what were you expecting? There was never going to be any significant uplift in services.
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Nothing more than shoring up their revenue from regional contracts that were in the firing line. In time as operational contracts expire, no doubt they will consolidate those further with their metro business.
Amazing how they say the return of local news to Brisbane, quite the statement considering they always had local news there, just that the production was moved and integrated to Sydney due to budgetary pressures.
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Thought thereâd be some small uplift in noodle updates or a regional window in metro bulletins for our regional friends (wishful thinking I know) or at least the roll-out of Nickelodeon & BOLD HD.
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Iâd be surprised if Bold and all the channels werenât fixed up in the next few years, but it is up to Ten to decide how to allocate their expenditure and decide whether it is worth it. The press release indicates Ten arenât interested and would rather push people onto their Play product.
Itâs only been a few weeks since the sale was done, so it might be some time before they try to find ways to integrate metro and regional news capabilities, but at least it gives current regional news teams some stability for now.
I think any roll-out of more channels to these regional areas would be very wishful thinking. There just isnât the ad market to support them.
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How does acquiring those regional licenseâs reinforce their regional commitment? Yes itâs purely strategic, but it reinforces their bottom line at the end of the day with taking home more of the ad $$.
Fact is theyâve never really cared about regional audiences previously, and by all accounts have no plans to add any immediate value (full suite of channels, broadcast output, quality of news updates) to regional audiences with their investment here.
Sort of reads to me like it was perhaps written with the assistance of AI, no real new information, and really just sounds like a puff piece for 10.
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Isnât Nick already in SCA markets (its only the WIN markets that donât have it)?
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Believe so, just the WIN and joint venture markets.
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Yeah, some of it didnât make a lot of sense ânews updates staff were integrated into the relevant Paramount divisionsâ.
Not sure want this even means.
Yeah I noticed that too, I donât think those teams have been integrated?
My understanding was that Paramount have a supply agreement with SCA to keep producing the updates - especially while SCA are (for now) still producing the 7 Tas bulletin.
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It means what I said.
The people that worked for SCA on the news updates have now been integrated into Paramount and are now Paramount staff. There were other staff that SCA had that were not associated with the specific news updates that were kept by SCA.
Exactly
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Interesting comments re YouTube. Late news, other clips must be making them some money vs keeping content exclusively on their own channels and expensive investment in their own news site etc.
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Will be interesting to see if the FCC imposes any weird additional Trump era conditions on the merger such as further DEI requirements. Thatâs assuming of course that DOGE donât get to the FCC first.
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/fcc-dei-media-mergers-trump
Paramount U.S already publicly dropped itâs DEI policies, supposedly to avoid this very issue.
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Here is the podcast with Dan Monaghan. I did ask about the Friends / Big Bang model and he does give away when the big shows will be landing (whether Q2, Q3, etc). Apologies about the couple of glitches
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