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A reminder to all readers, especially those not on the East Coast, RSS feeders and republishing bots:
TV Tonight will be publishing the winner of MasterChef Australia immediately after it has aired on TEN on Sunday night.
This is in keeping with site policy that content aired on Australian television qualifies as news and is no longer a Spoiler. This continues to be the practice for television events such as The Biggest Loser, Australian Idol, Eurovision and Australia’s Next Top Model etc.
This will include the name of the winner in the headline.
Other media, including newspaper websites will also be running the same information at the same time, and therefore this site will not be hiding the news in spoiler alerts.
It is highly likely to be the biggest audience of the TV year and as such warrants feature coverage on this site.
Readers in WA and SA and those who are recording the finale -you have been warned.
Enjoy!
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Hey I may be mistaken but hasnt the result been announced? I found out nearly 10 mins ago on twitter!
LOL David… don’t tell me I know something that you don’t ?
People, it’s a TV news blog, if you’ve taped something then don’t read about it before you watch it. I rarely comment here but Christ some of you need to take a step back and look at what you’re complaining about.
Regardless, go Poh!
Knowfirst, I 110% support everything that you have said. I am sick of reading the rubbish continually posted on here in relation to winners being announced.
To the people winging – More fool you for visiting the site and/or internet until you have watched it is all I have to say.
This site is a huge part of David’s life, and he has earnt a great deal of respect in the industry by doing what he does best, reporting Television at it’s best, not for reporting the results hours later.
No and I don’t wanna until it airs. I got daily embargo info until mid week, then they clamped down.
I have no interest in this show, but do you know who the winner is at the moment, David (yes or no)?
According to today’s Sunday Age and Sunday Telegraph, next year’s finale may be shown live to air in eastern states, so there will be no more problem of the winner being leaked beforehand. Although the warning for people in NT, SA and WA still stands.
Let’s be serious about this decision of David’s to reveal the winner immediately after the announcement.
TV Tonight is a leading TV *News* blog. Shock, horror, gasp…. David wants to keep up the service he is doing, off his own back at considerable time and expense.
This is a news and information site. It’s not spoilertv.com or wewontspoilforeveryoneelse.com
And lastly, it’s David’s site, and if he wants to reveal the winner, as I will be on my site, then he should be bloody-well able to without the whingeing, whining spoilt-brats complaining.
If you don’t want to know until it has screened in your area – stay off the computer, talk to your family members, if you still remember how to, or better yet, go outside and get some fresh air.
I don’t know if it’s true, or been mentioned… but apparently New Idea magazine has accidently revealed the winner of MasterChef already by adverstising their new cover which names the winner… anyone find it to confirm?
To those in other timezones complaining about alleged “spoilers” – the answer is simple – move to NSW or Victoria
Hey this is 10 we are talking about. You can just see it now, in the last ad break before the announcement they will announce roves “live interview with mc winner, person x.” :p
Answered below at 5.51
Oh David, honestly. It’s not about TV vs Movies, it’s about the principle of spoilerage, but I think you already know that.
Look, ultimately, I don’t really care. I usually know these things before anyone else anyway. I just feel sorry for the newbie readers out there who aren’t familiar with your spoiler policy, or didn’t read your previous warning posts – bang – getting the spoiler right in the headline.
Maybe if you explain this, it will all become clear – why do you feel so strongly about putting the name of the person in the headline?
I think the media have been very responsible as the winner is known to quite a few. Lets hope they get there timing right. Although i couldn’t care less about it i would hate to see the shows fans robbed
I’ll be bold… this damn show everyone is talkin about I say 3.6million
“It is highly likely to be the biggest audience of the TV year …”
Who’d have thought 3-4 months ago we would have ever seen that sentence written about MasterChef?? What a massive, amazing story this show has been this year! David, you are right on the money as usual. To sit on the story and miss being able to publish the headline as “Person X is the First MasterChef!” just for the sake of the one or two people who won’t watch this massive event live would be a shame and a journalistic blight..
Who else reckons the show will hit 2.8+ mil viewers?
