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Sep 02, 2010 - 9:46 AM - by Mark
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Launceston's 89.3 LA FM "Love It" will soon have internal competition.
Owner Grant Broadcasters has entered into an agreement to acquire the city's second commercial radio licence from Tasradio Pty. Ltd.
The acquisition will bring more music alternatives as LA FM plays a broad playlist catering to many in the market.
"We are very excited by this opportunity, which would allow us to deliver complemetary music-based formats in Launceston, aimed at younger and more mature audiences.
"The parties are currently working to address [certain] matters."
A commencement date is yet to be announced, subject to further pending negotiations between the two parties.
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Sep 02, 2010 - 9:10 AM - by Mark
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Conservative NSW MP Fred Nile has denied that he has been accessing pornographic websites on his parliamentary computer, saying someone else must have used his log-on.
Mr Nile, from the Christian Democrat party, says reports in today's Daily Telegraph that porn websites have been accessed from his office 200,000 times are impossible.
Mr Nile is well known in NSW for his conservative stance on social issues, having been a long-time opponent of things such as the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Mr Nile's denial comes after Labor cabinet minister Paul McLeay resigned after admitting accessing adult and gambling websites on his parliamentary computer.
AAP
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Sep 02, 2010 - 7:15 AM - by Mark
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A man, named by police as James Lee, has taken hostages inside the Discovery Networks headquarters in Maryland.
Witnesses have told WJLA7 News Washington that a man entered the building, fired a gun and screamed "no one is going anywhere."
Police sources believe the man also has explosives on his person.
"We can confirm that he is armed and he does have some sort of package with him," said Scott Graham of the Montgomery County, Maryland, Fire Department.
Asked if that means Lee has as bomb, Graham said he could not say.
Lee is an environmental protester who has been publishing criticisms of the network, according to a senior law enforcement official close to the investigation.
An angry manifesto posted on a website called SaveThePlanetProtest.com repeatedly refers to humans as "filth" and demands that the Discovery Channel "stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants."
The siege remains underway as of 0615 AEST.
This post updates
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Sep 02, 2010 - 6:09 AM - by Mark
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TNT is renewing its other freshman drama of the summer.
Sources say the network is bringing back "Memphis Beat" for a second season.
The word comes following last month's pick up of TNT's new ratings smash "Rizzoli & Isles."
THR
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Sep 02, 2010 - 6:09 AM - by Mark
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HBO has picked up sophomore comedy series "Hung" for a third season.
The network has ordered another 10 episodes to air next year.
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Sep 01, 2010 - 1:16 PM - by Mark
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The Australian Communications and Media Authority today announced that it will issue licences to the Seven Network and the Nine Network to conduct trial broadcasts of 3D TV in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, Adelaide and Perth covering the AFL and NRL grand final matches, respectively.
The ACMA also indicated that it will suspend consideration of any further 3D TV trials while it conducts a review of certain spectrum, licensing and consumer policy issues associated with 3D TV.
ACMA chairman Chris Chapman:
‘There is still much for the industry in Australia and internationally to learn about 3D TV production, transmission and reception. Accordingly, the ACMA is pleased to facilitate these additional trials by the Seven Network and the Nine Network.’
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Sep 01, 2010 - 11:41 AM - by Mark
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The Ten Network has signed six major sponsors for its upcoming Junior Masterchef.
The MasterChef spin-off will be sponsored by Coles, Unilever, Sunbeam, Kellogg's, Birds Eye and Meat and Livestock Australia.
Kylie Rogers, Ten's national sales manager, stated:
"As one of Australia's most popular and successful television brands, it's no wonder the MasterChef franchise is highly sought after by some of Australia's biggest household brands. With its emphasis on the kitchen, Junior MasterChef is the perfect fit for both the grocery and kitchen appliance sector.
"We expect that just like MasterChef Australia, Junior MasterChef will appeal to a broad audience, making it the perfect fit for brands looking to engage with a cross-section of Australians."
Meat and Livestock Australia will employ its Junior MasterChef sponsorship to promote the nutritional benefits of beef and lamb through commercial breaks, as well as healthy red meat recipes featuring Junior MasterChef judge and mentor, Anna Gare.
Unilever will promote its OMO washing brand.
Kelloggs will have promotions for key cereal brands including Rice Bubbles, Corn Flakes and Sultana Bran. Kellogg's products will also feature in a Junior MasterChef pressure test.
Sunbeam appliances will be available for the children to use during challenges.
Coles will use online recipes and sponsored links on the official Junior MasterChef website. The company will also extend its long association with the MasterChef brand by providing grocery items for the Junior MasterChef kitchen.
Birds Eye will sponsor the online recipes.
