Tomorrow Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott will debate the topic of Australia’s new healthcare reforms at the National Press Club in Canberra. Every week the National Press Club address is televised live on ABC1 at 12:30pm but the first of a promised three debates will also air on the Nine and Ten Network’s.
Ten’s coverage will [...]
The Nine Network continued its winning streak on Wednesday taking out the night with a comfortable 31.2% share over the Seven Network’s 28.6% share. Network Ten is still in a lot of trouble not even able to manage to crack the 20% mark for the night, and traditionally the strongest night for the ABC only [...]
He is up there with some of the greatest newsreaders in the country, he certainly is one of the best going around at the present time and he is a favourite of What’s On The Tube.
It was the most exciting night on the Canberra cultural calendar tonight with Wayne Swan taking centre stage delivering his second budget for the Rudd Government which brought mostly bad news to Australians due to the economic slowdown and pending recession. While it is the one time of the year Canberra comes alive it was [...]
“I don’t even listen to that, why would I bother?” Said Gretel Killeen in response to today’s attacks on the way she presented the 2009 Logie Awards. While the media itself can be pretty harsh, most of the entertainment for the night came not from watching the official telecast but from her peers in the [...]
It appears that those rumours of a Ten News shake up are true with the network’s flagship bulletin expected to extend to 90 minutes long. Ten News will still begin at its usual time of 5:00pm but will now end at 6:30pm going head to head with the Seven and Nine Network’s to try and [...]
The first week is over in the battle of the 5:30 ratings tug of war against the proven performer Deal or No Deal and new comer to the block, the Nine Network’s Millionaire: Hot Seat a shorter faster version of the hit quiz Who Want’s To Be A Millionaire. Nine has lost a significant share [...]
Back in July last year What’s On The Tube took a look at the two battling news services shown at 6pm in Melbourne with a break down report by report and a rough look at the time spent of stories. The results revealed that while Nine News produced more stories on average, Seven News spent [...]
After a marathon year of US political nominations, speeches, debates and elections it was finally time to inaugurate the 44th president of the United States Barrack Obama. There was no chance at missing this historic occasion even if we are on the other side of the globe with blanket coverage over four of our free [...]
Ron Wilson is gaining support in Sydney from fans outraged at his removal from Network Ten’s Sydney bulletin, from next year Wilson will be replaced by Bill Woods with Wilson taking up the news reading duties of Woods at 6am. 105.9 StarFM has started a Facebook campaign to reinstate the veteran news reader who has [...]
From Freeway’s to Motorway’s and exit numbers, Safeway to Woolworths, daylight savings to normal time, there are many small differences when coming from Victoria to Queensland and this is no exception when it comes to television transmission especially in the Gold Coast area. With Queensland’s Gold Coast being so close to the New South Wales [...]
With the terrible events happening over in India at the moment particularly in the Indian city of Mumbai, tonight was a good opportunity to assess how out networks covered these events. A lot of emphasis in our news bulletins these days is on the domestic or local front with international stories pushed to the end [...]
Today the most anticipated election in United States history was brought right into the living rooms of all Australians, even though most people will be out and about at work that didn’t stop our two major television networks from bringing us all the latest news as it happened direct from the United States.
Below in this [...]
For the first time since being elected as Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd addressed the nation tonight at 6:30 breaking into usual programming. It was on the back of today’s announcement that the government will spend over 10 billion dollars accounting for almost half of the budget surplus in order to stimulate the economy.
Pensioners, [...]
This years most anticipated event began tonight, the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, they were televised live around Australia on the Seven Network with coverage getting underway at 9:50pm Australian Eastern Standard Time. At 10:00pm (08:00pm Beijing time) the show will begin from the Beijing National Stadium, with a countdown no one [...]
Last night’s edition of the AFL Footy Show is once again under the microscope after Sam Newman made some of his now famous comments towards another woman. This time the comment was directed to the Tasmanian Minister for Tourism Paula Wriedt after she talked in a pre-recorded interview about how the Tasmanian Government secured a [...]
By now every man and his dog would know that today footage was taken of a rehearsal showcasing the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games by a South Korean television network called SBS. So in case you haven’t seen it I have taken this opportunity to upload three videos from three of our network’s [...]
As shown before Ten News had an overhaul tonight with a new theme jingle and new on screen graphics, but as you would have seen on What’s On The Tube the Melbourne set had a make over a few weeks ago, but tonight it was Sydney’s bulletin that had a fresh new look.
The Sydney set [...]
Just weeks after Melbourne’s Ten News received a brand spanking new set, the 5 o’clock news service has undergone a graphics facelift and has been given new theme music using the same song but in a more classical bell chiming way, the bulletin has also been re-titled from Ten News to Ten News At Five, [...]
Tonight for the first time in five years Network Ten’s Melbourne news bulletin received a brand new news set. In addition to the new set the sport’s desk has been moved to the opposite end for something a little different.
Comparing the old with the new it is a vast improvement with the old set very [...]
Ten News Melbourne presenter Helen Kapalos ditched her news desk this afternoon to help out a charity at Myer’s flagship Bourke Street Mall store by letting artist Anthony Breslin and weather man Mike Larkin paint her.
Normally where Myer present’s its famous Christmas windows display; Kapalos had to stand still for about 30 minutes while the [...]
