April 2024
Seven CEO James Warburton exits with $6.6m in shares
Who needs a non-disparagement clause when there are 33 million shares riding on talking up the Kerry Stokes-controlled broadcaster?
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
May 2023
Seven downgrades TV ad market forecast, adds $15m more cost cuts
Seven West Media CEO James Warburton says the television advertising will bounce back quickly when the market improves.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
February 2023
No sign of dividends as Seven West Media profit slides
Analysts have lowered forecasts for Seven West Media after chief executive James Warburton flagged a ‘mid to high single-digit’ decline in advertising revenue.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Cricket Australia clean bowled, yet again
The bargain Seven has just extracted from the jokers of Jolimont Street is almost unbelievable.
- Joe Aston
January 2023
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Seven scores big in cricket deal
After spending six months bowling bumpers at the heads of Cricket Australia, Seven’s James Warburton is celebrating a seven-year sports rights deal to 2031.
- Tony Boyd
October 2022
How Seven is betting the house on an American content studio
The network’s deal with NBCUniversal will run for seven years, and it expects to be able to launch yet another subscription video on-demand partnership after two years.
- Edmund Tadros and Mark Di Stefano
Two top Channel Seven female executives head for the exit
The Kerry Stokes-owned company’s head of marketing and human resources will both depart.
- Mark Di Stefano
August 2022
‘Tent pole’ TV not what it was, says Channel 7 boss
CEO James Warburton insists on putting “economics over ego” in the pursuit of ratings.
- Mark Di Stefano
Seven and Catalano join forces on real estate venture
Antony Catalano and James Warburton have buried the hatchet, as Seven West Media will invest in the regional media mogul’s digital property and ad play.
- Max Mason and Mark Di Stefano
- Exclusive
- AFL 2022
Seven banks on AFL rights: ‘We have a very strong relationship’
James Warburton is confident of retaining the rights to broadcast the AFL from 2025, despite Channel 10/Paramount and Nine Entertainment/Stan circling the bidding.
- Mark Di Stefano and Patrick Durkin
June 2022
Seven seeks to blow up cricket broadcast rights deal
Seven Network wants the Federal Court to allow it to cancel its deal, for which it pays $75 million cash and $7 million in free advertising a year.
- Miranda Ward
Seven boss urges government against content requirements for streamers
James Warburton has outlined what he hopes the new government will and will not do when it comes to media regulation.
- Miranda Ward
May 2022
Coalition urged to ensure AFL Grand Final remains free to watch
The nation’s free-to-air TV networks are urging the Coalition to commit to making major sporting events available to viewers without cost.
- Miranda Ward
February 2022
Seven searches for the ‘right’ streaming partner
Seven West Media is focused on its hunt for a subscription video-on-demand service.
- Updated
- Miranda Ward
December 2021
Big tech crackdown and an election: how 2022 will play out for media
The Australian Financial Review’s Media & Marketing section rounds out the year with a look at what to expect next year.
- Miranda Ward
Competition watchdog green lights Seven-Prime deal
The ACCC has given the go-ahead for the merger of Seven West Media and Prime.
- Miranda Ward
November 2021
- Analysis
- Media & marketing
Ratings crown ignores shift to digital
In a year when every commercial free-to-air TV network is a winner, the focus needs to be on who is successfully navigating the transition period between traditional television and digital.
- Miranda Ward
- Exclusive
- Executive pay
Revealed: Australia’s 50 highest-paid CEOs
The annual chief executive pay survey shows a drastic jump in average remuneration of 24 per cent and annual bonuses soaring by 67 per cent.
- Updated
- Patrick Durkin
Seven West Media won’t commit to dividend timetable
Despite celebrating a return to success, Kerry Stokes says he can commit only to a review of the reinstatement of dividends in 2022.
- Miranda Ward
9Network says Seven audience growth does not matter to advertisers
Channel 9 is firing back at rival Seven’s claims it has won the TV ratings numbers, but it is all a matter of how you cut the numbers.
- Miranda Ward