2014 Annual: the year that was – June
It was another year of continual change in the media and marketing world. Over the next 12 days, Mumbrella’s Miranda Ward provides a month-by-month recap of the major stories and developments that affected the industry.
The month kicked off with Channel Ten’s announcement that it would be reviving 37-year-old quiz format Family Feud as the centrepiece of its early evening schedule.
Following the redundancy proposal in May and the consequent staff strikes, Fairfax Media announced new proposals regarding redundancies which would see the publisher scale back the number by 18 full time staff, to between 50-60 full time positions.
In radio news, for the first time in nearly seven years and 55 radio ratings survey Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson lost their number one FM breakfast show position in Sydney, losing their crown to Australia Radio Network stablemate Brendan Jones and Amanda Keller on WSFM.
