I posted the news on Pacific Magazines thread a few days ago. He will be working for Herald and Weekly Times.
Seven West Media becomes strategic investor in Draftstars, the leading Australian daily fantasy sports start-up
Seven West Media today announced its investment in Draftstars, Australia’s leading daily fantasy start-up. Draftstars is a joint venture between Seven West Media, CrownBet and Fox Sports, and is the official daily fantasy sports partner of the Australian Football League.
Seven West Media has secured a 33 per cent shareholding and will provide media support, product development and investment to further drive brand awareness and usage in an integrated media campaign across all Seven’s leading content brands.
Draftstars was founded in March 2016 by CrownBet and FoxSports and is led by CEO Matt Sanders.
Tim Worner, Managing Director and CEO of Seven West Media, said: “We are delighted to partner with CrownBet and FoxSports in Draftstars. Our investment builds on our strategy of leveraging the power of our media assets to scale early stage businesses. Draftstars is an exciting investment for our company and we look forward to working with them and our investment partners in driving brand awareness and engagement.”
Commenting, Clive Dickens, Seven West Media’s Chief Digital Officer said: “Seven West Media is constantly looking at ways in which we can engage our large sports audiences on mobile. Draftstars will soon launch EPL and Cricket to complement its existing range of highly-engaging contests across AFL, NRL, NFL and NBA. It is a highly scalable, mobile product and platform that is backed by powerful partners, each of which provide strong competitive advantages,” Mr Dickens said.
Draftstars CEO Matt Sanders said: “We’re thrilled to have Seven West Media come on board in time for the AFL finals and add their experience and audience to our engaging digital product.”
“The partnership of Seven West Media, Fox Sports and CrownBet boasts the strongest-possible set of assets to bring this exciting new, simpler, quicker and more engaging form of entertainment to Australian sports fans,” Mr Sanders said.
What a load of nonsense.
Seven West Media welcomes regulatory approval for the acquisition of Perth Now and The Sunday Times
Seven West Media today welcomed regulatory approval from the ACCC for Seven West Media to acquire Perth Now and The Sunday Times from News Corporation, and will now proceed to finalise negotiations.
Commenting on the ACCC green light, the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Seven West Media, Tim Worner, said: “We are genuinely excited about this acquisition. We will have great assets which undoubtedly build on our commitment to delivering the very best news coverage and content to the people of Western Australia.
“The Sunday Times and Perth Now are great brands. There is a strong bond between them and the people of Western Australia. The Sunday Times has a unique heritage and we will nurture both The Sunday Times and Perth Now for the benefit of all our readers.
“We wish to acknowledge the great work of News Corporation in growing and building these businesses and are mindful that it was Rupert Murdoch’s second acquisition and dear to his heart. We will be worthy custodians.
“Seven West Media is the natural home of these assets as we further build their publishing and digital presence. We look forward to finalising the agreement and ensuring a positive and growing future for The Sunday Times and Perth Now as they continue to be part of the fabric of Western Australia.
“We are about building our media business and ensuring we continue to deliver strong local and relevant content to our audiences. The underlying imperative in this agreement was to place our company in a stronger position to compete with the increasing presence of global content and platform businesses in our market. For us, this is a once in a company lifetime opportunity and that is the way we are going to approach it,” Mr Worner said.
Seven West Media expects the investment to be earnings accretive in its first year and to increase shareholder value for the group.
Commenting, the Chief Executive Officer of Seven West Media (WA), Chris Wharton, said: “The acquisition of Perth Now and The Sunday Times is a positive for our audiences and our company. Our integration of Channel Seven Perth, The West and our online businesses into the one media centre is delivering significant results. Perth Now and The Sunday Times deliver audiences complementary to those we are delivering with The West. This agreement will expand our audiences and further enhance the presence of Perth Now and The Sunday Times in our market.”
As part of the agreement, Seven West Media and News Corporation will also build on a news content sharing agreement for The West Australian with News’ daily brands in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Seven West Media and News Corporation are also joint venture partners in the Community Newspaper Group in Western Australia.
The agreement delivers significant opportunities for Seven West Media’s development in the Western Australian market with Perth Now joining the company’s existing digital platforms. The acquisition will see the company expanding its publishing and printing from six days to seven days a week and will deliver improvements in scale benefits and print cost synergies for Seven West Media’s businesses in Western Australia.
