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More questions on local content quotas
In the wake of the government’s $250m TV license rebate, suddenly media has begun asking about local content requirements on digital channels such as 7TWO and GO!
Those very questions were posed on TV Tonight last week.
Today The Australian features an opinion piece by Simon Whipp, assistant federal secretary of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, who writes:
However the minister has forgotten one important section of the US free trade agreement, the section that addresses the free-to-air multi-channels such as the Nine Network’s Go! and Seven Network’s 7Two.
This is rather surprising …
Beastly behaviour
After their sneaky fake Press Release from the fictional Levitt Institute fooled media last year, the Hungry Beast team are promising to behave themselves this year. Sort of.
Their fake survey results on supposedly-gullible cities made news on numerous radio, television and print media.
Host Dan Ilic tells TV Tonight there are no plans to pull another stunt like that this season.
“Though I say that and I’m sure your readers will see it and say ‘Yeah, sure you’re not,” he says.
More significantly, since pulling that swifty, he hears other media now have their …
Media Watch ready for new targets
Jonathan Holmes returns tonight for his third year of hosting Media Watch for the ABC.
This year the show will have extra targets in sight, including the ABC’s continuous News channel and the prospect that free newspaper websites might disappear. It is assured of more ‘beat-ups and stuff-ups’ along the way.
Says Holmes, “I don’t particularly enjoy lambasting my colleagues – well sometimes I do – but not when it involves criticising serious journalists for their work on complex issues,” he says. “I’m all too aware myself of how hard it can …
Hoon TV
Last night both A Current Affair and Today Tonight had a story on “Carlo the Car Hoon.” Both showed footage of a young driver “drifting” in his high speed car on public roads -clearly an unsafe menace and perfect vision for a juicy story.
In the footage, “Carlo” told Freehand (Productions) he wanted to be Australia’s very own Stig. Freehand produced the two local versions of Top Gear for SBS (how old is this footage, it was 2 yrs ago SBS was calling for cast?).
Both shows also took a different editorial tone …
Logies relent on Community TV eligiblity
The 2010 Logie Awards will allow Community Television broadcasters to submit for its Outstanding categories for the first time.
The shift follows a campaign in 2009 by Channel 31 producer Shannon Marinko to submit The Bazura Project for consideration in a year when comedy was considered fairly slim.
At the time he was knocked back, with the Logies citing Free to Air and Pay TV eligibility and associated rulings. That drew the attention of Media Watch which began raising questions about eligibility.
Since then Freeview has embraced the Community TV sector and the …
2010 Logies: Who didn’t make the cut already?
Sarah Wilson was Presenter on the highest rating show in 2009 -but it wasn’t enough to land her on the shortlist for 2010 Logie Nominations.
The Masterchef host is now out of the race for Best Presenter and Gold Logie before the race even begins. But she is in good company.
Yesterday’s list of possible contenders published by TV Week again utilised a voting system it has employed in recent years: an individual numerical code for each actor, actress and presenter as a way of facilitating the results. It contrasts with a historical …
Leaner, meaner Hungry Beast.
The ABC has announced Nick Hayden (pictured), Monique Schafter, Dan Ilic and Kirsten Drysdale will take the hosting seat on the second season of Hungry Beast.
The changes follow the show’s debut season last year, in which 7 hosts fronted the show. Others amongst the 19 young recruits also appeared on screen.
Now amongst its fine-tuning, the show will see a slimmed down presenting team, but all 19 will continue to create stories for the show and website as well as reporting in stories.
Last year’s fake story about a ‘gullibility report’ …
May 09: Matthew Johns, Karl after the Logies, Eurovision, Bud Tingwell
May:
WIN loses defamation case
The Chaser: Charges? What charges?
Gold Logie: It’s Rebecca!
Gretel’s Logies flop
Search for an Aussie Jerry Springer
Late News returns to Nine
Sam Newman to be ‘tarred and feathered’
ABC’s Eternity Man wins international award
Media Watch: 20 Years: Stuff Ups, Beat Ups & Barneys
Karl Stefanovic, the morning after
Fawlty Towers stars reunite
MASH’s David Ogden Stiers comes out
Gossip Girl spin-off ‘dead.’
Sam Newman put on ‘ACMA watch’
Rex Hunt guilty of road rage
Kiefer Sutherland charged with assault
Idol dumps Monday …
ABC: 2010 returning programs
Following on from the select highlights for ABC 2010, some readers have been asking about returning shows.
As we know The Einstein Factor, Sunday Arts and triple j with the doctor have all ended.
Here is the list of returning Australian-made shows not previously noted for ABC1 and ABC2:
Australian Story (ABC1, ABC2, iView),
News Breakfast (ABC2),
7pm News (ABC1),
The 7:30 Report (ABC1, iView),
Four Corners (ABC1, iView),
Foreign Correspondent (ABC1, iView),
Lateline (ABC1),
Landline (ABC1),
The Midday Report (ABC1),
Insiders (ABC1),
Inside Business (ABC1),
National Press Club (ABC1),
Offsiders (ABC1),
Stateline (ABC1),
Behind the News (ABC1)
Asia Pacific Focus (ABC1),
The Gruen Transfer (ABC1, repeated ABC2, iView),
Hungry …
The hits on iView
Four Corners, United States of Tara, Good Game, Doctor Who, The Chaser’s War on Everything and Media Watch are the most popular titles on the ABC’s iView platform.
The online catch-up service has been operating since July 2008.
Since April this year there have been 6.2 million views of programs with an annual monthly average of 610,000 visits, up by 140% compared to last year.
It averages 206,000 visitors per month, up by 60% compared to last year.
In October 2009, ABC iView recorded its highest ever number of visitors and visits. 286,000 visitors and …
ACA report branded “powerful attack”
A report aired on A Current Affair in August 2008 is at the centre of a defamation case in the NSW Supreme Court today.
Sydney plastic surgeon and burns specialist Peter Anthony Haertsch is suing the Nine Network over a story on a Gold Coast ‘meter maid’ whose breast implants went horribly wrong.
In the report the woman described her stitches bursting before the implants began falling out. It said Mr Haertsch had been banned from operating in Queensland and branded him a ‘disgraced plastic surgeon.’
In part of an interview for the report, …
Jonathan Holmes: “Pwned!”
“Which means that Garry Linnell, and Paul Kent, and their first rate sources, to use a word beloved of the computer-gamers, have been well and truly pwned,” said Jonathan Holmes on last night’s final Media Watch for 2009.
“That’s P-W-N-E-D. And I didn’t know the word either, until I started using Twitter. I rather like it.”
What Holmes was really doing was finding a way to squeeze in the use of the word ‘PWNED’ after a cheeky prompt by some snarky Twitterers.
Scott Bridges had thrown down the call to Holmes to incorporate …