A typo somewhere?
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It appears I’m going back on my own word already! Spotted, and fixed. 
At least Ten are still able to operate like normal unlike in the early 1990s.
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I also would prefer that Gordon and/or Murdoch don’t buy any further into Ten and possibly take over.
I would hate it even more if an oversees conglomerate like CBS with no interest in Australia or Australian content take over and fill it with there own cheap shows. Do we really want 3 channel 11’s (or Ch 94 which I still have never watched) ??
I realize that there would be minimum Oz Content quota’s for the main channel, but it would probably end up just that and no more. My vote is to keep it Oz owned and operated if at all possible !!
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Important to remember that Ten was majority owned by the former Canadian media conglomerate Canwest for 17 years without anyone screaming about foreign ownership.
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I’m just hoping, and most of us are, that Bruce Gordon and Murdoch don’t take control, and that the new owners can do a better job at operating it well corporately and content wise as well. Foreign Ownership worked once without too much fuss, and it can again while still keep their Aussie image. Aussie owners would be great too. 
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You dropped this \
Ten were still able to operate though? It’s not like they went off the air. They just operated sans the excessive game shows.
Why would that be the case?
Viacom bought Channel 5 in the UK and beefed up local production, because it’s in their best interests to make money through a successfully rating TV network.
Murdoch is an American citizen, and gave up his Australian citizenship to expand his empire. Any notion that a WIN+News Corp bid is more “fair dinkum” than any other bid is crazy.
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Not to mention Bruce lives in Bermuda.
I’m sure CBS will want to make money if their take over is successful and the only way to make money in Australian tv is to produce local content and lots of it. We have moved on from the danger of foreign investment in media. All the other private equity bidders are foreign anyway and they are not media companies so they would be more inclined to gut the place where as cbs is a big media conglomerate that know the value of scale and would invest heavily in content.
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Surely CBS buying will be win win (no pun intended) as they will invest in local production and that can be used overseas on their own networks whilst they use their overseas product here as well.
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And, just as importantly, no thought of changing the name of the network to Ten to Global.
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Could a CBS purchase mean the return of Big Brother?
Hopefully. It is my favourite reality show and surely it would rate better or about the same as I am a Celeb and Survivor are doing now. It has always done well in the younger demos too. Anything would be better than Nine’s abomination of Big Brother in its last two seasons.
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Who knows! I think it has more pulling power on Ten than surivior does. Ten did it well Nine screwed It up.
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AFR reports bids due for Ten by August 18. Administrator and receiver hope to have a deal in place by the end of August when the last of $30million funding runs out.
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Just been reading reports about CBS taking their CBS All Access SVOD service global. It’s launching in Canada early next year with plans to launch in “other markets in multiple continents around the world”. I’m surprised by the reported growth of the service in the US and the amount of premium original content they’ve invested in just for the service. CBS’s acquisition of Ten would certainly be a great launching pad for All Access in Australia.
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But doesn’t CBS has an existing deal with Stan at the moment? Even if CBS All Access launches in Australia next year some shows may not be available at the launch.
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Not really…
Good Fight went to SBS and Star Trek is going to Netflix. So CBS All Access seems to be on the open market.
Stan’s deal looks like CBS Television Studios. CBS International Distribution and the like.
As is the case with other steaming networks, is it not? It’s not like they have much original all access programming anyway and could be contingent on whatever happens with their output deal with Ten.
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If the rumour is true then CBS would have to look at phasing in content once existing contracts expire, perhaps changing those to be non-exclusive (e.g. Netflix can have something a little while after CBS themselves so they keep a temporary exclusive).
Same as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix before it; they now have more content than when they started here.
For all we know cbs might turn around say ten are fucked and can’t make it work and someone else might win the bid.
At least there is a major media company interested. The equity players will be good for money management but they are interested in the media business per se.
As for Murdoch and Gordon… they just want to wreck the joint.
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