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Pacific Magazines appoints CEO
Seven West Media today confirmed the appointment of Gereurd Roberts as CEO of Pacific Magazines. Mr Roberts will report to Tim Worner, CEO and Managing Director of Seven West Media.
Mr Roberts is currently General Manager, Food Family and Home at Pacific Magazines. He has nearly two decades of publishing experience including roles at Guardian News and Media, ACP Magazines (now Bauer Media) and as an editor, publisher and Commercial Director prior to his most recent role at Pacific Magazines.
Commenting, Mr Worner said: “Gereurd has done a tremendous job leading advertising sales, client services, digital sales and new opportunities to extend and build our portfolio of publishing brands. He is well-placed to continue to create and deliver new opportunities that will underpin Pacific Magazines’ brands in a dynamic and changing market. Pacific Magazines continues to transform its business beyond the pages of a magazine across digital, social media and events. It has put in place the cornerstones for its future. Our titles are out-performing their peers in readership and circulation, we are building share through new online platforms, and we taking advantage of a changing landscape as our magazine brands continue to transition beyond print into Social Media, Digital Video, eCommerce and live events.”
Mr Roberts comments: “We have the country’s best brands, management team and people at Pacific. And with the support of Australia’s largest and best-performing integrated media group, Seven West Media, we are ideally positioned for future growth.
“It’s a privilege to take this role at such a pivotal and exciting time for Pacific. I look forward to working with our exceptionally talented teams to continue our transformation process, driving growth in our core business, fuelling new revenue and commercial outcomes for our company.”
Statement from Seven West that Presto will close on 31 January 2017
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Shame we had to hear about it for so long on Seven.
New Community Newspaper Group Chief Executive announced
Seven West Media (WA) chief executive officer and chairman of Community Newspaper Group, Chris
Wharton, today announced Paul Eteen-Bliss had been appointed to the role of chief executive officer
of Community Newspaper Group (CNG).
Paul is currently general manager of Quest Community News in Brisbane and a highly experienced and
respected executive in community and metropolitan publishing.
Mr Wharton said: “Paul brings more than 25 years of print and digital media industry experience to
this role and I am excited about the energy, innovation and ambition he will deliver to the
Community Newspaper Group. I wish him every success in his new role.”
Mr Eteen-Bliss will be responsible for delivering better outcomes for the readers and advertisers
who engage with the 17 community titles that make up the portfolio within the Community Newspaper
Group.
During an 11-year career with News Corp Australia, Mr Eteen-Bliss has held a number of senior
positions including general manager Far North Queensland and advertising director at The
Courier-Mail and The Sunday Mail in Brisbane. Prior to this, Mr Eteen- Bliss worked for Newsquest
media group in London, leading the national and regional advertising sales teams for a variety of
national and metropolitan titles.
Mr Eteen-Bliss said: “I’m passionate about community news and look forward to building on the
goodwill CNG already has established with its existing readers and advertisers.”
Mr Eteen-Bliss replaces Alan Clyne who has been promoted to the position of chief operating officer
with Seven West Media (WA).
He will commence his new role in January 2017.
NEW EDITOR FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH
Pacific Magazines today announced the appointment of Jacqui Mooney as editor, Women’s Health.
Jackie Frank, General Manager, comments: “I am thrilled to have someone of Jacqui’s calibre take over the reins of Women’s Health. Her insights and expertise over the health category will see the brand confidently steered into its next phase.
“Jacqui’s vision will provide new opportunities for Women’s Health and ensure its incredibly passionate community continues to grow and engage. Living a healthy lifestyle has become both a personal and professional passion for Jacqui - and there’s no better candidate for this role.”
Jacqui has more than two decades of publishing experience in the health and women’s lifestyle space. She has previously worked as Deputy Editor of both CLEO and Dolly and as editor of Bride to Be and Weight Watchers. Most recently she was editor of Prevention magazine, Women’s Health’s healthy lifestyle Pacific Magazines stable-mate.
Jacqui Mooney says: “Women’s Health is more than a magazine. It’s a global brand and community with 24 international editions – and I couldn’t be more thrilled to lead its next chapter in Australia.
“I’ve devoted the past decade to creating content that helps women lead happier, healthier lives and Women’s Health is second to none. I look forward to working with the incredibly talented team to create engaging content across a range of platforms and build on the momentum created by initiatives like Next Fitness Star, Fit Night Out and I Support Women in Sport.”
Health is a key strategic pillar of the Pacific Magazines portfolio. As Australia’s number one health publisher, Pacific offers healthy-lifestyle multi-platform brands that reach an affluent, active and engaged audience.
