Friday June 19, 2020
The Night Watch: News Corp national project launches this weekend
Right about now Mick Carroll should have been deep in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics which were scheduled to start in five weeks. Last December Carroll, editor of The Sunday Telegraph, was appointed News Corp’s Australia Olympic editor, working alongside Fox Sports’ Steve Crawley as the Olympic director, the two media executives were to oversee a team of 40+ heading to Tokyo to cover the games.
A lot has happened since then. The Olympics of course has been postponed and given what COVID-19 has done to the media business, a team of 40 going to cover any event in the future would seem unlikely.
News Corp meanwhile has kept Carroll very busy. Last month he was given the role of national weekend editor, meaning he oversees the Saturday and Sunday editions of The Telegraph, in addition to running lifestyle and entertainment content that can be used across the national network.
Carroll told Mediaweek his new role has two parts to it: “There’s a national remit, helping coordinate national investigations. I take control of the national lift-outs on Saturdays and Sundays, trying to get us to work better together, and to leverage our national reach a bit better.”
The move to take over editing the Saturday paper won’t happen until next month. “Saturday and Sunday are the most important days for our business, in terms of our revenue and readers,” said Carroll. “We are doubling down on premium content, and we’ve had a philosophy at The Sunday Telegraph to concentrate on event journalism. Topics not necessarily on the news cycle, but things that make people go, ‘Wow, what’s this about?’
“We are planning to do a lot more cooperative national stories, part ones, part twos, investigations together, campaigns together, just to add a bit more clout to what we do.”
Ahead of the move to take over both papers, Carroll and News Corp are looking to maximise weekend readership. “On Sundays we’ve discovered there’s a pretty substantial digital audience, and the best thing for us is, they seem to have the same philosophy of weekend news as the print readers do, in that they’re very engaged, they’re prepared to pay more, and they stick around longer. Their engagement times on Sunday have dramatically increased, and also their propensity to pay to subscribe is much greater, and we think that same philosophy would apply to Saturdays as well, particularly in the evenings.”
The Night Watch: Honouring those who keep us safe
A new weekend feature launching this week is a national project called The Night Watch. “It’s a celebration of the people who look after us while you sleep – ambos, firies, police officers, rural fire service, AFP officers – it’s a 12-part podcast, vodcast series, with a print execution, and it’s very good,” said Carroll. “We’ve singled out some high profile news events and will show readers how it affected the people who arrived there first. It investigates the personal toll those events have taken on the first responders, and the emergency services’ lives, families, friends.”
Carroll said the key creative leading the project is Nick Eagar. “He’s a digital picture editor and this was his idea, we gave him some journalistic support. He cut the project together and it’s come up very well. That’s kind of the territory we want to play in when we become a weekend offering.”
I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin
Ever since signing the former police officer earlier this year, News Corp has had much content from Gary Jubelin. Carroll told Mediaweek Jubelin has been working a lot with his Sunday deputy editor Claire Harvey. As well as contributing content for the Sunday edition, Jubelin is behind the I Catch Killers podcast. The series was originally promoted as running for six episodes, but so far they have published 13.
Escape gets a makeover as tourism fires up
The Sunday travel magazine Escape has a new team, and a new look magazine launches soon on Sundays, with a new look digital site to come pretty soon after.
“Through this whole period, we’ve tried to support the travel companies by keeping Escape going,” said Carroll. “Even though the advertising revenue wasn’t there, we kept it going just to say, ‘Look, we’re in this together, and we are going to come out of it’.”
Sunday magazines merging
Another big change coming for readers soon is when Body+Soul and Stellar cease appearing as separate magazines, morphing into a 2-in-1 flipbook publication under editor-in-chief Sarrah Le Marquand. That is planned to happen in July.
Next week: Editing Australia’s biggest-selling newspaper during COVID-19
Editor of The Age departs just days after receiving staff petition
“I’m sure you will join me in wishing Alex all the best and acknowledge his immense contribution to the masthead,” he told staff.
“Over the past three-and-a-half years The Age has expanded its subscriber base, grown its audience and represented the interests of its readers without fear or favour. The Age newsroom can feel confident about its future at a time much of the media industry faces uncertainty. This is, in large part, down to Alex’s hard work.”
