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ABC News Breakfast not out to rival Sky
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott has again fended off criticism of plans for a 24 hour news channel in a speech at the Melbourne Press Club yesterday.
Scott drew comparisons with Sky News and the introduction of ABC News Breakfast on ABC2.
“As I have said in all my time at the ABC – and before that – I admire the achievements of Sky. ABC News Breakfast was created not to drive Sky News out – if that happens, nobody wins. But we have added to audience choices if they have pay TV …
Airdate: Inside the Firestorm
To commemorate the first anniversary of ‘Black Saturday’, ABC1 will screen the documentary, Inside the Firestorm this Sunday, February 7 at 8.30pm.
Using Country Fire Authority footage, eyewitness accounts, 774 ABC Melbourne radio reports, photos and amateur footage, this documentary shows how monster fires, exacerbated by hurricane-force winds, destroyed everything in their path.
It shows the 24 hours through the eyes of witnesses caught inside the firestorm with heart-breaking stories – some of miraculous survival, others of devastating loss of loved ones and property by the bushfires described by one eyewitnesses as a …
TV Tonight Awards 2009: The year of Shaun Micallef
The votes are in.
Readers have spoken on their best and worst television for 2009 in the third annual TV Tonight Awards.
The winners: Shaun Micallef, MasterChef and Packed to the Rafters.
Over 1000 surveys were completed this year, and there were some definite trends. Some choices were clear decisions, others were tight races.
Several “winners” were also “losers” elsewhere, showing a divided audience, and a number of populist shows proved their mettle by staying ahead of underdogs.
Shaun Micallef won both Favourite Male and Most Underrated Performer, while Talkin’ ‘Bout Your …
Lib Leadership battle on ABC
If you’re interested in Aussie politics, ABC is the place to be tomorrow morning.
6-9am (AEDT) On ABC2 – News Breakfast special edition
Insider’s presenter Barrie Cassidy is in Canberra and joins the ABC News Breakfast team for full coverage as Liberal MPs arrive at Parliament House for the leadership vote.
9am (AEDT)
On ABC1 – ABC News Special: Liberal Leadership Challenge
For the best live television coverage and analysis of the Liberal Leadership challenge, Barrie Cassidy will host this ABC News Special from Parliament House from 9am (AEDT).
He’ll be joined by ABC Online’s new Chief …
Yes Virginia, there is a vision switcher
ABC News Breakfast co-host Virginia Trioli has had to apologise to Senator Barnaby Joyce, and viewers, after being caught on camera making a gesture she thought was off-camera.
When the camera cut from a clip of Joyce back to Trioli she could be seen twirling her finger and pulling a face that implied the Senator was loopy.
Trioli, told The Australian, “Yes, it was off-air and an uncharacteristically frustrated moment from me, and the Senator was very gracious in accepting my apology. Lesson learned.”
Senator Joyce also commented, “Maybe I …
ABC News Breakfast: “We send you off smarter”
Since November last year there’s been more than one, or even two ways to start your day. ABC2 has been broadcasting ABC News Breakfast since the US election week, providing a serious alternative to Sunrise and Today.
Being on a digital channel it can’t compete head to head with the commercial kingpins, but it is attracting growing respect.
Broadcasting from Melbourne each weekday from 6am to 9am, the show offers news, comment, interviews and analysis for those who are dissatisfied with the light entertainment approaches by Nine and Seven.
TV …
Today pips Sunrise
Thursday was a good day for the Today show which had a rare win over Sunrise.
Nine’s show took 347,000, just edging ahead of Seven’s on 340,000.
While Sydney preferred Sunrise, Melbourne went to Today (by a significant margin) as did Brissy. Adelaide and Perth stuck with Seven.
Just 24 hours earlier it was a different story: Sunrise had 391,000 while Today had 288,000. On most days, Seven’s show averages around 70,000 ahead of its rival, but Nine continues to gain ground, including on Sundays.
The brekkie war continues to be …
Peter Lloyd to be released from Changi
Former ABC foreign correspondent Peter Lloyd is expected to be released from Singapore’s Changi prison today, reports the ABC. A source close to Lloyd says his sentence was reduced due to good behaviour.
Last December he was sentenced to 10 months in prison for possessing the drug ‘ice’ and drug paraphernalia. He admitted using the drugs after covering traumatic events such as the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami for the ABC.
Lloyd was originally due to co-host ABC News Breakfast for ABC2, but was replaced after the Singapore arrest.
No doubt …
Do it yourself TV
YouTube allows for cheeky editorialising by its users, modifying vision with text.
Here’s Senator Nick Minchin getting ready for an interview on ABC News Breakfast, ABC2’s morning show, which often features crosses from various ABC TV and radio stations around the country.
Sound kicks in at 20 seconds.
ABC TV appoints News Director
The ABC has apppointed Kate Torney, 41, its news for director for Australia Network and Radio Australia, to replace John Cameron.
Torney was a founding executive producer of the Sunday morning political program Insiders and its sports-themed sibling, Offsiders, and a producer of the Victorian edition of the Stateline program. She will move to Sydney to take up the role next month.
At Australia Network she oversaw the introduction of desktop editing technology — with which TV journalists can edit their own stories — and studio automation, contentious changes that she will be …
Auditions: Project NEXT
Andrew Denton and the ABC have finally released more details of their obscurely worded Project NEXT -and it sounds very tasty indeed.
In a nutshell, Denton is looking for “the next generation” of Australian broadcasters, in both on-air and off-air talent.
Leaning heavily (though not exclusively) towards documentary, factual, news and current affairs, the hunt is on for people aged 18-30 to work as reporters, producers, camera/directors, editors, graphic artists, researchers and web content producers.
God bless Denton. Who else would have the foresight and might to make something like this happen? He has …
ABC2 Brekkie host switch
Change is not just the domain of commercial television breakfast shows. ABC2’s News Breakfast summer co-host Joe O’Brien will replace Barrie Cassidy as permanent co-host alongside Virginia Trioli.
O’Brien, a journalist and presenter with the ABC since 1995 on ABC News bulletins and the national Midday Report has also been co-hosting on Fridays.
Cassidy stepped into the role temporarily following the arrest of Peter Lloyd in Singapore. Lloyd was originally earmarked for the role.
According to the ABC, Cassidy “will continue to appear on the program providing political analysis and commentary”.
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