Hey guys, at least David isn’t revealing it to us before it’s even aired in the east coast (remember the Herald Sun revealing Bob winning The Biggest Loser this year?
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I look forward to you explaining this to all the newspaper websites on Sunday night plus radio stations plus late night news. I’m running a site on TV news not movies, DVDs or mystery books where the butler did it. MasterChef Australia winner is TV news.
And based on your theory, when exactly would it be ok to write the name in the header? Monday morning? Monday night? Old news by then…
I’ve given a heads up on this and I’ve been consistent with the policy across the duration of the blog.
I still really don’t see your rationale regarding ‘spoilers’.
You say once something’s aired, it’s not a spoiler. So with that theory, if someone told you the surprise ending of a movie you really wanted to see, they can say to you, “Well it started at the cinema last Thursday…..it’s not a spoiler!”
Again, it doesn’t harm anyone making the headline of the article, “And the winner of MasterChef is…..” It conveys the contents of the article, it’s a non-spoiler, and people can choose to click through if they want to or not.
lol, I just read through the comments and saw someone else making that suggestion. It’s pretty much established ‘Netiquette’.
Been asked this a few times. TEN splits the show into 2, just to get a higher figure for the final 30 minutes. It will be over 2.5 but the question is how high? It won’t beat Idol 2004 which was 3.35m.
David, how many people do you think will watch the finale?
@dawkins, just checking, pretty sure I was jk
Frankly I welcome tomorrow’s end of MasterChef… Any chance Big Brother will return next year instead?? (jk, sort of)
Anyone west of Broken Hill should stay in a media blackout till the Masterchef GF ends in their timezone. And dontcha love the On-Demand whiners? Perfect world not so perfect now huh? If you don’t want it spoiled, watch it as-programmed. And for the Sunday night workers, any boss who doesn’t let their staff watch it on-the-job is a bum.
@Koverstreet: How long do you expect blogs and websites hold off on revealing winners after they’ve aired so that you don’t get spoiled because you taped it? If you don’t want to know, keep away from the internet, easy.
totally agree but its very courteous of you to warn those that complain. By the time the winner is revealed in the east the show would’ve already begun in the west where fans should be watching. As for those who record it good luck avoiding it before it airs it’ll be on the news in the paper on the radio you’ll hear people talking…. But you’ll still blast David?
Neon / Koverstreet: The news is not “somebody” won MasterChef. the news is “Person X” won MasterChef. The reality is it will be news all over the web at Daily Telegraph, Age, H Sun etc as soon as its over. There’s no reason why a television blog, of all things, should be left to hide major television news. Again it’s not a spoiler once it’s aired. Simple.
@Leon:
What do you mean TEN not caring about WA and SA viewers? This is a Media Thing, not something directly related to the networks.
@mikeys why do you need it earlier, not enough time between now and tomorrow night for you to prepare to not visit this site for a few hours? Really it is a non issue.
Thank you David
Thanks although this warning would have been better posted before previous evictees were revealed. I don’t usually complain about much but I was seriously annoyed when i popped on to this site before i watched the ep (i usually tape it and watch later) only to see Chris had been eliminated. Ugh!! The article should have shown nothing except spoilers inside if you wish to proceed. Sorry but this really got my heckles up!
re: Leon says:
July 18, 2009 at 3:00 pm
It’s nice how Ch10 doesnt care about WA & SA viewers..
Why would it be the fault of Ch10 – Since when have they been managing the Australian time zones ???
No objection to you publishing the winner immediately, but why do you have to put their name in the headline? If you had something like “and the winner of Masterchef is…” and then named them in the body of the story, it wouldn’t stop those of us who record on PVR to watch later from viewing your site at all until afterwards.
However the reminder/warning is appreciated
It’s not good enough!! This warning should’ve been posted earlier. *angry face*
It’s nice how Ch10 doesnt care about WA & SA viewers..
cheers man for that, even though i got blastered last time for complaining and i learnt from that lol.
What odds will you give me David that, even after this warning, someone will still complain that you have revealed the winner before they have seen it?
You’re still bound to get some nark complaining!