Inside the Magazine: 20 May
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Top Story
Nick Hayden, EP of The Feed, tells how the SBS 2 team has its new daily 7:30pm current affairs show ready to launch next week only a month after he came on board
Person of the Week
Andrew O’Keefe, host of Deal Or No Deal and co-host of Weekend Sunrise, Seven
Media Buzz
Kyle and Jackie O in NYC, Eurovision goes interactive, Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary light show, Ski & Snowboard With Kids launches and Belle’s inaugural Interior Design Awards
Spectator
Our cameras were on hand for oOh!’s Supplier Night and the launches of Aussie Pickers and House Rules
Media People
New appointments at BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand, Mi9, Essential Media & Entertainment, Bauer Media Group, News Limited, AFL Media, Foxtel, Fox Sports and nextmedia
Inside Newspapers
ABC’s digital sales figures show growth for most major newspaper apps and Brisbane Times managing director Simon Holt says blogging news as it happens builds audiences
Inside Magazines
Keith Bellows, visiting US editor-in-chief of National Geographic Traveler, discusses the magazine’s digital strategy
Inside Radio
One year after the launch of dmg Radio’s smoothfm, group program director Paul Jackson says the easy listening brand is on target
Inside Television
Meet the team behind SBS 2’s The Feed, and Pacific Magazines’ Home Beautiful editor Wendy Moore talks about her role as a judge on Seven’s House Rules
Inside Subscription TV
With foodies in front and behind the camera in LifeStyle FOOD’s new Marion Grasby series, Marion’s Thailand’s EP Adrian Hayward says Thai cuisine is the star
Entertainment Charts
This week’s MPDAA box office chart, top 20 iTunes TV episode sales chart, Nielsen’s media-generated videos/movies websites and the ARIA top 20 albums and singles charts
iPad Extra: Television Extra
Our OzTAM Top 100 consolidated chart for week 18 shows best audience growth for drama – great numbers for A Place To Call Home, Packed To The Rafters, Arrow, House Husbands