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ONE turns up the heat
ONE steps up the pace on a number of sports over the coming week.
Formula 1 season starts this weekend. ONE’s Season Preview show airs 7.30 tonight before the Qualifying race airs 10pm Saturday and the first race from Bahrain airs at 10pm Sunday.
Cricket’s 3rd edition of the Twenty20 IPL begins late Friday night – all 60 games are exclusive to ONE with lots of doubleheaders coming up.
The Women’s Australian Open in Golf airs this weekend. Last weekend’s Australian Ladies Masters was the first time an Aussie sporting event had an all-female …
Victoria at risk of losing Logies
More speculation that the Logies may be on the move today with the Brumby Government’s major events unit, The Victorian Major Events Company, reportedly being asked to belatedly consider backing TV’s night of nights.
VMEC already supports sports and arts events including the Australian Grand Prix, AFL finals series, Spring Racing Carnival, Australian Masters (golf), Melbourne Fashion Week, Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Nine and TV Week have been considering what is believed to be a tempting incentive from Queensland Events, the Queensland Government’s major events …
Formula 1 sticks to ONE
TEN has announced a five-year extension of its Australian broadcast rights to Formula 1.
The new agreement commences in 2011 and extends through to the conclusion of the 2015 season.
The agreement with Formula One Management will provide TEN with live and excusive coverage of all Formula 1 races and the new deal also covers all online, mobile and IPTV rights.
TEN’s general manager of sport, David White, said: “Formula 1 has always had a large, passionate and loyal following in Australia.
“With Mark Webber’s two great wins this year, along with the emergence …
The Who for SuperBowl
Well, we definitely wouldn’t want any wardrobe malfunctions here…
Legendary rock band The Who will play the halftime show at SuperBowl XLIV. The band was the top act at the Australian Grand Prix earlier this year.
America’s biggest sports game will take place on February 7th (US). More than 150 million viewers watched this year as Bruce Springsteen took to the stage. Other recent acts have included Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Prince, the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and of course Janet Jackson & Justin Timberlake.
With The Who performing it will be like …
Tim Bailey -rain, hail or hecklers
Channel TEN’s Tim Bailey had his work cut out for him during a live cross on TEN’s Sydney News tonight.
And he’d just finished saying how enjoyable it was to return from a holiday too…
Updated: Bailey told the Daily Telegraph “all hell broke loose” after this sequence.
He said the girl scratched his face and then continued her rampage when the live cross was cut, roughly pushing a singing teacher in the head, then punching another woman attached to the choir before running off.
“The girl was absolutely wild-eyed and physical and just …
Heaven for Seven
As they went into Saturday night Seven and Nine were a dead heat. It was a chance for Nine to win its second week of the ratings year. But it was not to be.
Seven clinched the night on comedy repeats, including old Vicar of Dibley reruns it nabbed from the ABC, and Seven News, winning the week with 27.7% ahead of Nine’s 27.4% and TEN’s 23.3%. The ABC had 16.9% and SBS on 4.7%.
Nine won key demos 18-49 and 25-54. TEN won 16-39 (and it also beat Seven in 18-49).
Nine also …
TEN wins Sunday
Network TEN has won its second night of ratings this year, thanks to a big push from the 2009 Australian Grand Prix. The twilight event helped push the race into primetime, something networks have long desired of the AFL Grand Final.
It follows the network winning last Thursday, when the Richmond v Carlton match helped it win the night. On the back of its launch for ONE, sport looks a winner with the TEN audience.
The race pulled just over 1m viewers nationally. In Melbourne, the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix Race …
Rove: guests
TEN has sent through it’s next batch of guests for the hi-to-your-mum-for-me show (and we mean that as a term of endearment).
22nd March
Steve Coogan (UK comic genius, star of UK & Hollywood films)
Ruby Rose (MTV presenter)
Evermore (performing “Hey Boys And Girls”)
29th March
Nick Frost (UK comic actor/star in new comedy film “The Boat That Rocked”)
David Wenham (Aussie actor promoting “Jerry Springer: The Opera” at the Sydney Opera House)
Sia (performing “Buttons”)
The show on March 29 won’t start until 10pm, due to the the Grand Prix.
Sunday March 29 Syd / Mel
12pm Formula 1: ING …