Lavelle’s departure coincides with a petition signed by more than 50 staff calling for improved racial diversity at the paper and also that more key editorial decisions should be made from the Melbourne newsroom, not Sydney.
In addition to Lavelle, the petition was also sent to Chessell and chief publishing officer Chris Janz.
Lavelle took on the editorship of The Age in December 2016. He has been a part of the newsroom since 1999, working in many roles including news director and sports editor.
In his email to staff, Chessell noted The Age’s readership had grown from 3.3m to 5.3m under Lavelle. Along the way overtaking the Herald Sun in terms of total readership.
While the company searches for a replacement, Michelle Griffin has been appointed acting editor of The Age.
“External and internal candidates will be considered,” said Chessell. “I am seeking a strong leader who will fight hard for the masthead, our readers and the issues that affect all Victorians. It is imperative they maintain The Age’s independence and preserve its unparalleled track record of high-impact, public interest journalism.”
Executives depart after Beyond takes control at TCB Media Rights
Beyond Distribution and TCB will each continue to operate as separate full-service distribution businesses for the foreseeable future. The TCB senior management team will report directly to CEO & managing director of Beyond International, Mikael Borglund (pictured).
Paul Heaney commented: “We created an outstanding team at TCB, who in turn have built a solid creative and commercial community for both producers and buyers for which they should be very proud. We have an established culture and integrity that few would deny is exemplary in the unscripted distribution world. Both Dina and I wish each and every one of our colleagues the very best of success in the future, they truly deserve it. We would like to thank them for their endless hard work and support from TCB’s inception and especially through these recent uncertain times.”
Mikael Borglund added: “Paul, Dina and the management team have created a company with a strong reputation and catalogue. We all wish Paul and Dina well and look forward to continuing to work with the TCB team to further build the company.”
Radio and TV host in quarantine after she arrives back in Australia
Earlier in the week the co-hosts spoke with the show’s former co-host-turned-regular guest Kate Langbroek in Italy where she has been based for the past 18 months.
Langbroek was on a train travelling across Italy but wouldn’t reveal where she was headed. Yesterday on the program she revealed that train trip was in fact the start of a long journey back to Australia with her teenage son Lewis.
Speaking to Hughesy and Ed from her new home for the next fortnight, a Pullman hotel room in one of Australia’s capital cities, Langbroek explained the reason for her trip home was to visit her sick father.
She had the choice of a room with two beds in one room for herself and Lewis or the option of a suite with a private bedroom and another with a couch for her son. She chose the latter.
Langbroek said she and Lewis were two of about just 40 people on her international flight and she also described how spooky it was walking around a near-empty Dubai Airport.
Lewis also spoke to the two hosts about the challenges of being locked up with his mum in the same hotel suite for 14 days. “She never stops talking,” he shared.
Hughesy and Ed broadcasts on the Hit Network 5-7pm weekdays.
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Top Photo: Kate Langbroek was a recent guest on 10’s Have You Been Paying Attention?
Rocker hangs up on Moonman in the Morning’s Jess Eva after “best lover?” question
Today the show was poised to interview rock royalty, securing an interview with Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee. “He’s had a life we can only dream about,” said Lawrence Mooney before welcoming him onto the show. The interview was organised to help promote new singles that have just been released from a forthcoming solo album.
Mooney started asking about life in LA under lockup in these incredible times.
But co-host Jess Eva soon weighed in with her first question and it didn’t go well:
“You’ve been a hero to so many men around the world because you’ve romanced so many hotties in your time – Heather Locklear, Pamela Anderson, Naomi Campbell…out of all your lovers who was the best one?”
The line to LA suddenly went dead.
“Did he just hang up on me?” asked Eva.
Mooney explained: “I think we just got hung up on because you went into a no-go zone.”
Eva: “What was I meant to ask him? His favourite chocolate chip recipes?”
A rep from the music company then explained further: “We weren’t allowed to ask about his ex-wives.”
Eva: “I didn’t know that.”
After a delay and some off-air negotiating, Tommy Lee returned to the interview.
Moonman: “The satellite dropped out there, so let’s just move on.”
