according to The Daily Mail Australia Newsmax boss Christopher Ruddy will officially announce the launch of the U.S. cable channel’s new antipodean venture at an exclusive soiree he’s hosting on Friday in honour of Trump.
Presenters to include Erin Molan & Chris Smith with Lyle Shelton and Nick Cater on the wanted list.
I’m interested in who will be carrying this. UNless the agreement was signed with Foxtel prior to sale, i can’t see it on fox. perhaps fetch, but why? the audience isn’t on fetch. perhaps a mult channel?
My understanding is this is mainly a rebranding of ADH TV. I expect nobody will carry it at first and it will primarily be a streaming venture tied in with the US operation of Newsmax. Maybe they get a spot on Fetch or Foxtel down the track but that seems unlikely.
Newsmax in the US stopped free streaming of their main channel a while back. It now requires either a paid subscription to stream it, or a cable service which still carries it. Some of Newsmax 2 is streamed free which makes some sense considering a fair bit of Newsmax 2’s programming is simulcasts of talk radio shows which can be streamed free elsewhere anyway.
It’s probably worth noting that Jason Morrison (ex 2GB and Seven News Sydney) has a management role with ADH TV / Newsmax Australia.
ANd ADHt.tv now redirects to Newsmax Australia
Let’s hope it’s as big of a success as ADH was, how many presenters can be arrested this time?
Let’s face it, ADH was built around Alan Jones and never quite knew what it was outside a platform for him. They roped in some other right-wing pundits to prop up the content offering but it was always haphazard.
With Jason Morrison on board and a clear brand proposition with Newsmax, it has a better chance of gaining traction, especially if they can siphon of one or two more Sky hosts or commentators. But going down the streaming only route will be a tough slog in Australia. They’ll need some other supplementary carriage to build an audience.
Newsmax (the USA version) is already on Flash News, so I’d expect Newsmax Australia to end up there. Not sure about Foxtel as it would be a competitor to Sky News Australia.
I guess this is a temp gig until the Libs can parachute her into a safe seat?
Also, is Chris Smith barred from the liquor cabinet? 
Isn’t Flash owned by FOXTEL though?
She can do both, like her buddies at GB News. 
it is, but theres alot of news content on flash thats not on foxtel
Flash is also owned by Foxtel/Hubbl, so its a Sky competitor either way. Sky no doubt has it in the contract that it will be the sole Australian news channel on the Foxtel platform (Flash may be different), so I wouldn’t expect on Foxtel until their carriage contract expires.
Newsmax could still target a FTA digital channel too. Surely Paramount would give up spectrum and take the cash to takeover one of their underperforming multichannels. And Newsmax would barely compete with 10 News First
If NewsHaxx (let’s start with the names now) wants to be on any platform and are willing to pay for access, who are they to say no.
Yeah - gone. I’m surprised Flash hasn’t been absorbed into Binge with some content seen on Kayo. DAZN might get see what I’m saying and just do it.
They may not contractually be allowed to take on another Australian news channel. I don’t know for sure, but you’d hope their legal team would have baked that in.
I can’t imagine there’d be much of a subscriber base for Flash outside of this forum? I mean it’s well up my street but most people aren’t that bothered about news channels that they’d pay extra, surely?
Back in the 90s an attempted ABC news channel failed because Galaxy had collapsed and FOXTEL wouldn’t carry it.
I think it’s started. It’s not prominent or advertised, but if you look at the live channels on Binge, most of the Flash channels are now there. I’d say they’re letting DAZN kill off the seperate service.
You could be right, but then again, new management might see $$$ signs and say go for it.
Or, more than likely, they could just go in and charge an exhortation fee that those who are equally as cooked would pay and just go off and say what they want.
I tried it once, it wasn’t bad but the over promotion of the RWNJ stuff was a deal breaker.
Probably because it’s the ABC and Rupe doesn’t like the ABC?
About time. I know they still offer it when you work out the stack and save stuff, but you know it was high time it was put to sleep.
Again, it might be because Sky had the exclusive rights to operate a news channel on the service.
100%. When the new contract expires, DAZN could take both or make them bid/tender.
Yeah that’s what’s I’m saying. Plus Fairfax were involved… his other big rival.
DAZN won’t have any ownership of Sky News so it’ll be open to anyone who pays for carriage I suspect.
