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Melburnians to watch AFL clash live 7

Seven wins Wednesday’s ratings as Ten slumps to 16%

Tweeters get twitchy

Virgin Mobile rebrands Sydney’s Metro Theatre 2

Australia prepares for Web Week 3

YouTube users watch less TV, listen to less radio and read fewer newspapers 10

ADMA Awards finalists revealed 2

Macquarie: We’ve closed Livenews because it wasn’t making enough money 12

Spearman Experiment goes wrong for Ten 11

Facebook hits financial milestone

Speed reading PR stunt brings media to Dan Brown launch 20

Peter Bray re-emerges as The Brand Shop’s new digital director 1

Farmer Wants A Wife wins for Nine 3

Kyle & Jackie O ratings plummet in nightmare figures for 2Day FM 39

Government pushes for Telstra break-up 11

Most mobile services ads ‘may breach the rules’ 1

150+ make the PR awards shortlist 2

Telstra hopes Brad & Emma will be as popular as Patrick & Daniel 21

Sarah Wilson dropped from Masterchef 6

PRs urged: Send us your giant emails – plain text journalism is dead 52

38,000 tune in for 30 Seconds 15

Digital channel Go overtakes SBS1 4

Rudd turns off the advertising tap 3

New Aussie-NY public relations agency iiQPR launches 4

Caravan of Courage wins the ratings roadtrip 6

ABC boss Mark Scott: TV networks have dumbed down prime time 4

Fairfax does the double at Newspaper of the year, but News Ltd rules digital 14

Sandilands set for sack

Gretel Killeen and Naomi Robson set for brief TV returns 2

After Erin Brockovich, the movie; Erin Brockovich, the ad 8

Wednesday ratings nightmare for Ten

Why Reckitt’s big buy wasn’t all good news

Media jobs market begins to pick up 4

Dannii Minogue and Andrew G to stand in for suspended Sandilands 3

Media owners face new calls for issue by issue reporting

Auditor – we need to provide better data but somebody must pay for it 4

TV viewers deride Ten’s 20 To 01 lookalike The Spearman Experiment 22

Sandilands taken off air again following concentration camp comment 41

BMF to open in Melbourne after National Foods consolidation 3

Charlie Sheen and current affairs help Nine win Monday 8

Naked reveals new muffin ad 27

Radio’s ad revenue decline eases 2

Fairfax to launch National Times next week 8

Telstra closes nowwearetalking.com.au 21

Seven dances all the way to a Sunday win

Starcom’s Nolan pledges not to give up on Perth despite sudden Mitchell sale

New adspend monitor claims the market is rebounding and magazine revenue is up 41% 1

‘You can’t polish a turd. But you can roll it in glitter.’ 24

Outdoor industry poised for Move launch 2

Agencies face five year awards ban for scam ads 10

Poll says scheduling tactics most annoying to TV viewers

Content-light radio broadcasters use birdsong loop

Ogilvy & Mather unveils KFC ad 15

Expedia appoints BMF and Mitchells and launches flight fees campaign 3

Ten announces first group of stars for Celebrity Masterchef 18

BMF hires Paddy Douneen as media director 6

Nine wins Thursday again but Ten fails to Rush ahead of Seven 2

Fairfax to partner with Mozo on money comparison sites 3

Introducing the Mumbrella events board 7

Kastner unveils Prevention ad

PacMags launches Prevention 12

Eddie McGuire to host Triple M’s Melbourne breakfast show 4

Money For Jam delivers for Nine 7

Peter Berner to leave Triple M tomorrow 1

Carpet Choice appoints Next Digital

Wilkinson PR appoints Shirley to lifestyle role 2

Seven hosts a raft of winners for Tuesday 2

Ferrero shifts account to PHD 8

St George bank appoints O&M

UK content micropayment system to see 2010 trial

GPY&R loses Career One to Clemenger BBDO 4

Not much love for Nine’s farmers

Aussie viewers continue slow switch to digital 7

Magic salad plate is MADC favourite 3

BMF launch ‘Lambstock’ TVC for Meat and Livestock Australia 4

‘Australians don’t get new things unless they succeed overseas first’ 24

Telstra expands Twitter presence 6

ABC beats Ten for second Sunday running 3

PR agency aims to make the most of health promotion days 2

Agency boss: We’re targeting blogs with fake personas but it’s not spam 199

Australia’s most iconic ads?

Nine takes Thursday night while Ten sneaks into second 3

Jenner steps up as Parsons moves to chairman role at Mediacom 23

Media commission system ‘absolutely ridiculous’ 6

Clemenger BBDO leads the Effies 3

New Qantas ad campaign praised by media and marketing experts 19

Everyone’s a winner in new Nielsen online numbers 7

OMD boss Coad: ‘Don’t waste a good recession’ 5