I did wonder at the time if WIN bought NRN in the hope they would somehow get the Nine affiliation in Northern NSW. I know they were a Ten affiliate at the time, the only other logic I can see for them buying it is to spread their network cost base eg, management across more markets?
The importance of NRN was to get the whole east coast for national sales as it was a significant missing link for them.
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That would have been quite some optimism given that the NNSW Nine outlet there is owned by Nine.
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WIN was heavily invested in TEN at the time, and this was not long before TEN went into administration and WIN tried to buy them out. They could probably see the writing on the wall at TN and if they were to be successful in buying TEN didn’t want to be left with NRN being basically the only regional market they didn’t own.
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The Australian
Kerri-Anne Kennerley takes aim at Nine, as more dirt emerges
Kerri-Anne Kennerley, one of Channel 9’s most loved on-air personalities, has excoriated her former employer over its “entrenched” culture of bullying and intimidation, as further allegations emerge of serious misconduct by senior network executives.
“History has just repeated itself,” Kennerley said.
“I experienced the Nine culture, professionally and personally, over decades, and it is learned behaviour. Bad behaviour and bad management skills, or lack of them, was wrong, it always was wrong, but the perpetrators got away with it because they learned from senior management.
“It was entrenched by senior people (who had gone) before them.”
Covered by Sunrise this morning.
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I wonder in the near future we will see Nine and WIN become merged into one company?
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Agree, only a matter of time I think.
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Will shirtfronting a journalist be Peter Costello’s legacy?
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Safework NSW is looking into the allegations specifically in Nine’s Sydney office.
A Safework NSW spokesperson told Mumbrella in a statement: “SafeWork NSW is making inquiries into the recent allegations involving Nine Entertainment. SafeWork NSW has not received a complaint at this stage.”
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Nine has quietly removed its chief information and technology officer, Memo Hayek.
Hayek’s redundancy was confirmed to Mumbrella by Nine, and is the result of a merger between the network’s product engineering and product management teams.
Bec Haagsma will lead this newly-formed organisation.
Herald reporting up to 200 roles gone:
- 90 in publishing
- 38 in 9 Newscaff
Trying to find $30m in savings
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I wonder how far away we are from cutting all sports and weather presenters from networks.
Anchors really are capable of reading the sports and weather let’s be honest here.
As discussed in the Nine News area
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What do you have against sport and weather presenters?
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10 runs as a barebones skeleton and they still have sports and weather presenters
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Nothing. Once again you read things that aren’t there.
If cuts have to be made I’m just saying might be better to cut roles that others are capable of doing and don’t have to be replaced.
Times are tough.
Maybe have one sports reader read and insert it into all bulletins?
I’m just making suggestions for cuts.
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They have 5 over 7 days compared to 7/9 and who have weekday and weekend presenters in all states.