The interview seemed to proceed on safer ground when he returned with the rocker talking frankly about his drug-taking years and about spending time in rehab. But nothing about the ladies in his life!
The interview appears to have been pre-recorded which means the show did a great job of packaging it up as a live rockstar blow-up.
TV Week Logies replacement: Moonman behind new awards show
Australia’s meanest TV critic, Rudi Vanderstone, has emerged from quarantine to host the awards for entertainment starved listeners, and there are some brand new, but much needed categories, that those TV folks are too scared to touch.
What Vanderstone lacks in actual entertainment industry knowledge, he makes up for in brutal hard truths and a no BS attitude.
Rove McManus, Costa Georgiadis, Peter Helliar, the ABC, David Koch and Tracy Grimshaw are just some of the victims…err…nominees, for this year’s inaugural awards.
Rudi’s Steaming Brown Logies will kick off with its very own Brown Carpet, with live coverage and comedy from Vanderstone and the team at Triple M’s Moonman in the Morning.
Host and judge of the awards Rudi Vanderstone said: “In my day job as a plumber I’ve never seen anything as stinky as what I’ve seen on Australian TV.”
Listen to the Steaming Brown Logies 2020 live on Friday June 26, 2020 at 8:30am on 104.9 FM Triple M Sydney or via the Triple M app.
STEAMING BROWN LOGIES 2020
RUDI’S CATEGORIES AND NOMINEES
THE STEAMING BROWN LOGIE
For the worst talent on Australian Television for 2020.
Peter Helliar
Tracy Grimshaw
David Koch
Tommy Little
Waleed Aly
Julia Zemiro
THE NEWEST NUGGET
This is the best new talent that has caused the most pain to the viewers sensory system. It’s hard to make a list of nominees because nothing is new in the sewer of Australian television.
REALITY TELEVISION SHTINKERS
Dancing with the Stars
The Block
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!
MAFS
ORDINARY LOSERS COMPETING ON THE TELEVISION AND HUMILIATING THEMSELVES
Lego Masters
MKR The Rivals
The Voice
STEAMING STREAMING
The Tiger King
The Crown
The Last Dance
Unorthodox
MUTTS, MONGRELS AND HALF BREEDS
Pooch Perfect
MAFS
Gardening Australia
Mercado on TV: Rebel Wilson with comedy’s biggest bitches & dirty dogs
What follows next is costumes, nudity, dildos and banjos. An 18+ rated version of Home and Away, with Sam Simmons dressed up as a Summer Bay High schoolgirl, is about as blue as it can get, especially when discussing former headmaster Donald Fisher.
Host Rebel Wilson, last seen wrangling ridiculous poodles in Pooch Perfect, has a much better time here with comedy’s biggest bitches and dirty dogs. They include Anne Edmonds, Frank Woodley, Ed Kavalee, Susie Youssef, Nick Cody, Becky Lucas, Nazeem Hussain, Dilruk Jayasinha and Joel Creasey and their behaviour is crazy and disgraceful. Huge thumbs up from me.
Odd that Sky News special The Death of the Aussie Larrikin? said “comedy is in a lot of trouble today”. That’s because they spoke to no Aussie comedian under 50, therefore conveniently ignoring everything happening in comedy today. Surely larrikin Tom Gleeson, who won the Gold Logie by being politically incorrect, was worthy of a mention, but apparently not.
Today’s comedians can choose between doing sketch comedies, TV sitcoms or panel shows like Have You Been Paying Attention? Hannah Gadsby had worldwide success with Netflix hits Nanette and Douglas. Amazon Prime currently has 10 stand-up specials from Aussies like Tommy Little and Judith Lucy, while Stan’s originals include everyone from Wil Anderson to Tom Ballard.
Gone with the Wind (Saturday on Fox Classics) screens with a disclaimer beforehand this weekend on Australian TV. HBO MAX in America will use a new introduction from black scholar and TCM host Jacqueline Stewart. And that Fawlty Towers episode is streaming again in the UK, but also now with a disclaimer. Now, that wasn’t so bad was it? Guess it’s more like “pause culture” than “cancel culture”, but that doesn’t look as good on the front page of the newspaper.
Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse (Saturday on ABC) is a modern reworking of her 1961 occult novel. There’s no Poirot or Miss Marple or all-star cast (just Rufus Sewell), but there are three spooky witches living in a weird Wicker Man-type village. At just two episodes, it’s immaculately styled, but story wise, it’s rather convoluted.
Perry Mason (Monday on Fox Showcase) has been rebooted for an HBO prequel set in 1930’s Los Angeles. It’s so gritty it verges on gruesome, so it probably won’t appeal to fans who remember the original 1957 series, American TV’s first ever one-hour drama. For a new audience, however, its themes of religious mania, corruption in power and racism in the police force, could not be more timely.
TV Ratings: Thursday June 18 Week 25 2020
Seven News 1,086,000/1,013,000
Nine News 926,000/875,000
ABC News 763,000
A Current Affair 599,000
7.30 525,000
The Project 343,000/499,000
10 News 372,000/259,000
Sunrise 267,000
The Drum 209,000
The Latest 197,000
News Breakfast 193,000
Today 183,000
SBS World News 169,000
Seven: Seven News and then Home and Away on Seven and 7TWO set the network up for a win last night.
The key to the victory of course was the AFL with a network audience of 624,000 ranking it #1 non-news in primetime. The Melbourne audience was 398,000 watching Hawthorn carve up last year’s premiers.
Nine: The NRL was also a one-sided match as the Knights ran away with the game. An audience of 326,000 were watching on Nine and 9Gem. The Sydney crowd was 163,000 with 138,000 in Brisbane.
10: No MasterChef was again a challenge for the network trying to attract viewers. Thursday share slipped into single figures for the first time this year.
Celebrity Gogglebox USA moved earlier at 7.30pm with 373,000 watching after 455,000 tuned in at 8.30pm last week.
ABC: Escape to the City returned to the schedule with 319,000 after 8pm.
Earlier in the night The Heights was on 204,000.
SBS: Part one of The World’s Busiest Stations was in New York visiting Grand Central Station and Penn Station with 207,000 watching.
Week 25 TV: Thursday
| THURSDAY METRO | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Seven | Nine | 10 | SBS | |||||
| ABC | 10.5% | 7 | 22.6% | 9 | 16.7% | 10 | 9.6% | SBS One | 4.6% |
| ABC KIDS/ ABC COMEDY | 2.8% | 7TWO | 4.6% | GO! | 2.8% | 10 Bold | 4.8% | VICELAND | 1.3% |
| ABC ME | 0.5% | 7mate | 5.3% | GEM | 1.5% | 10 Peach | 2.7% | Food Net | 1.6% |
| ABC NEWS | 1.5% | 7flix | 2.1% | 9Life | 2.1% | NITV | 0.1% | ||
| 9Rush | 1.1% | SBS World Movies | 1.1% | ||||||
| TOTAL | 15.3% | 34.6% | 24.3% | 17.2% | 8.7% | ||||
| THURSDAY REGIONAL | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABC | Seven Affiliates | Nine Affiliates | 10 Affiliates | SBS | |||||
| ABC | 10.1% | 7 | 19.1% | 9 | 18.6% | WIN | 8.6% | SBS One | 3.9% |
| ABC KIDS/ ABC COMEDY | 3.3% | 7TWO | 6.4% | GO! | 4.4% | WIN Bold | 4.6% | VICELAND | 1.3% |
| ABC ME | 0.4% | 7mate | 4.3% | GEM | 3.4% | WIN Peach | 2.4% | Food Net | 1.1% |
| ABC NEWS | 1.3% | 7flix (Excl. Tas/WA) | 2.1% | 9Life | 2.3% | Sky News on WIN | 2.0% | NITV | 0.1% |
| SBS Movies | 1.1% | ||||||||
| TOTAL | 15.2% | 31.9% | 28.8% | 17.7% | 7.6% | ||||
| THURSDAY METRO ALL TV | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTA | STV | ||||||||
| 84.2% | 15.8% | ||||||||
THURSDAY FTA
- Seven News Seven 1,086,000
- Seven News At 6.30 Seven 1,013,000
- Nine News Nine 926,000
- Nine News 6:30 Nine 875,000
- ABC News ABC 763,000
- The Chase Australia Seven 633,000
- Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football Seven 624,000
- A Current Affair Nine 599,000
- Home And Away Seven 568,000
- 7.30 ABC 525,000
- Hot Seat Nine 503,000
- The Project 7pm 10 499,000
- Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football – Pre Match Seven 402,000
- The Chase Australia-5pm Seven 388,000
- Celebrity Gogglebox USA 10 373,000
- 10 News First 10 372,000
- The Project 6.30pm 10 343,000
- Sammy J ABC 335,000
- Escape From The City ABC 319,000
- Thursday Night NRL Live Nine 301,000
Demo Top 5
16-39 Top Five
- Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football Seven 193,000
- The Project 7pm 10 119,000
- Seven News Seven 117,000
- Nine News 6:30 Nine 113,000
- Seven News At 6.30 Seven 111,000
18-49 Top Five
- Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football Seven 286,000
- Seven News Seven 232,000
- The Project 7pm 10 221,000
- Nine News Nine 221,000
- Seven News At 6.30 Seven 214,000
25-54 Top Five
- Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football Seven 295,000
- Seven News Seven 293,000
- Seven News At 6.30 Seven 274,000
- Nine News 6:30 Nine 274,000
- Nine News Nine 274,000
THURSDAY Multichannel
- NCIS (R) 10 Bold 201,000
- BlueyAM ABCKIDS/COMEDY 181,000
- Father Brown PM 7TWO 164,000
- Bluey ABCKIDS/COMEDY 155,000
- Miss Scarlet And The Duke PM 7TWO 152,000
- Little J And Big Cuz AM ABCKIDS/COMEDY 143,000
- Neighbours 10 Peach 138,000
- Go JettersAM ABCKIDS/COMEDY 136,000
- Seven’s AFL: Thursday Night Football 7mate 133,000
- Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom ABCKIDS/COMEDY 129,000
- Miss Scarlet And The Duke-Ep.2 Pm 7TWO 128,000
- Sahara 9GO! 127,000
- Hawaii Five-O 10 Bold 127,000
- Dog Loves Books ABCKIDS/COMEDY 126,000
- Hawaii Five-O (R) 10 Bold 124,000
- Spicks And Specks Ep 2 ABCKIDS/COMEDY 121,000
- Hard Quiz ABCKIDS/COMEDY 118,000
- Peppa Pig AM ABCKIDS/COMEDY 118,000
- Hey Duggee ABCKIDS/COMEDY 114,000
- Bargain Hunt PM 7TWO 112,000
THURSDAY STV
- Live: AFL Richmond V Hawthorn FOX FOOTY 235,000
- Live: NRL: Knights V Broncos FOX LEAGUE 220,000
- Aussie Gold Hunters Discovery Channel 99,000
- Live: AFL Pre Game Thursday FOX FOOTY 79,000
- Credlin Sky News Live 68,000
- Live: The Late Show With Matty Johns FOX LEAGUE 65,000
- Live: NRL Pre Game Thursday FOX LEAGUE 63,000
- Paul Murray Live Sky News Live 62,000
- Live: AFL Post Game Thursday FOX FOOTY 61,000
- The Bolt Report Sky News Live 61,000
- PML Later Sky News Live 46,000
- Jeopardy! FOX Classics 43,000
- Escape To The Country Lifestyle Channel 43,000
- The Kenny Report Sky News Live 41,000
- Selling Houses Australia Lifestyle Channel 40,000
- Gold Rush: White Water Discovery Channel 40,000
- The Simpsons FOX8 39,000
- Family Guy FOX8 38,000
- Chris Smith Tonight Sky News Live 36,000
- Border Security: Australia’s Front Line FOX8 33,000
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Media News Roundup
Business of Media
Inside Snapchat's plan to woo Gen Z: Co-founder tells The Australian
Speaking exclusively to The Australian, Snap co-founder Bobby Murphy said that his app’s focus on communication between close friends – achieved through augmented reality and the app’s heavy focus on the camera – means it will retain its popularity with Generation Z and millennial users.
Snap has sought to set itself apart from rivals for both users and investors, focusing on friendships rather than broadcasting to an open audience, and allowing it to avoid the misinformation and hate speech problems that have plagued Facebook and Twitter.
