I listen to Alan for pure entertainment. He interviewed the PM this morning and accidentally called him “Scott” before correcting himself.
The interview with the voiceover guy was Alan at his best. His agreement with open-line caller Stephanie last week was him at his lowest. As for Alan’s promotion of Mark Latham? Appalling. Latham is unhinged and Alan wants him in the NSW Upper House. Vomit. Spew.
Usually Stephanie is just too political and best left for 6am to 630am timeslot if she has to speak. Certainly his chat with Ian Fulton was most entertaining.
Haven’t listened to Jones for more than a couple of minutes for many years. When I used to listen to him I think his best interviews were after 8:00am when he generally had on an entertainer plugging something. Jones (or an offsider) always did his research so he knew what to ask. The rest of his show was the usual shouting at somebody, and he’s gotten worse as he has aged.
Macquarie Media has released its half year company results for 2019, with Underlying Net Profit (NPAT) down 6% on last year.
Statutory EBITDA, an ‘apples with apples’ comparison requirement from the stock exchange, was down 45% ($6 million), but this includes a range of one-off significant items such as impairment, legal claims and property.
Its interesting what makes news. Listening to SWR who takes Macquarie News, the sports report was Michael Vaughn says David Warner should bat in middle order when returning to the cricket team. Is that sports news ?Or just an opinion you hear in commentary? I guess thats my main complaint of the macquarie news, too many one liners with no background contex and not really news in my view although I do like cricket.
The hourly “Macquarie National News” on 2GB, 3AW, etc could become “Nine Radio News” or even “National Nine News” if they really wanted to push the Nine News branding.
Merging the news rooms may save some staff, but a lot would still need to be retained - Even just scripting and reading news bulletins 24/7 takes a significant amount of man power that - even if the stories were sourced centrally.
I think a Nine News service on radio would have some journalists doing reports for both TV & radio, but otherwise remain separate entities in the same way that The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age will most likely continue to have different reporters to Nine News on TV and Nine News online, etc.