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This Month

Seven’s AFL broadcast must reach the whole country – but it doesn’t own its Tasmanian and South Australian stations.

The $6m media deal threatening Seven’s AFL and cricket coverage

Australian Digital Holdings, the conservative network founded with Alan Jones as a host, controls the future of Seven’s signal in Tasmania and South Australia.

Antony Catalano has been pitching his View Media Group’s synergies with Domain.

Catalano still has eyes for Nine’s Domain

The media entrepreneur had a plan. He wanted back in to the property listing platform he once ran. Then New York-listed CoStar arrived with a blockbuster bid.

February

Kerry Stokes at the 2024 AFL Grand Final in the MCG Olympic room.

Who owns the world’s largest TV? It might be Kerry Stokes

The veteran media proprietor has a 30ft television set, which one person guessed was a record breaker.

Australian shares are poised to start the day as commodities rallied overseas.

ASX flat; CSL extends sell off on sales blow, lithium miners tumble

Sharemarket seesaws; CSL tumbles on sales blow; gold buoys Evolution, De Grey; impairment hit for Ramsay; upgrades on the horizon for Breville.

Usman Khawaja relaxes after Australia won against Sri Lanka earlier this month. Seven West said the test drove record sign-ups to its 7plus platform.

Seven West says advertising dollars returning amid streaming surge

Investors shrug off poor profit update after bullish comments from the Stokes-controlled group’s chief executive, sending Seven and Nine shares soaring.

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ADH TV’s co-founder Jack Bulfin. The company has been negotiating with Southern Cross for some of its television assets.

Conservative broadcaster ADH TV firms on regional free-to-air network

Licences covering Tasmania, Darwin and a swathe of South Australia were put up for sale by ASX-listed Southern Cross Austereo last year.

Federal Court secretly suppresses Seven’s workplace dirty laundry

The judge did not alert news outlets until after the decision to withhold the claims had been made, despite previous attempts to oppose the move.

January

Kerry Stokes.

Transparency lacking in WA media and politics

Readers’ letters on conflicts of interest between Seven West Media and Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas, the Howard government bugging East Timor, the alienation of young men and ADHD treatments.

December 2024

Basil Zempilas.

Coverage of Basil Zempilas rival unfair, imbalanced: press watchdog

The Seven West-funded Independent Media Council has upheld three complaints about negative coverage of the Perth mayor’s opponent.

Perth lord mayor, Seven West Media columnist and Liberal candidate Basil Zempilas.

Shameless end to a very Kerry Stokes political coup

The media proprietor’s employee Basil Zempilas still insists he knew nothing of his campaign manager’s polling that almost rolled the WA Liberal leader.

Gretel Killeen hosted Big Brother in its heyday. She is pictured here in 2005.

Next year, broadcasters are going all in on ‘bit dirty’ reality TV

Some of the biggest franchises of the genre have languished for years, with audiences fading. Now major networks are hoping for a big revival.

November 2024

Perth Lord Mayor and Liberal candidate for Churchlands, Basil Zempilas.

The man who would be the new king of WA

Basil Zempilas is now the most high-profile name in WA politics, and he hasn’t even been elected to parliament.

V8 Supercars, the host of the Bathurst 1000, wants a new multimillion dollar broadcast deal.

V8 Supercars taps advisers for $200m-plus TV deal

Sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations said the motor racing organisation has already met with Nine and incumbents Seven and Foxtel about a new deal.

Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas and Liberal Party leader Libby Mettam.

WA Liberal leader slaps down speculation over her future

Libby Mettam has vowed to lead the party to the next state election amid renewed speculation that Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas might swoop on the position.

Maurice Newman is part of a bid to buy Southern Cross Austereo’s 96 TV stations.

Alan Jones’ old media company eyes Southern Cross regional TV assets

Australian Digital Holdings TV, chaired by former ABC board member Maurice Newman, said it would commit to making more local shows.

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Visitors viewing Lindy Lee’s Ouroboros at night.

National Gallery handed $15m in biggest-ever donation

Kerry Stokes’ $15 million donation is about one-quarter of what the Canberra institution needs to raise for a new sculpture garden.

October 2024

Bruce McWilliam’s wife Nicky leaving Sydney’s Downing Centre Court after giving evidence that her father’s former assistant allegedly stole $1.2 million.

Bruce McWilliam’s wife testifies against EA accused of $1.2m family fraud

Nicky McWilliam has accused her late father’s former executive assistant of siphoning more than $1.2 million from his accounts.

Seven boss James Warburton.

James Warburton joins HCF-backed sportstech VC; raise in the offing

Street Talk can report the media executive has joined sport & health technology VC XT Venture as it seeks to raise its first investment fund.

The Spotlight is on Seven’s conduct.

Seven doesn’t want the spotlight on ‘Spotlight’

Seven says ‘Spotlight’ shines a light on uncomfortable stories – but not when ‘Spotlight’ itself is the story.

Southern Cross Austereo CEO John Kelly took over in July.

Seven West, Network 10 edge towards TV deal at Southern Cross

Sources said SCA was negotiating with Seven and Ten around the $15 million to $20 million mark.

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