How many people does it take to run the Ten TV network? Or rather, how many chiefs? That's the question with the hiring of ad man -- and rival network star -- Russel Howcroft.
It’s easy to focus on the bad news out of the media sector at the moment but on the weekend we also saw a bit of very good news emerge from the Murdoch family camp.
Five years ago, Ten -- thanks to its focus on the advertiser-friendly young demographic -- was the country's most profitable network. Now it's the least profitable. So who's killing Channel Ten?
The Ten Network debuts two important more programs tonight. It needs them to be hits, after the disaster of Everybody Dance Now. The flops are hurting the bottom line significantly
Kim Williams is the new boss of Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd. But we reckon playing second fiddle to Murdoch will be a tough gig for this one-time composer.
Money Talks. And no one in Australia has more than Gina Rinehart, a billionaire twenty times over. But can she use that money to buy influence over two of Australia's most famous newspapers?
Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's got his eye on a prize bigger than his Pilbara mine: the chance to pip fellow rock kickers Gina Rinehart and Clive Palmer in the race to be labelled one of Australia's National Living Treasures.
Get ready Sydney. Billionaire Bill Gates and family have decided to spend their Christmas holidays in the harbour city. The world's second richest man, along with his wife and three kids, will spend a month in Sydney renting out a $25,000-a-week mansion in Vaucluse.
Kim Williams is the new boss of Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd. But we reckon playing second fiddle to Murdoch will be a tough gig for this one-time composer.
Mining billionaire and freshly-elected Channel Ten director Gina Rinehart has pleaded with Andrew Bolt to continue hosting The Bolt Report in 2012 despite the show's dismal ratings performance.
Not sure whether One.Tel’s special purpose liquidator Paul Weston is Rasputin or Dracula, but he’s certainly proving hard to kill. More than ten years after Jodee Rich’s fabulous phone company collapsed with close to $1 billion of the Packers’ and Murdochs’ money, Weston has risen again to threaten another legal action for damages.
James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch are off the hook at last on One.Tel and won't be chased for $244 million in damages, thanks to a landmark decision in the NSW Supreme Court this morning.