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Sep 01, 2010 - 8:03 AM - by Mark
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Regional viewers look to be left digitally dudded once again with Southern Cross Media refusing to commit to ELEVEN, the Ten Network's new digital channel set to launch in Q1 of 2011.
Management at Southern Cross say the company will need to invest upwards of $13m to bring the channel to the regions and do not believe they will receive the audience support to make it a worthwhile investment.
CEO Rhys Holleran said that they only became aware of Eleven through a briefing from Ten a few hours before it’s launch to the market.
It is believed the company will meet again next week to discuss the channel.
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Aug 31, 2010 - 11:58 AM - by Mark
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Tasmania will be without extra digital channels in the near future with confirmation that 7mate and Eleven won’t be making it to the island state any time soon.
That means Tasmania will be left without high definition sports including the AFL Grand Final, with 7mate commencing broadcast on the mainland with the gala event.
Southern Cross Media’s Tasmanian general manager Craig Davies confirmed yesterday Tasmania would not be receiving the two new channels at the same time as mainland Australia.
“We are not sure of the timeframe because we haven’t got an agreement from Seven or Ten to bring these channels into Tasmania and we also do not have the capacity to broadcast these channels into Tasmania.”
"It is within our best interests to get them on air as soon as we possibly can,” he said.
He expects to be in a better position to make announcements in the next few weeks, The Mercury reports.
Mr Davies said the network’s broadcasting centre in Canberra required an extensive and expensive upgrade to boost its capacity.
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Aug 31, 2010 - 10:56 AM - by David Bird
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The Associated Press and Google have reached a new agreement giving the search giant rights to use AP's news stories.
AP and Google have revealed the two companies have reached a new licensing agreement, but that's about all they are saying.
No information has been released about how long the new agreement lasts (Google began licensing AP content in 2006), how much Google is paying for the rights, or how the companies plan to collaborate for their mutual benefit.
The existing agreement allows Google to publish complete AP stories on the web in much the same way as newspaper publishers license the same content for use in print and online.
iTWire
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Aug 30, 2010 - 7:30 PM - by Mark
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Buckling to pressure from rapid Canberra Raiders fans, WIN Television will screen the crucial match against the Brisbane Broncos live into southern NSW on Friday evening.
The match kicks off at 7.30pm.
Canberra Raiders CEO Don Furner is chuffed with the news and says it is huge for the club and Raiders fans as they deserve to see the game live. Furner thanked WIN for their support.
WIN Network Program Director, Danny Mitrovic stated:
“Just like the people of Canberra, WIN is right behind the Raiders and committed to delivering great programming to our viewers in the region.
“The game potentially has a huge bearing on who the Dragons will play in week one of the finals, so viewers in the Illawarra region should also be excited about getting to see this match live to air.”
Due to contractual agreements the Friday night rugby league matches are scheduled differently in the two states. Queensland teams heavily feature north of the NSW border whilst the southern teams are more popular in NSW.
Nine and NBN will screen the Gold Coast Titans vs West Tigers game at 7.30, with the Raiders vs Broncos at 9.30pm.
Because the Raiders game will be shown live into southern areas it will also allow ABC666 to broadcast the game to radio listeners in the Capital.
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Aug 30, 2010 - 8:59 AM - by Mark
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The Nine Network has fired a salvo at the Ten Network before the latter's broadcast of the Commonwealth Games by launching the first major marketing push of its digital offshoot GO!
The radio, outdoor, newspaper and online campaign for GO! will continue for six weeks at an estimated cost of $1.5m.
The digital station, which targets the same demographics as Ten, will promote 12 new or returning shows coming to Australia in coming weeks, including Hellcats, The Vampire Diaries and Nikita.
Unlike Seven and Ten, Nine does not promote its digital station on its main channels.
"We want to ensure Nine and GO! are completely separate brands," Nine's director of sales and marketing Peter Wiltshire told The Australian Financial Review.
"GO! hasn't cannibalised Nine. It has drawn a younger audience than Nine, which means we've been able to go to advertisers with a broad two-channel offer."
The median age for GO! is 36, compared with 49 for Nine, 51 for Seven and 7TWO, 38 for Ten and 37 for ONE HD.
The marketing push for GO! also corresponds with the Seven Network's third-channel launch 7mate, which will target males between 16-49. 7mate launches with the AFL Grand Final in HD on September 25th. Nine's new channel, expected to be called GEM, is set to launch a few days earlier.
Ten's new digital channel, ELEVEN, will launch in early 2011.
Mr. Wiltshire said the ad campaign for GO! is designed to promote the new programs on offer and lift its audience share. Media buyers expect the channel to squeeze Ten in the lead-up to the Commonwealth Games in October.