Jacqui’s appointment is effective from December 5.
Seven West Media has named The West Australian deputy editor and head of digital content for SWM WA, Michael Beach, as the new editor of The Sunday Times. Beach will take up the role once SWM’s acquisition of The Sunday Times is complete. SWM has also appointed Seven Perth sales director Damien Hampson as revenue director, Seven West Media WA, effective immediately.
Great interview with chairman Kerry Stokes AC on 3AW’s Neil Mitchell morning program today.
I love it when he said “…they wouldn’t want to sue me, because they know what assets I have…”
What’s the story there?
I can’t quite remember the context, but when I heard him say that I giggled
Seven West Media has signed a content supply deal with Newzulu, allowing SWM to crowd-source videos and other content and stream from reporters’ phones. The deal covers Seven’s TV, newspapers, magazines and related digital platforms. Under the terms of the deal SWM will have the right to use Newzulu’s international crowd-sourced content in its newspapers, TV network and magazines and websites on a fee basis, while Newzulu will have the worldwide rights outside Australia to distribute both SWM’s professionally created and user-generated library on a revenue share basis.
##seven West Media signs contract to acquire The Sunday Times and PerthNow
Seven West Media Limited - one of Australia’s best-performing integrated media and content companies – today confirmed execution of a definitive purchase contract to acquire The Sunday Times newspaper and the online site PerthNow. Seven West Media expects the investment to be earnings accretive in its first year and to increase shareholder value for the group. The acquisition was approved by the ACCC in September and is expected to complete early next week.
Under the agreement to acquire The Sunday Times and PerthNow, Seven West Media and News Corporation will also build on a news content sharing agreement for The West Australian with News’ daily brands and mastheads in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart and the Northern Territory, and online. News Corporation will represent The Sunday Times and PerthNow advertising in the east coast markets.
Seven West Media and News Corporation are also joint venture partners in the Community Newspaper Group in Western Australia. Under the agreement, West Australian Newspapers will print and distribute The Australian and also Community Newspapers titles in the Western Australian market.
The first edition of The Sunday Times under Seven West Media ownership will be on 20 November 2016.
The new editor of The Sunday Times is Michael Beach. Beach is currently Deputy Editor of The West Australian and Head of Digital Content for Seven West Media WA. He is a Walkley Award-winning journalist and sits on the Walkley advisory board. West Australian Newspapers will also take on some editorial staff from The Sunday Times and PerthNow.
Tim Worner, CEO and Managing Director, Seven West Media, said: “We are proud to have The Sunday Times and PerthNow as part of our company. We have a deep and strong connection with Western Australia through Channel Seven and The West and our regional affiliates Prime. We look forward – as the new custodians of one of News Corporation’s first acquisitions - to a positive future for both The Sunday Times and PerthNow as part of the WAN group and are committed to ensuring both continue to resonate with the people of Western Australia. Our acquisition allows us to compete against the increasing presence of global content and we are determined to be the company that reflects the lives of all West Australians.”
Chris Wharton, Seven West Media WA CEO, said: “We are delighted to have both The Sunday Times and PerthNow in our stable. Both The Sunday Times and PerthNow deliver audiences complementary to those we are delivering with The West, and we intend to build on The Sunday Times and PerthNow’s already strong and deep connections with the people of Western Australia accessing the extensive resources of the integrated newsroom of The West and Channel Seven Perth.”
PerthNow will join Seven West Media’s existing and planned digital platforms in the Western Australian market. The acquisition will see the company expanding its publishing and printing from six days to seven days a week, a move which will deliver improvements in scale benefits and print cost synergies for Seven West Media’s businesses in Western Australia.
Actually today’s addition was printed from the west
Good article about the Seven Network’s Director of News & Current Affairs Craig McPherson…
When asked about Seven News:
“Sydney & Melbourne are the two biggest markets, we’re still not winning them… yet”.
FULL ARTICLE [MediaWeek]:
Link?
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This Monday’s paper still mentioned it was printed by Perth Print at Canning Vale. Also, according to its feature interview with new Sunday Times editor Michael Beach on the same day, the deal was finalised one week ago today (November 16). On Monday and Tuesday last week, The Sunday Times staff packed up their stuff and moved from the Stirling Street office in Perth CBD to The West Australian premises at Osborne Park. The Australian’s Perth office stays at Stirling Street.
Fantastic turn out to HSV-7’s 60th Anniversary 