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    Bruce McAvaney very nearly wasn’t going to be working on the 2024 Olympics.

    How ‘the voice of the Games’ was nearly off the air for Paris

    Bruce McAvaney has been calling the Olympic Games since 1984, but he was left feeling lost when Seven failed to pick up the broadcasting rights. Then the phone rang.

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    • Sam Buckingham-Jones
    Nine chief executive Mike Sneesby. The media group has secured the rights to the Olympic Games for the first time since 2012.

    $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
    Nine Entertainment CEO Mike Sneesby at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney at the company’s 2023 upfront.

    The TV networks’ big annual parties aren’t a good look this year

    Cost-conscious broadcasters are set to overhaul their new season show reveals – champagne-fuelled events known as upfronts.

    • Sam Buckingham-Jones

    Yesterday

    Mediaweek’s Trent Thomas has discussed a potential sale of the publication internally.

    Mediaweek publisher flags potential sale of business with staff

    Those comments came after the Financial Review revealed Trent Thomas had been found by external investigators to have bullied and harassed a member of staff.

    • Sam Buckingham-Jones

    This Month

    Supreme Court of Western Australia.

    How $116 in travel expenses blew up a public servant’s life

    A defamation judgment against Kerry Stokes’ newspaper is a grim tale of expenses and shoddy journalism.

    • Mark Di Stefano
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    Rupert Murdoch and his new wife, Elena Zhukova, at the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley Media and Technology Conference on Wednesday.

    Newlywed Murdoch joins Bezos and Canva duo at billionaires’ retreat

    The 93-year-old media mogul is no longer returning home to mark The Australian’s 60th anniversary – but he does appear to have given it a present.

    • Sam Buckingham-Jones
    Former Minister Linda Reynolds arrives at the Perth Supreme Court for a mediation session with Brittany Higgins, flanked by husband Robert Reid (left) and lawyer Martin Bennett.

    Liberals still want vindication on Brittany Higgins saga

    Suggestions we need to understand how the Higgins allegations affected the last election are telling. But satisfaction is unlikely.

    • Myriam Robin
    Mary Barra, chairman and chief executive officer of General Motors Co., arrives at the Sun Valley Lodge

    Old and new money meet at billionaires’ annual retreat

    Network Ten owner Shari Redstone was in Sun Valley along with Bob Iger, a crop of Democratic presidential hopefuls and the tech elite for the annual Allen & Co gathering.

    • Nick Bonyhady
    Shari Redstone has sold Paramount, which she spent years battling to retain as her father aged.

    Network Ten owner sold to ‘Top Gun’ billionaires

    The billionaire family behind Oracle Corporation along with ‘Mission Impossible’ and ‘Top Gun’ films will take control of the network in a complex deal.

    • Nick Bonyhady
    Mediaweek’s Trent Thomas will “step back”.

    Mediaweek publisher to ‘step back’ amid workplace misconduct claims

    Formal complaints about alleged behaviour of Trent Thomas, owner of the trade media publication, lodged by two people and investigated by external firms.

    • Sam Buckingham-Jones

    ‘We know nothing’: Media blasts information void in privacy reform

    Uncertainty about the Albanese government’s new privacy laws threatens billions in advertising, with one data firm urging clients to pause online targeting.

    • Sam Buckingham-Jones
    Former tennis champ Todd Woodbridge is hosting Tipping Point Australia.

    Todd Woodbridge and the jackpot quiz thwarting Seven’s news offensive

    The former tennis star and Nine presenter is upending the 6pm news ratings battle because of the unlikely success of the game show he hosts at 5pm.

    • Sam Buckingham-Jones
    Mediaweek’s Trent Thomas

    Mediaweek rocked by sexual harassment allegations

    Trent Thomas, who owns and runs Mediaweek, was found by an internal HR investigation to have sexually harassed and bullied staff.

    • Sam Buckingham-Jones
    Airtasker founder and CEO Tim Fung.

    Airtasker bets $10m stake on radio, outdoor media surge

    Airtasker founder Tim Fung has signed two deals in two weeks with media companies to promote its gig economy platform.

    • Sam Buckingham-Jones
    Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and wife Kirilly.

    What’s Peter Dutton got against David Crowe?

    Midwinter Ball speeches are meant to be roasts, and we’d never suggest journalists are off-limits. But Dutton’s dig at Crowe is starting to form a pattern.

    • Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
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    Bruce Lehrmann is to stand trial on rape charges.

    Lehrmann committed to stand trial on two counts of rape

    Magistrate Mark Howden returned with a decision that a reasonable jury, properly instructed, could potentially find the allegations proven beyond reasonable doubt.

    • Rex Martinich
    Robert Irwin and Julia Morris on Ten’s I’m a Celebrity.

    Network Ten wavers on turning off broadcast across swath of WA

    The regional signal – a joint venture between Seven West Media and WIN Corporation – will remain on air only after more funding from the federal government.

    • Sam Buckingham-Jones

    June

    Sam Altman’s ChatGPT has pledged to obey website owners instructions for its bot not to access their sites.

    Nine considers expelling AI bots from checking out its content

    Major publishers including the New York Times already restrict what services such as ChatGPT can see. Others say AI “scraping” is an “extinction-level event”.

    • Nick Bonyhady
    Tucker Carlson addresses a crowd, including federal MPs, at an event in Canberra on Tuesday.

    In Australia, Tucker Carlson finds a new enemy: the ABC

    The right-wing commentator wrongly accused the ABC of criticising him, in another example of how on society’s fringe the market for alternate realities runs strong.

    • Aaron Patrick
    Last week Nine Entertainment chief executive Mike Sneesby told parliament jobs will go if Meta’s deals do.

    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