High wire media finances, controversial award winners and CMO successions

Welcome to Unmade, written in the UK on Thursday afternoon my time, early on Friday morning yours. Still no glimpses of the sun at my end.

I remain in the jetlag-and-adjusting-to-the-bad-coffee phase. I’m sure last night’s 1.30am alarm call for Nine boss Mike Sneesby’s press conference didn’t help the body clock adjustment. But I’ll come to that conference call later.

Earlier in my career, when I edited a British magazine about the media industry, we hired an Australian journalist. She became known in the office as “Uncle Albert”, after the Only Fools and Horses sitcom character who would constantly hark back to “During the war…”

In our colleague’s case, her catch phrase was “In Australia…” before finding some new way to explain how her home country was superior.