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INSIDE THE NEW MAGAZINE
Mediaweek #891, November 24, 2008
Top Story
 We bring you the highlights of last week’s SPAA Conference on the Gold Coast – the future of the ABC and SBS, new content in children’s TV and how to make money from the web from the man who perhaps knows best!
Media Buzz
UKTV’s case study of a great launch for Screentime’s False Witness, The Harvey Norman Charity Media Challenge, Universal Magazines responds to an unhappy blogger, TEN’s summer programming slate, Inside Sports gets wet with Stephanie Rice and the storm over Australia.
Person Of The Week
Alison Veness-McGourty
editor
Grazia, ACP Magazines
Spectator
Our cameras on duty at the final Rove of 2008 – see TEN’s chief programming officer, David Mott, give good photo…again and again!
Media People
 News of executive appointments at Nickelodeon, Turner Entertainment Networks, News Limited, ninemsn, Fairfax Digital and we speak to Sky News’ Ian Ferguson on how they’d added some new tricks this year, but are committed to quality journalism.
Inside Digital Media
 Google’s head of corporate affairs, Rob Shilkin, talks deals, directions and difficult times. We also have digital bytes from Getprice.com.au, MySpace, AD2ZONE, Yahoo!7 and the REA Group.
Inside Outdoor
 Media i launches and co-founder Charles Parry-Okeden tells us about the new digital screen network, which is something of a global first. We also report on changes at oOh!media and a new appointment at Eye Fly Melbourne.
Inside Radio
Austero Brisbane GM Richard Barker talks up his stations, who won the station manager of the year award at the ACRAS and who’s taking a break over summer. We also carry the AirCheck listings of the most played ads in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Inside Magazines
 Cosmo editor Bronwyn McCahon on the new-look mag, Julia Zaetta on Family Circle’s Christmas special, VW Media’s Marijcke Thomson on their new title, Tracks and Waves’ new deal with Fuel TV and a website and Future Pushing Australia’s new title.
Inside Newspapers
 The Sunday Times’ Sam Weir on how the News Limited title is battling both West Australian Newspapers and Fairfax and still coming up trumps both in print and online editions.
Plus who won what at the WA Media Awards earlier this month.
Inside Television
ITV’s content king, Lee Bartlett, on formats that work and what he wants to sell to Australia. We also have more of the highlights from last week’s SPAA Conference including – why Aussie kids shows are so good, what’s wrong with Australian films and The Comedy Channel’s pitching competition.
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, and the top 20 rating shows for the week in NZ, UK and the US.
Inside Subscription TV
 At last week’s SPAA Conference both The Comedy Channel and Nickelodeon handed out $25,000 a piece for potential new shows and we reveal the winners. We also report on Foxtel’s big summer programming line-up, plus news from Disney Channels. Max, XYZnetworks, C&I Network and why André Rieu is Foxtel’s favourite son at the moment. Plus the week’s top 50 subscription TV shows as compiled by OzTAM and our at-your-fingertips channel ratings guide.
Entertainment Media
We also have our weekly “entertainment buzz”, the hot stories the biz was buzzing about, we interview Sony BMG’s Katie Noonan, plus the MPDAA top 20 box office chart, ARIA top 20 singles and albums, GfK top 20 DVD chart for the week and Hitwise’s Top 20 men’s sites.
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