Paper review: Sky News goes local; Westacott goes west; Just like 24?; Group M makes nice
Today is a very strange Monday indeed.
There’s no story in the Australian Financial Review from Neil Shoebridge about TV trading. Indeed, there’s no story from Shoebridge at all. Instead the marketing section (just two pages this week) is edited by Damon Kitney.
His focus is on Sky News. According to Kitney, who’s been talking to Sky News boss Angelos Frangopoulos, the channel is to launch localised red button news services for Australia’s capital cities.
And here’s a little dog-that-didn’t-bark conspiracy theory for you. Saturday’s The Prince column of the AFR carried an unsourced item suggesting that talk have taken place to put Sky News on Freeview. Curiously, Frangopoulos isn’t asked about this in Kitney’s piece. A suspicious person might wonder about the source of Saturday’s tidbit.
Yawn! Geez, I haven’t been in Australia for two years and these papers are still bashing out the same old crap. I am surprised to hear that it’s Monday and there is not one story about TV ratings in the AFR! What happened to Shoebridge? I’m surprised these sections even still exist in print.
Maybe Shoebridge was waiting for Costello to make the first move. One can only hope. NEXT!