutely slaughtered the competition. The closest anyone could come to that was Seven on 21.6% followed by Nine on a dismal 19.3%. Even Network Ten’s sports channel One performed well [...]

MasterChef peaks with 5.74 million viewers nationally

MasterChef peaks with 5.74 million viewers nationally

Tweet The thrilling finale of MasterChef series two was always going to draw a big viewing audience, in the final week the cooking show managed to produce an average of more than 2 million viewers each night it was on air, excluding Friday night’s episode. Last night Adam Liaw took out the title of Australia’s [...]

Thursday Ratings Wrap-up: MasterChef records another series high as ABC News 24 launches

Thursday Ratings Wrap-up: MasterChef records another series high as ABC News 24 launches

Tweet (channel and network percentages to come later) The top programme for the night was MasterChef Australia recording another series high audience share yet again of 2,513,000 viewers over the five city metro area. Get those record books out Sunday night! Coming in second place was Seven News with 1,380,000 viewers, third was Today Tonight [...]

ABC, Seven, Nine, Ten & Sky election debate coverage

ABC, Seven, Nine, Ten & Sky election debate coverage

On Sunday 25 July The Leaders Debate will air on four commercial networks and on ABC1 and ABC News 24. Below is your comprehensive guide to what each channel will be offering on the night, what channel will you be watching?

Wednesday Ratings Wrap-up: Hey Hey increases with Kylie and Abbott

Wednesday Ratings Wrap-up: Hey Hey increases with Kylie and Abbott

Tweet On Wednesday, 21 July it was the Network Ten taking out number one honours for the night with a network share of 28.6% with Ten’s channel share beating all of the others network share. It’s simply a case of MasterChef being unstoppable! Nine came in second place with a stronger Hey Hey It’s Saturday [...]

Tuesday Ratings Wrap-up: MasterChef sets new season high

Tuesday Ratings Wrap-up: MasterChef sets new season high

Tweet On Tuesday, 20 July it was the Seven Network taking out number one honours for the night with a network share of 28.3%. Coming in close behind in second place was Ten with a network share of 28.2%, Ten would have won the night if One could manage to pull a larger audience in [...]

Source: Seven Network

Mid year ratings results: What the networks are spinning

Tweet Today the Seven and Nine Networks have released their mid year ratings spin with both networks claiming they were number one in the 2010 ratings for the year to date. Seven claims it is number one in primetime audience share when looking at primary channels, which means ‘Channel 7’ is leading the way. Seven [...]

2.1 million watch Queensland win a record five Origin in a row

2.1 million watch Queensland win a record five Origin in a row

Tweet 2.1 million people have tuned in over the five city metro area to watch Queensland take out its historic fifth State of Origin series in a row against a battered a bruised New South Wales side. The majority of viewers tuned in from Sydney with 946,000 and Brisbane with 849,000. The match attracted a [...]

More than 2 million watch Australia at the World Cup

More than 2 million watch Australia at the World Cup

Tweet Luckily it was a public holiday on Monday (except WA) as more than 2 million Australian’s stayed up or set the alarm for 4:30am to watch the devastating performance of Australia against Germany. 1.4 million viewers in the five city metro area tuned in with SBS ONE having a 90% audience share at that [...]

VIDEO: TV1 launches new on air look

VIDEO: TV1 launches new on air look

Tweet As reported yesterday, Foxtel channel TV1 today introduced a brand new look for its on air presentation which was created by zspace. Below the good people at zspace have provided us with some videos to share which include the TV1 ident as well as the intros for Comedy and Crime programmes as well as [...]

TV1′s new colourful look starts June 1

TV1′s new colourful look starts June 1

Tweet From tomorrow (June 1) Foxtel channel TV1 will have a brand new and very colourful on air look which will introduce and incorporate five mini brands to the channel which are Generic, Comedy, Crime, Afternoons and Groovy Movie. Each of the mini category brands have been created in an effort to give each one [...]

Fox Sports 3D studio at the MCG ready to go on air

Behind the scenes of Australia’s first 3DTV broadcasts

Tweet 3DTV is all the rage at the moment and it’s not often that we get to hear from the people who work behind the scenes during special telecasts like the ones occurring at the moment in 3D. An organisation called ‘zspace’ is responsible for providing all of the 3D graphics you saw during the [...]

Foxtel to launch on Xbox Live

Foxtel to launch on Xbox Live

Tweet Foxtel and Microsoft have today announced that Australians will soon be able to watch Foxtel through their Xbox 360 using the Xbox Live service. Channels to be included will be FOX Sports, Discovery, Nickelodeon, Disney, MTV, and other leading channels via their Xbox 360 entertainment console. The new service will also allow for Video-on-Demand [...]

This week on 60 Minutes, Sunday 09 May, 2010

This week on 60 Minutes, Sunday 09 May, 2010

Tweet The Virus Hunters It’s that time of year again. The flu season used to mean household variety snuffles and sore throats. But nowadays, catch the wrong strain and you could end up in hospital or worse. Last year it was swine flu, we picked that one up from pigs. And, as Liam Bartlett discovered, [...]

52nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards (2010)

52nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards (2010)

Tweet Welcome to television’s night of nights, the 2010 Annual TV Week Logie Awards coming from the Crown Entertainment complex in Melbourne for the 52nd staging of the awards. Tonight Bert Newton makes his return to hosting the event, without a doubt the most recognised Australian TV icon to host the awards. Here on What’s [...]

Al Jazeera English comes to TVS

Al Jazeera English comes to TVS

Tweet Sydney viewers will be able to now watch the Al Jazeera English news bulletin every weeknight at 10:00pm on Sydney community television channel TVS, broadcasts will come from the Al Jazeera Doha news centre, one of the network’s four global hubs. “As a former journalist, I’ve always recognised the value of multiple viewpoints,” said [...]

TVS CEO resigns

TVS CEO resigns

Tweet The Chief Executive Officer of Sydney community TV channel TVS has today announced he will step down from the position at the end of April. Laurie Patton steps down after recently having overseen the station’s recent transition to digital broadcasting in Sydney on channel 44. As Secretary of the Australian Community Television Alliance, Patton [...]