Ten should look at the Olympics next. Up for grabs from 2020.
2022 would be the first games they could nab. But unfortunately seven have a first option to extend their current contract.
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But other places like Darwin, Central Australia regions (Mt Isa, Alice Springs, Coober Pedy) still have ONE as HD channel.
Probably SD upconverted to HD in those regions, because AFAIK Ten only outputs One in SD unlike Seven & Nine which do provide HD feeds of their multichannels (7mate and 9Gem at least anyway) to the affiliates.
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Maybe Ten could try and nab the rights to 2019 AFC Asian Cup Soccer, now that the network doesn’t own the Cricket rights in the months of January & February. The 2015 AFC Asian Cup did really well on the ABC. It could prove to be ratings king or a ratings dud, that’s if the Socceroos makes it to the grand final.
It’s in the UAE, so matches will be any time from 9pm to 3am. The 2015 audition had the benefit of being in a good timezone in Australia.
here’s the thing, Perth will have it in the best time zone possible. When you say 3am, do you mean the kick off will start at that time?
It’s a rough guestimate. If you have games starting at 4-6-8pm in the UAE (as happens with the world cup), said games would start at 10pm, 12am and 2am AEST.
Perth will get it at 8pm, 10pm and midnight, but at the same time, the Ten network is bigger than Perth. Unfortunately the west coast isn’t quite big enough to demand favourable time zones like the US.
Unfortunately fox will probably have the rights and won’t let tem nab anything. And if it’s a simulcast deal it’s an instant failure.
On another note, do we see Ten moving its studios in Sydney or Melbourne?
Good lord 
All those sound awful.
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6pm to midnight here in Perth
There’s a game show in the US hosted by Ellen degeneres that just has her doing all sorts of fun games like a kid imagined it…kinda like a Japanese game show. That would be different for a Australian network . It’s called Ellen’s game of games
Hmm lets see.
Dump the news shows aimed at morons that need to be told what to think and when to think it. Most certainly do not add another superfluous host that was only hired in a pissing match against a rival network and if you still can’t get the ratings by trotting out silly little kids trying to be cute then maybe it’s time for the scrap heap.
Stop focusing on such a narrow demographic. Love sick women pining after a ‘hunky’ guy with abs will only get you so far. It will certainly fail faster when you clog the schedule with the same repetitive trash throughout the year.
A quarter through the year and no Australian drama from Ten. I actually expected CBS to deliver on Australian drama, but its very obvious Ten is just an outpost for CBS to air their rotting corpses of procedural junk for international syndication. An 8 episode drama. No please, don’t put yourself out Ten.
As for the stupid pilot season. What a great gimmick that lets them off the hook of producing a decent amount of drama for a year. Anything to save those $$$$.
Ten out of all the networks sticks with shows that are borderline okay in ratings or simply awful far too long in the vain hope it will attract viewers. They won’t Ten. It’s all good and well to want consistency but if the shows aren’t bringing it, then find something that will.
If Ten were to change anything such as the early evening like some have alluded to, then I would keep the 5pm bulletin and make it a half hour 5pm national bulletin then follow it with Game shows (possibly Family feud teamed up with another game show) or other entertainment for 1 hour, followed by a 6:30pm state based bulletin and The Project at 7pm.
Arguments for changing the schedule is a 6:30pm would be capturing viewers who arrive home around 6:15pm to 6:30pm with the news of the day as opposed to the other networks who have aired their top stories at the top of the bulletin. Also reducing the 5pm news to half an hour would be that you do not give viewers news overload. The half hour of news/current affairs time/money saved could be diverted to a morning program, making a News based program and Studio 10 at least a 4 hour block of programming
Arguments against changing the schedule is why mess with a familiar schedule that people are used to? rates ok and limits the massacre that could happen between 6pm and 7pm.
I am leaning towards maintaining the current offerings
You want to shorten or change the most successful parts of early evening (news and The Project) and try and launch something else? Hmm, doesn’t sound wise.
Then Ten should enjoy losing money and coming in fourth regularly. Their offerings simply aren’t competitive.
The Project at 6:30 is not a success and The Project at 7:00pm comes in fourth with okay demos. Just because it’s a success for Ten, who has very low standards at the moment, doesn’t make it a success. If you aren’t gaining momentum or gaining new viewers then you have to look at the schedule and see what could be hindering progress.
Ten could at least do some small tinkering or a test run for something.
I think ten have bigger issues than The Project and The News. Focus on other issues before changing that one. Who knows fix the other holes and they might start gaining more momentum.
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I don’t want to change it, I am just saying if you did that, you would investigate pairing something with Family Feud or launching something completely different
Honestly, the second half of The Project makes up for the lower rating in the first half hour - which is against sports news on Seven and Nine - something you will not beat unless you have a comparable product and even then, its like in the supermarket stakes Aldi coming in against Woolworths and Coles. Aldi will probably never be number 1, but it could become number 2 with a sensible strategy.
This quote obviously refers to The Project, which given it airs 6 days a week, often with predictions it will go to 7 days a week in the long term needs additional talent.
As I said in previous post, keen it as is - there is no need to massacre new programming. Eventually family Feud will need to be replaced, but at present it seems to be doing ok. Maybe longer term, if Blind Date initially started as a one night a week program, it could be slated as a 5 day a week program to replace Family Feud in the medium to long term, Family Feud will probably need replacing in the next 3 to 5 years - especially given on each outing of Family Feud (except Berts Family Feud only ran in 2006-2007), it has lasted for 8 to 9 years.
Family Feud/Berts Family Feud previous runs( 1977-84/1988-96/2006-07)
Nine Network 1977–1984
Seven Network 1988–1996
Bert’s Family Feud Nine Network 2006–2007
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