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Seven launches new digital channel: 7Mate

Seven launches new digital channel: 7Mate

Tweet Today the Seven Network has revealed it will launch a third digital channel to be called 7Mate on September 25 that will cater to the male demographic. The channel will launch on the high definition service, currently titled 7HD it will move from channel 70 to channel 73 on high definition televisions and set-top-boxes. [...]

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 [...]

Laurie Oakes – “Mark Latham is nothing in every sense”

Laurie Oakes – “Mark Latham is nothing in every sense”

Tweet A fired up Laurie Oakes has hit back at comments make by former Labor leader and now part time 60 Minutes reporter for the Nine Network, Mark Latham. During a cross to the 6pm editions of Nine News last night, Oakes spoke about the events that lead up to the war of words between [...]

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 [...]

Raising funds for Breast Cancer, That’s What I’m Walkin’ About

Raising funds for Breast Cancer, That’s What I’m Walkin’ About

Tweet The AFL Footy Show regular and Brownlow medallist Shane Crawford is gearing up for the challenge of his life when he sets out to run from Adelaide to Melbourne on Father’s Day to raise money for Breast Cancer research. The event called That’s What I’m Walkin’ About, titled from his catch phrase ‘That’s What [...]

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 [...]

New Nine telemovie: Panic At Rock Island

New Nine telemovie: Panic At Rock Island

Tweet The Nine Network has announced the line-up for a new telemovie which has started production in Sudney. Grant Bowler best known as host of Border Security and The Mole as well as his guest appearances in True Blood and Ugly Betty, has returned to Australia to co-star with Vince Colosimo in Panic at Rock [...]

Auditions: The Amazing Race Australia

Auditions: The Amazing Race Australia

Tweet The Seven Network has teamed up with Disney to produce Australia’s first local edition of the Emmy Award winning reality series The Amazing Race. As a part of this agreement, Disney and Seven are collaborating to produce a world-class Australian version of one of the most universally popular reality competition shows ever. “The US [...]

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 [...]

ABC News 24: Pick up your game!

ABC News 24: Pick up your game!

Tweet The ABC’s new 24 hour news channel ABC News 24 is winning a lot of praise for bringing a 24 hour news channel to the free-to-air television platform, including from this site. The launch night went off without a hitch, but since then the channel has had its fair share of small problems behind [...]

Yes We Canberra!: Julie Bishop’s death stare & the Angry Kevin burger

Yes We Canberra!: Julie Bishop’s death stare & the Angry Kevin burger

Tweet The Chaser return to television tonight with their new political satire series Yes We Canberra!, the show will be on air for the duration of the election campaign. Today the ABC has provided a sneak peek at some of the skits we will be seeing on the first episode due to air at 9:45pm. [...]

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 [...]

Charles Firth comes to GO! with satirical news show WTF!

Charles Firth comes to GO! with satirical news show WTF!

Tweet Charles Firth of The Chaser fame is coming to GO! with a brand new show titled WTF! to air later in the year on the Nine Network’s digital channel. Writer and performer Nich Richardson anchors a satirical, pop-culture news show unlike anything seen on Australian television. Joined by a team of good-looking, trusted reporters, [...]

The Chaser exclusive: Disendorsed Liberal candidate David Barker to run as an Independent

The Chaser exclusive: Disendorsed Liberal candidate David Barker to run as an Independent

Tweet In what The Chaser are calling the biggest gaffe made during this election campaign, disendorsed Liberal Party candidate David Barker, has exclusively revealed to The Chaser that he will run as an independent in the seat of Chifley. The gaffe is that Barker told The Chaser rather than a reputable news organisation. Mr Barker is the [...]

Sky News mighty pissed off with ABC News 24

Sky News mighty pissed off with ABC News 24

This hilarious clip has been added to You Tube about the frustrations currently facing Sky News over the launch of ABC News 24

ABC News 24 comes to the iPhone & iPad

ABC News 24 comes to the iPhone & iPad

Tweet Today the ABC has release its anticipated update to the ABC iPhone app that will now include access to 24 hour news channel ABC News 24. The ABC have also released a dedicated election app called Aus Votes, it also features as an access point for live streaming of ABC News 24. The app [...]

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 [...]

Nine’s worm asleep – Seven

Nine’s worm asleep – Seven

Tweet This media release from Seven sums up the message… Now just waiting for Nine to return fire… Tweet

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 [...]

Promo: Junior MasterChef

Promo: Junior MasterChef

Tweet If the 4 million people tuning into the MasterChef finale couldn’t get enough of the show, never fear Junior MasterChef is coming soon to Network Ten. During the finale of MasterChef, Ten provided a sneak peek at what to expect when 50 kids of Australia between the ages of eight and twelve take to [...]

iView makes its way to Bravia televisions

iView makes its way to Bravia televisions

Tweet ABC TV’s catch up television service iView has taken the next step moving away from just the computer screen; from today iView can be viewed on internet-connected televisions from the Sony Bravia range. The broadening of the iView audience comes after a record month for the service, in June iView recorded 2.235 million visits, [...]

Rescue Special Ops series three commissioned

Rescue Special Ops series three commissioned

Tweet The Nine Network has today announced that it will team up with Southern Star Entertainment to produce a third series of drama series Rescue Special Ops, the series will air in 2011. Twenty-two new episodes of the action packed drama series will be filmed in and around Sydney from September. “Rescue Special Ops has [...]