By Ray Martin, The Australian
YOU’VE gotta love your mates in the media. Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good headline, such as "Martin storms out".
If
you can’t get a proper quote, go for those reliable "unnamed sources".
If there’s no photo for the front page, drag a 20-year-old snapshot out
of the Fairfax picture archives. (When I had legs.)
You gotta laugh. So, in my movement at the station, let’s separate fact from fiction.
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Michael Bodey
| February 14, 2008
After
a 100-day lockdown of Hollywood, guild members yesterday voted to
accept a new agreement that supplied a number of improvements,
including a 2per cent to 3 per cent payment of gross receipts for work
that is streamed live on the internet (albeit after a window of 17 to
24 days)
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Source: Lara Sinclair, The Australian
The
US network is understood to have spent up to $3 million to fund the
online drama and global viral advertising campaign called Find 815,
which stars Australian actors Rodger Corser, who appears in Nine’s
gangland drama Underbelly, and Aden Young.
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Source: Milanda Rout, The Australian
THE
premiere of gangland drama Underbelly in Victoria tomorrow night hangs
in the balance, with a Supreme Court judge to decide whether the series
goes to air just 36 hours before its scheduled screening.
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Source: John Davidson, Adnews
SYDNEY: Network Ten has pulled off another sporting coup, beating the Nine Network and Fox Sports for the exclusive rights to the Indian Premier League (IPL).
In a five-year deal, tipped to have cost between $10 million to $20 million, Ten has secured the rights to the new Twenty20 cricket competition which will feature the best cricket players from around the world.
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Suddenly the once crowded Hunter advertising ranks are looking decidedly thinner, with another Newcastle advertising agency closing shop. The Boutique Agency was a partnership between well-known media identity Deb Austin and Tim Neve. The agency ran for 5 years before shutting its doors at the end of January 2008.
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Source: Media Spy, AP
Leaders
of Hollywood’s screenwriters union had endorsed a deal to end the
entertainment industry’s bitter three-month long strike, union
officials said today.
Writers Guild of America board members in New York
and Los Angeles approved the new contract after meeting today and will
now hold a vote of the union’s members early next week to approve the
decision.
With widespread support for the agreement, writers are expected to
be back at their keyboards by Thursday, bringing to a close the most
serious labour dispute to hit the US entertainment industry in decades.
Writers went on strike on November 5, forcing the postponement or
cancellation of several popular television shows and movies, and
causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
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The summer silly season grinds to a halt this weekend as the formal TV ratings system kicks back into gear for 2008. And what an intriguing year it promises to be in the Hunter ratings race, with plenty of anticipation and uncertainty.
2007 ended with NBN winning every ratings week, but looking nervously over their shoulders as Prime came within a whisker of taking their first ever non-Olympics winning weeks. While NBN claimed the mantle of ratings winners, it seemed Prime were a lot happier, having stitched up the 25-54 audience against NBN’s aging viewers. SC Ten finished the year a little stronger and performed well in their target audience of 16-39 years. It set up an eagerly awaited battle for 2008.
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Source: Michael Idato, Sydney Morning Herald
After three decades, veteran journalist Ray Martin has quit the
Nine Network.
Martin confirmed his departure this afternoon, but insisted the
split with his employer of 30 years was "the most amicable".
He said there was "no shouting, no trouble. [Nine CEO] David
Gyngell is a very good friend of mine, and we were very
amicable."
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Source: Mark Buttler and Mark Dunn, heraldsun.com.au
THE future of Channel 9′s (NBN in Newcastle) $13 million series Underbelly could be decided by last-minute legal proceedings beginning today.
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Jeremy Rapke, QC, has secured an urgent viewing of the series before he decides whether to seek an injunction stopping its broadcast in Victoria.
A Supreme Court judge called prosecutors and defence lawyers together after serious concerns were raised about whether the show could prejudice a jury for the trial this year of a man who has pleaded not guilty to a gangland killing.
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