In a series of interviews for Ten News AFL CEO Andrew Demetriou on Friday night spoke about the future of the AFL broadcasting rights deal which will dominate sporting news in Australia this year. The rights to broadcast AFL matches will commence from 2012 and are estimated to fetch a record breaking $1 billion as [...]
Fruit and vegies are supposed to be the healthy option. But what if we were to tell you that Australia’s fruit and vegetables are sprayed with chemicals that are considered so dangerous they’re banned around the world? Liz Hayes spent a hellish few weeks, witnessing the effects of these poisons in other countries.
SBS has today announced it has extended its Tour de France contract with the owners and organisers, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), securing the event on free-to-air television until 2017. In addition to having the exclusive live Australian television broadcast rights, SBS has also secured an extended contract that includes online and mobile delivery, until 2017.
“2010 [...]
Footy Classified returns to the Nine Network in Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania for another year with hosts Garry Lyon and Craig Hutchison along with regulars from The Age Caroline Wilson and former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas.
This year the panel will be stabilised, in the three years on air Footy Classified has [...]
It was a shocking night for the Nine Network’s new drama series V with a huge drop in audience from last weeks premiere sending a clear message to Nine. 1,290,000 viewers tuned in to watch the first episode of the new series however only 1,026,000 watched the show last night providing Nine with a woeful [...]
TV legend Bert Newton will return at long last to host the 2010 TV Week Logie Awards from Melbourne’s Crown Casino complex to be broadcast on the Nine Network. Today Show hosts Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson as well as Leila McKinnon will present the 2010 Logies Red Carpet special.
On his appointment as host Newton [...]
One of the hot topics for this years AFL season in addition to the 2011 start for the new Gold Coast team and the 2012 start fro the Greater Western Sydney team will be the new broadcasting agreement to be negotiated between the three free-to-air networks and Foxtel.
The last AFL broadcast rights deal fetched a [...]
The Seven Network has just issued an amendment which includes the networks new show The Bounce hosted by Peter Helliar for Wednesday night’s at 7:30pm for Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
It’s a whole new line-up for GO! on Tuesday night, The Inbetweeners will premiere at 9:30, but before that at 9:00pm is a new comedy series from NBC called Community. Community is all centred around Jeff Winger, a fast-talking lawyer whose degree has been revoked after the discovery that he acquired it from a university [...]
GO! will premiere a brand new British sitcom call The Inbetweeners from Tuesday March 23 which is about four teenagers growing up in middle-class British suburbia and a world of futile crushes, getting drunk, fancying the girl next door, casting aspersions on your friend’s sexuality, and perving at your mate’s mum.
Will has had an unfortunate [...]
Here’s a question for you. Which country has the world’s most tigers? India? Indonesia? Not even close. Try America. Yes, America. Now, these tigers aren’t roaming the wilds of the mid west and they’re not even in zoos. No, these are household pets.
Network Ten’s factual series Bondi Rescue was one of the networks best performing shows back when it started in 2006, now into its fifth series it also had a spin off series Bondi Rescue: Bali. Now online surf clothing retailer SurfStitch has obtained the exclusive rights to sell official Bondi Rescue clothing for those who [...]
Following the news that Nine will screen the premiere episode of V again on Sunday afternoon, news has just filtered through from Nine that they will also screen an encore viewing of the season premiere of Survivor: Heroes vs Villains on Sunday afternoon also.
Nine will screen both of the episodes which aired on Tuesday night; [...]
Tuesday night was a closer night than Monday with impressive gains made by Network Ten, however victory on Tuesday night went to the Seven Network with an overall combined audience share of 30.4% to Nine’s 27.0% and Ten’s 22.2%. If we look back at last year Tuesday was dominated by Seven every week and Nine [...]
Soon our community TV channels in the main capital cities will go digital, TVS in Sydney has already commenced test transmissions of channel 44 with an official launch date of March 1, 2010. However Channel 31 or C31 as it is known on air claim that despite Federal Government funding to go digital, it is [...]
5th September 2006
It was another close battle between the Seven and Nine Networks, but it was Nine with a marginal victory on Monday night with an overall audience share of 31.0% to Seven’s 30.5%. It was an absolutely shocking night for Network Ten, the networks combined total for the night was 15.6% with ABC1 alone [...]
The Seven Network has announced that its new cooking series My Kitchen Rules will return for a second series, and Seven are looking for contestants to represent their state. You can become part of the show if you and a partner, friend, workmate or relative have got what it takes in the kitchen, head to [...]
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.
As a [...]
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.
The Today Show [...]
Although one of the most recognisable comedy duos are no strangers to Network Ten making regular appearances on the 7PM Project and last year on Rove, Hamish & Andy have signed a deal with Network Ten to produces an unspecified amount of specials for the network.
The deal comes after the success of Hamish and Andy’s [...]
Sunday night was a close one but it was the Seven Network who took out the top honour winning the night with an overall combined share of 30.5% to the Nine Network’s 30.1%. On individual channel shares Seven beat Nine comfortably however with an impressive 4% share for GO! Nine almost took the night away [...]
