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Former Foxtel chief executive Peter Tonagh to join Nine board
The businessman has recently left the ABC board, where he was deputy chairman. His appointment comes amid a broader overhaul of the media group’s management.
- 1 hr ago
- Kylar Loussikian
This Month
Five times Facebook’s fact-checkers got it wrong
Independent fact-checkers working for Facebook have helped debunk hundreds of fake news stories and false rumours, but there have been several high-profile missteps.
- Matthew Field
- Exclusive
- Media & marketing
Amanda Laing firms for mega Nine broadcast job amid restructure
The former Foxtel executive left the News Corp-run pay television business last year. She could soon oversee Nine’s television, radio and Stan.
- Kylar Loussikian
- Exclusive
- Media & marketing
John Wylie’s Tanarra Capital takes Nine stake after share price slide
The former investment banker is known for pushing companies his firm holds stakes in, from Lendlease to Tabcorp, to make major changes and spin off assets.
- Kylar Loussikian
- Opinion
- Media & marketing
One hundred million fans cannot make you famous
Mass, cross-generational audiences have disappeared, and even MrBeast can’t find them.
- Elaine Moore
December 2024
- Opinion
- Podcasts
The best (US) podcasts of 2024
From chat shows to true crime, here’s a pick of the 10 best Americans series released this year.
- Reggie Ugwu
Trump-loving cable network Newsmax to launch in Australia
ADH TV, launched by former broadcaster Alan Jones, will bring the right-wing news channel by expanding under the Newsmax Australia brand.
- Kylar Loussikian
The best TV shows of 2024
The New York Times picks English Teacher, My Brilliant Friend, Shogun, Babylon Berlin and Somebody Somewhere among the series that stood out this year.
- James Poniewozik, Mike Hale and Margaret Lyons
News Corp sells Foxtel to British sports streaming giant in $3.4b deal
The multibillion-dollar deal will dramatically alter the local media landscape and create a rich competitor for sports broadcast deals.
- Zoe Samios
Ten writes TV licence values to zero as losses balloon to $322m
But the broadcaster, now owned by Paramount Global, said it was optimistic about the future as it repositioned itself for a world where streaming dominates.
- Kylar Loussikian
Gillon McLachlan hires former Ten executive to run Tabcorp’s Sky Racing
Jarrod Villani was a KordaMentha partner who sold the ailing broadcaster to CBS, now Paramount, before running the business for several years.
- Zoe Samios
Paramount’s Network Ten snaps up three regional broadcast licences
The seller, Southern Cross Media, has been trying to offload them for several years. It said it was in talks to sell others in Tasmania, Darwin and Broken Hill.
- Zoe Samios
Rich Lister-backed Vinyl Group in equity raise to fund acquisition
Sole lead manager Peloton Capital was rounding up investors at 10¢ a pop for a fully underwritten accelerated rights issue, sources said.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Immersive
- Media & marketing
The surprisingly small details that broke our biggest stories of 2024
Our reporters take you behind the scenes to reveal how they broke some of this year’s most engaging stories.
- Lucy King and Daniel Reti
- Updated
- Media & marketing
Former Nine boss Hugh Marks to lead ABC
The executive who pulled off the broadcaster’s merger with Fairfax and helped lobby for big tech to pay for Australian content starts his new job in March.
- Zoe Samios
Drive show host Chris O’Keefe leaves 2GB
Nine’s Sydney talkback radio station is searching for more talent after its drive show host called it quits.
- Zoe Samios
Industry super funds sell The New Daily
The New Daily, brainchild of former Industry Super chairman Garry Weaven, has sold for an undisclosed sum.
- Zoe Samios
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Big tech should not be above the law of the land
In general, the last thing Australia needs is a new tax. But Meta’s thumbing its nose at Australia’s pioneering regulation justifies Labor’s attempt to lay down the law to the tech giants.
- The AFR View
Richard White-backed Vinyl Group set to acquire Concrete Playground
Vinyl Group is becoming a serial media acquirer, picking up The Brag Media, Mediaweek and now Concrete Playground.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
DAZN chief executive lands in Sydney as Foxtel buyout talks progress
Shay Segev’s visit comes at the same time as Rupert Murdoch has returned to the country for the first time in six years and as News Corp assesses bids for Foxtel.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Murdoch ‘Succession’ tropes can’t hide a dilemma for investors
The Murdoch family feud makes for fabulous drama, but for long-term investors it masks a vital question.
- James Thomson
Foxtel’s UK suitor calls in Bank of America for advice
The group, backed by billionaire Len Blavatnik, is understood to be working with BofA’s telecommunications and media team.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Updated
- Murdoch family case
Logan Roy’s death morphed into a real life Murdoch succession drama
Shortly after the fictional patriarch died on television, the family behind the News and Fox empires began to plot life after their patriarch, Rupert.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Streaming
Bugger Spotify, I’m going to make my own playlist
Even by the internet’s grim standards, Spotify Wrapped is a wretched gimmick.
- Tom Gatti
Omnicom to buy Interpublic in $20.6b deal
The merger of the two agencies will create the world’s largest advertising company, taking that title from London-based WPP.
- Fareed Sahloul and Mark Bergen