"Nine clearly thinks there is an opportunity to pick up some of Ten's viewers, get them to sample GO! and hooke them before the Games which will be of little interest to a chunk of Ten's audeince," one executive claimed.
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Aug 29, 2010 - 11:46 AM - by Mark
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For more than a week Knowfirst has been hearing rumours leaking out about Nine's new digital channel.
We keep hearing it will be called GEM, aimed at 40+ women, and focused on crime and movies. For a while we were told it would be a younger female channel. But now sources are saying it will aim older.
Today's Sunday Telegraph is hearing the same thing.
Expect it to launch before 7mate - as a big "screw you" to Seven's claims that it will be first.
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Aug 27, 2010 - 3:57 PM - by David Bird
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Australian publishing giant Fairfax Media Friday said it would begin charging for online content in the increasingly cut-throat newspaper environment as it reported a return to profit.
Fairfax reported an annual net profit of 282 million US dollars (250 million US), rebounding from a 380 million dollar loss a year earlier as advertising revenues rallied seven percent and the firm shrunk its debt.
"Our strong and stable management has made our business more efficient and improved our brand in print, online and broadcasting," said Fairfax CEO Brian McCarthy.
"We are also well positioned for growth in the mobile applications area."
Brisbane Times
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Aug 27, 2010 - 1:57 PM - by David Bird
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Sony is working on 3D televisions that don't need special glasses, joining a race with rival Toshiba, but sees cost and technological hurdles to overcome before they can go on sale.
Toshiba said earlier this week it is working on glasses-free 3D TVs, although no decision had been made on when they will go on sale.
Mainstream 3D TVs now on sale, such as those from Panasonic and Sony, require glasses. But there are already screens that don't require glasses, mainly intended for store displays. They require the viewer to stand in specific spots for the 3D effect to emerge, and the image quality is much lower than that of screens using glasses.
"Seeing 3D without glasses is more convenient," Sony Senior Vice President Yoshihisa Ishida said at Tokyo headquarters. "We must take account of pricing before we can think about when to start offering them."
Brisbane Times
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Aug 27, 2010 - 1:04 PM - by David Bird
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Channel Nine has been delivered a slapdown by a government regulator, which has declared the network does not have permission to screen the NRL grand final in 3D because it has not completed paperwork from an earlier trial.
The network this morning jumped the gun, promoting the fact the match would be offered in 3D before it had gained the necessary approval from the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
In a terse statement, the government watchdog said Channel Nine did not have approval to screen the game in 3D because it had not yet delivered a report on its earlier 3D broadcast of State of Origin rugby league matches.
"The Australian Communications and Media Authority has not issued a licence to the Nine Network to broadcast the NRL grand final in 3D, contrary to the network's media advisories earlier today," the regulator said.
SMH
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Aug 27, 2010 - 12:35 PM - by noel
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THE US-based home video rental giant Blockbuster Inc is preparing to file for bankruptcy within weeks,Blockbuster Inc chiefs flagged their intention to go into "pre-planned" bankruptcy in the middle of next month when they recently met with major debt holders and Hollywood's top movie distributors After ten years of domination, Blockbuster Inc - which has more than 65,000 stores worldwide, 3425 of them in America - has been fighting for survival against the internet and 21st century rivals such as Netflix.Blockbuster Inc has lost $US1.1 billion ($1.24 billion) in the last 18 months - and interest payments on $US920 million in debt have hampered attempts to boost business. Blockbuster Inc has also been closing hundreds of under-performing stores during the past two years.
Source LA TIMES
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Aug 27, 2010 - 11:40 AM - by David Bird
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News Ltd has one month to sell or close its local paper in Fiji, a spokeswoman for the country's interim government says.
The deadline for parties interested in purchasing the Fiji Times closed on Thursday, three months after self-appointed Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama decreed that the newspaper - owned by Rupert Murdoch's Australian arm - must be 90 per cent locally owned.
"I know that there are several local companies that have expressed an interest in the purchase," Fiji's permanent secretary for information, Sharon Smith-Johns, said today.
"It should be local investment in newspapers and it should be local ownership," the Australian-born spokeswoman for the government said.
Brisbane Times
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Aug 26, 2010 - 7:04 PM - by David Bird
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A Japanese research team said on Thursday it had developed the world's first 3D television system that allows users to touch, pinch or poke images floating in front of them.
"It is the first time that you can feel images in the air," said Norio Nakamura, senior scientist with the research team at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
"You can have the sense of touch like poking a rubber ball or stretching a sticky rice cake" when manipulating images, he told AFP by telephone.
Brisbane Times
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