This Month
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- Executive shake-up
Amanda Laing joins Nine, Stan CEO departs in strategic overhaul
The company is simplifying its management and giving executives more responsibility for revenue growth. Several senior figures will depart as a result.
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- Zoe Samios
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- 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
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- 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
October 2024
Nine review triggers anger as bad behaviour goes unpunished
Today Show host Karl Stefanovic said there were open investigations into poor behaviour by individuals at Nine. Has Nine’s culture review backfired?
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
September 2024
Nine farewells Mike Sneesby after three years and $3b share price slide
His legacy is likely to be remembered in two parts: what he did do at Stan, and what he didn’t do when he took charge of the publishing and broadcasting giant.
- Zoe Samios
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Nine’s next chief executive must fix Sneesby’s strategic paralysis
A sagging share price and a torrid last five months led to investors losing confidence. Chairwoman Catherine West and her new CEO face a tough turnaround.
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- James Thomson
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- Media & marketing
Sneesby steps down as Nine CEO
Mike Sneesby’s resignation comes at a critical time for the media giant, which is conducting a review into workplace culture while juggling a decline in advertising.
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- Zoe Samios
August 2024
Nine reveals how much it paid to air Paris Olympics
The rights to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games through to Brisbane 2032 cost Nine $305 million.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
July 2024
AFR, SMH, Age staff reach wage deal after five-day strike
Unionised staff at Nine Entertainment’s major mastheads voted to approve a new, three-year pay deal.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Nine CEO runs in Paris torch relay as strike action looms at home
The company’s chief executive, Mike Sneesby, waved happily to French locals hours after journalists in his publishing division voted overwhelmingly in favour of a five-day strike.
- Zoe Samios
$135m and 5000 hours: Paris Olympics ‘profitable’, Nine CEO says
Nine Entertainment chief Mike Sneesby says the media giant will make money out of its big bet on the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
June 2024
Nine Entertainment to cut 200 jobs as Meta content deal ends
CEO Mike Sneesby made the announcement as Nine battles a weaker advertising market and a content deal with Meta, which runs Instagram and Facebook, ends.
- Max Mason
Bruce Gordon, 95, bulks up interest in Nine
The billionaire increased his interest in Nine to more than 25 per cent, giving the billionaire businessman outsize influence just hours before a board meeting that resulted in the resignation of the company’s chairman Peter Costello.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Costello departure won’t end questions hanging over Nine
The media giant’s cultural crisis is far from over, but CEO Mike Sneesby and new chairman Catherine West have a long list of strategic questions to reckon with.
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- James Thomson
May 2024
Stan’s publicity chief took six-figure payout on exit
Adrian Foo left the Nine Entertainment-owned streaming service last year amid an investigation into allegations of inappropriate workplace conduct.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
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- Media & marketing
Stan executive left Nine’s streaming business after workplace claims
The departure followed complaints from multiple staff, and was months before another executive left the media group amid separate sexual harassment allegations.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Nine to investigate television newsroom culture after Wick exit
The media group’s leadership team held a crisis meeting last week to discuss the situation, and the company’s board is also expected to meet this week.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
January 2024
Tory Maguire elevated to Nine’s top publishing job
Tory Maguire will oversee all of Nine’s publications, including The Australian Financial Review.
August 2023
Nine reveals how many people pay for Stan
Nine’s CEO Mike Sneesby shared surprisingly low churn numbers for Stan, as well as flat revenue and double-digit falls in earnings and profit.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
August 2022
Australians got addicted to subscription TV. What happens now?
Subscriptions to streaming TV platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime are up 22 per cent in Australia.
- Mark Di Stefano and Max Mason