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This Month
- Opinion
- Governance
The good, the bad and the ugly of corporate Australia in 2024
Big deals, big names, big disasters. From AirTrunk to Woolies to our own Nine Entertainment, here are the biggest moments of the year.
- James Thomson
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
Bledisloe win every two years: Waugh’s lofty plan for Rugby Australia
The governing body wants to win the British and Irish Lions tour, Olympic medals and the Bledisloe Cup every two years under an ambitious new four-year strategy.
- Zoe Samios
Exits, cuts and Smooth FM: Nine mulls future of 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR
While it has shelved plans to replace its Perth radio station with a music feed from Nova, there are plenty of challenges at the company’s radio division.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Analysis
- AGM season
Wine, coffee and shortbread biscuits: Inside this year’s AGM season
“Why can’t you pay dividends in gold instead of cash?” one investor asked the mining company’s board. “I want to hang a chunk from a necklace.”
- Mark Wembridge
Nine’s Airlie Walsh sues network amid workplace culture fallout
The well-known television personality had worked on the Today breakfast program and as a political reporter for more than a decade.
- Max Mason and Sam Buckingham-Jones
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.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
November
Peter Costello’s journalist son back in the spotlight
A Current Affair’s Seb Costello had an ugly interaction with a person involved with Oak Capital this week.
- Mark Di Stefano
CFMEU-busting investigation winners laud whistleblowers, sources
The panel judging the Walkley Awards said the Breaking Bad series was “an incredible, courageous feat of investigative journalism”.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
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.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Updated
- Crime
Police charge Alan Jones with 24 offences days before trip to US
The veteran broadcaster was charged with 24 offences against eight alleged victims after an investigation into “sexual touching offences spanning two decades”.
- Updated
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Nine board puts (some of) its money where its mouth is
Nine Entertainment shareholders can complain about many things, but they can’t say directors aren’t listening.
- Hannah Wootton
Nine Entertainment keeps its Costello quotient
Another member of the Costello family appeared at the media company’s AGM, to lash it over gambling advertising.
- Mark Di Stefano
Nine hit with protest vote on executive pay at fiery AGM
New chairman Catherine West and acting CEO Matt Stanton have faced hard questions at Nine’s annual meeting, incurring a first strike.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Nine’s acting CEO wants business review alongside cultural reset
After a torrid year and a sliding share price, the company’s acting chief executive, Matt Stanton, will front his first annual general meeting on Thursday.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Bruce Gordon’s WIN profits halve even as advertising revenue holds up
Accounts lodged by the regional media empire owned by the billionaire businessman show costs have risen, as the group weathers a broader slump in ad sales.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
October
Why Tabcorp’s Gill McLachlan has banned pollies from the Birdcage
Politicians and journalists have been given short shrift, while Anthony Albanese and others will probably skip G.H. Mumm’s private jet theme.
- Patrick Durkin
WA knocks back initial NRL funding request
The WA government has set up a taskforce to work directly with the NRL on brokering a deal for an 18th rugby league club.
- Tom Rabe and Zoe Samios
- Analysis
- Governance
Director goes from ‘troublemaker’ to whistleblower
It is hard for investors to work out if a director is any good, when the first rule of director club is don’t talk about the director club.
- Patrick Durkin
Rock stars and Wiggles: Google takes on big tech rules
The search giant is bankrolling parties and events that are an unsubtle reminder to the government of its huge power.
- Paul Smith and Sam Buckingham-Jones