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INSIDE THE NEW MAGAZINE
Mediaweek #878
August 25, 2008
 Spectator
Our cameras go to the Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Of The Year awards and hang out with the Alpha caravan with some (Sydney) Swans at the SCG.
 Top Stories
With the Beijing Olympics drawing to a close, MCN CEO Anthony Fitzgerald explains how the 2012 London games – to be shared between Nine and Foxtel – will all be about multichannelling and “a greater level of choice” than Seven offered this time round.
 Media Buzz
Germaine Greer outrates Fatty Vautin, Alpha unveils some very “masculine” research, Jack Thompson returns to FTA, Merrick & Rosso go to The Comedy Channel with the help of Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan, High School Musical 4 gets the greenlight and the Mediaweek team storms its way into The Weather Channel.
 The Media Week
Seven bows out as an Olympics broadcaster, but Foxtel and Nine get set to step into the fray; a familiar face joins the Foxtel exec ranks; ABC Local Radio’s Charlie King on reporting from Beijing; plus why confusion in the Brisbane radio market might have affected ratings for the Today network's Hamish and Andy and Nova’s Dan and Ken
 Person Of The Week
Ryan Rathbone
Program Director
Nova 106.9 Brisbane
 Media People
News of appointments at BBC Worldwide, A&E Television, GfK, Text Pacific, Vice magazine, GetPrice.com.au, Audit Bureau of Circulations and Circulations Audit Board, SBS, Win Corporation and Foxtel.
 Inside Digital Media
We meet the men behind travel comparison site Wego.com.au – CEO Martin Symes – and the GM/co-founder of Disney’s social networking site for kids, Club Penguin, Lane Merrifield. Plus news from BigPond’s big music deal and Ansearch’s Australian first.
 Inside Radio
Interviews with four ABC Radio broadcasters at the Beijing Games – Tracey Holmes, David Morrow, Gerry Collins and Glenn Mitchell. Plus our AirCheck data on the most played ads in the Sydney. Melbourne and Brisbane markets.
 Inside Magazines
Australian Geographic’s editorial director, Dee Nolan, tells us why the magazine has become such a collectable since it was started by Dick Smith over two decades ago. We also have the news of more staff appointments for News Magazines’ upcoming local version of Glamour.
 Inside Newspapers
Career journalist Sandra Hall talks to us about her new book, Tabloid Man: the Life and Times of Ezra Norton, as well as her own career in newspapers and as a freelancer.
 Inside Television
Seven plans to rely on observational documentaries and factual series to help drive its post-games ratings. We speak to Crash Investigation Unit exec producer Dan Meenan and executive producer of Find My Family, John Rudd, about their shows. Plus the week’s top 100 OzTam shows, network shares, who won the week in metro, regional and Tasmania, and AGB Nielsen Media Research’s regional TV charts, plus the top 20 rating shows for the week in NZ, UK and the US
 Inside Subscription TV
We speak to two more Sky News journos on the ground in Beijing for the Olympics – Susanne Latimore and Eric Young. We have news from Fox Sports, Disney Channel, UKTV and Arena, plus the week’s top 50 subscription TV shows as compiled by OzTAM and our at-your-fingertips channel ratings guide.
 Entertainment Media
Interviews this week with Sneaky Sound System on the eve of the release of their new “2” album and Q Music’s Stephen Green on the upcoming Big Sound Music Industry Summit and Showcase 2008. Plus the MPDAA top 20 box office chart, ARIA top 20 singles and albums, GfK top 20 DVD chart for the week, Hitwise’s Top 20 news & media sites and “the entertainment buzz” – the stories the biz was buzzing about this week.
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