It’s also fighting for young, savvy smartphone users with China-owned video app TikTok, which opened an Australian office this week.
“It comes down to focusing on what differentiates us,” said Murphy. “Snapchat has always been about communication between real friends, and in many of our core markets we’re an application that people use alongside other apps, not necessarily instead of.”
Margin Call: Fundie Clark Perkins the new force in print
Bauer had spent $565m accumulating their magazine stable, and while no one is confirming the latest price, the highest mooted figure is $50m.
Perkins founded Mercury Capital in 2010 after making private equity plays as Goldman Sachs JBWere’s managing director of merchant banking.
Mercury is headed by Perkins and boasts high-profile New Zealand directors Craig Heatley, who started Sky TV in New Zealand, along with Tom Sturgess and Geoff Ricketts. Perkins, the former chairman of Kathmandu, joined forces with CVC’s Ben Hawter and Oliver Tompkins of McKinsey & Co to set up Mercury.
Mercury initially raised a $120m fund 10 years ago. In 2015, a $300m fund followed, and in 2018 there was a third fund with a $600m raise.
News Brands
‘Keep out of my f---ing life’: Peter Foster’s tirade over podcast
Former CNN anchor and A Current Affair reporter Justin Armsden produced the explosive podcast called King of Sting, which is being released this Sunday.
Armsden, who spent years tracking Foster with a private eye for ACA, took to Facebook today to reveal he had copped an expletive-ridden tirade from the serial scammer.
“You horrible c..t Armsden,” screenshots of the Messenger rant read.
“Keep out of my f…n life.. Your (sic) horrible grub.
“As if I would not square up to a horrible little (expletive) like you – anytime you want, Police Youth club boxing ring – 8 ounce gloves, I will teach you the lesson of a lifetime. Bring a TV crew.”
Television
McLeod's Daughters creator reveals movie version in development
“We’re developing a feature film,” Graeme-Evans posted on social media, revealing a project was in development with independent film distributor Transmission Films and Screen Tasmania.
“It’s called The McLeods of Drovers Run and I started writing the story a couple of months ago. Today we heard that we’ve got backing from Screen Tasmania and the Tasmanian Government to write the very first stage of the movie. This is such a vote of confidence in McLeods. And I promise, as we develop the story with the very talented screen writer Emma Jensen (Mary Shelley and the upcoming release, I am Woman – the Helen Reddy story) that I’ll keep you with us every step of the way. We’re just at the beginning, the very beginning, but we’re on our way. No promises but I have such a good feeling about this.”
Posie Graeme-Evans
Speaking to The Mercury’s Linda Smith, Graeme-Evans added from her Tasmanian farm near Cygnet:
“It’s insane,’’ she said of the hype around The McLeods of Drovers Run movie.
“I’m stunned by the response, it’s just astonishing – it’s a tidal wave. I’m also very grateful.’’
Smith reported the film will be set in Scotland – as viewers meet the original drover of Droversq Run from the 1850s – with Graeme-Evans hopeful those scenes could be filmed in Tasmania.
Sports Media
Foxtel exits current FFA deal, could sign new cheaper agreement Friday
Sources told The Australian Financial Review that Foxtel was using a clause in its contract regarding content – the staging of games – not being delivered for 20 days, allowing it to walk away or renegotiate.
Foxtel is open to a new, more financially suitable arrangement. It could announce a deal for the rest of the 2020 season as soon as Friday.
Foxtel made an earlier offer of $11 million per season, which the FFA was not happy with, as it was well below Foxtel’s current deal for broadcast rights with the sporting body worth about $57 million a year in an agreement that runs until 2023. The sport has not been a ratings success for the News Corp-majority owned subscription business.
A-League’s season in turmoil: Fox Sports removes games from platform
Though Foxtel, as owner of Fox Sports, has indicated it intends to walk away from its contract to show the competition until 2023, confirmation of a deal to broadcast the remainder of this season could come as soon as Friday.
One option would be for both parties to agree a one-year deal at a reduced rate, allowing FFA and the clubs time to find a new broadcast partner.
An invoice for nearly $15m sent by FFA to Fox on Monday – for the July-September quarter – appears to have been the catalyst for the breakdown, with Fox removing all domestic football content from its website late on Wednesday.