Sydney

 • 2CH, smoothfm & 2Day up, Nova drops in drive & breakfast

Biggest rise: 2CH +1.5
Biggest fall: Nova 969 -2.1

Read more: Sydney: 2CH, smoothfm & 2Day up, Nova drops in drive & breakfast

Melbourne

• Fox & Triple M lift as KIIS and SEN drift lower

Biggest rise: Fox/Triple M +0.8
Biggest fall: KIIS 101.1 -1.3

Read more: Melbourne: Fox & Triple M lift as KIIS and SEN drift lower

Brisbane

• Nova recovers as Ash, Kip, Luttsy with Susie reclaim #1Biggest rise: Fox/Triple M +0.8
Biggest fall: KIIS 101.1 -1.3

Biggest rise: Nova 106.9 +1.6
Biggest fall: 4BC -1.5

Read more: Brisbane: Nova recovers as Ash, Kip, Luttsy with Susie reclaim #1

Perth

• Mix 94.5 only station up as Clairsy, Matt & Kymba back on top

Biggest rise: Mix 94.5 +0.8
Biggest fall: Hit 92.9 -1.6

Read more: Perth: Mix 94.5 only station up with Clairsy, Matt & Kymba back on top

Adelaide

• Nova and Mix the biggest movers, Cruise & Fiveaa dip

Biggest rise: Nova 91.1 +1.0
Biggest fall: Cruise 1323 -1.5

Read more: Adelaide: Nova and Mix the biggest movers, Cruise & Fiveaa dip

Blackley told Mediaweek: “We have well and truly outperformed the market which has been driven by the stability of our schedule and an improvement in ratings with the FM plus DAB+ plus audience coupled together.

“There has been an 8.5% increase (367,000 people) in our reach because of our strategy of joining those audiences together.”

Read the original here.

Now the media executive has been sharing that strategy with international broadcasters.

Blackley was one of the speakers at the World DAB symposium in Malaysia last week. Other Australians taking part in Kuala Lumpur included CRA chief executive Joan Warner and media trainer Steve Ahern.

Blackley started his presentation with an overview of Southern Cross Austereo by splitting the company into three categories – capital city radio, regional radio and TV, and then national exposure on other platforms including PodcastOne and the SCA network of 94 websites.

He then gave the audience a summary of the state of the DAB+ market and how the major broadcasters SCA, Nova and ARN were using their collection of licences.

Blackley then presented three key PowerPoint slides that gave an insight into the SCA DAB+ planning:

• SCA’s brand strategy grouped under the Hit and Triple M brands. “A safe, trusted family of brands,” said Blackley.
• How SCA is adding the audiences from its FM and DAB+ stations to increase reach for advertisers. A controversial slide for some because it ignores the DAB+ presence on other networks.
• Monetisation strategy that shows how advertisers using Triple M benefit from increased reach of the brand across its DAB+ portfolio.

Other topics covered by Blackley included its digital streaming eco-system, how SCA nurtures new talent and its plans for smart speaker integration.

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Top Photo: Grant Blackley in Malaysia last week

By James Manning

She was on her author’s tour for her new book A Real Girl’s Guide to Money.

Zahos has long been associated with the Money brand from its early days as a primetime TV show on Nine. The program, initiated by Peter Meakin during his years with the network, ran for much of the 90s and was hosted by Paul Clitheroe who remains a contributor to Money.

Zahos wondered why there is not room for a similar TV program today. “There is so much interest in money matters again. Everybody wants to live frugal and save and budget.”

ACP Magazines launched Money in 1999 with Zahos joining the team as deputy editor under founding editor Pam Walkley who was a former AFR journalist. Walkley is a noted property expert and still contributes to the magazine.

“My background was banking. I did a Bachelor of Economics at Queensland University and then worked for Westpac,” said Zahos.

Zahos was interviewed by Clitheroe who gave her start in media at Nine.

When personal finance shows are given a spot on FTA primetime they seem to work. Money was a strong contributor to Nine during the 90s when it was a TV powerhouse.

When Seven moved David Koch into primetime during the GFC in the late 2000s his Sunday night show was also a ratings winner.

Is there a gap in the market for more. “Yes,” said Zahos. “We need them. I would like to see a show about finance that is very real. We have reports and we have stories, but nothing covering what people are thinking about. There is more to money than dollars and cents. There is so much to cover including behavioural science – why do we do what we do?”

Money publishes 11 editions a year and ends the year with its Best of the Best Awards edition. “That idea comes way back from my job interview with Paul. When he asked me what could I bring to the show, I asked why don’t we do awards. Back then there wasn’t easy access to research houses and there was no Internet for everybody to search for the cheapest home loan.”

Listen to Effie Zahos on the Mediaweek podcast here.

McDougall worked with 1980s and 1990s with Australian music magazine Smash Hits when it was edited by Mediaweek’s James Manning.

The magazine, launched by Fairfax Magazines in 1984, used McDougall for many of its photo shoots in Sydney.

Thanks to Canon Australia, McDougall will be presenting a retrospective exhibition of her life’s work in Sydney and Melbourne which will include photographic images of INXS, Crowded House, Paul Kelly and The Church along with many other images chosen from her extensive portfolio.

In recognition of a 40 year career spent photographing iconic Australian and international musicians, McDougall was the recipient of the inaugural 2018 AWMA (Australian Women in Music Awards) for Best Photographer.

In 1979 McDougall sold her first photo to one of the biggest band in the land, The Angels. She said this was ground zero and kick-started her photographic career in the business of making music.

From that moment on she has been creating striking pictures of iconic Australian music acts which include Cold Chisel, Divinyls, Richard Clapton, Noiseworks, Diesel, Jeff Duff, GANGgajang, Ross Wilson, Mental as Anything, Boom Crash Opera, Matt Finish and Chris Bailey to name a few, along with visiting international musicians like Tom Jones and Mick Jagger.

“I feel like I’ve had an angel watch over me throughout my life,” McDougall said. “I mean seriously, who starts their career selling their first photo to one of the biggest bands in the country? I still don’t quite know how that happened but I’m glad it did.”

McDougall said she always felt that the best way to live life was to do the things you liked and from an early age those things were music, rock’n’roll and art. Her idea of fun was combining these two mediums and she’s been following her heart ever since.

McDougall is still taking photos of musicians to this day and now, 40 years after it all began, audiences get to see some of her award winning collection.

Canon galleries – Sun Studios in Sydney and Sky Light Gallery in South Melbourne – are the venues hosting the exhibition that helped shape the Australian Music industry.

EXHIBITION DATES

• 3rd – 19th April 2019 – Sun Studios SYDNEY
42 Maddox St Alexandria [02] 9641 5568

• 9th – 24th May 2019 – Sky Light Gallery MELBOURNE
95 Buckhurst St South Melbourne [03] 8695 9700

Tuesday: Week 11 2019

by James Manning 

• Seven News 956,000/911,000
• Nine News 855,000/867,000
• A Current Affair 778,000
• ABC News 691,000
• 7.30 556,000
• The Project 274,000/443,000
• 10 News First 373,000
• SBS World News 139,000

Breakfast TV

• Sunrise 269,000
• Today 190,000

Seven

The channel’s 7pm soap series Home And Away started the week on 636,000 and dipped to 617,000 last night.

My Kitchen Rules is locked in the 700,000s with audiences of 761,000 and 728,000 this week. Spice Boys was the name of the Instant Restaurant last night and judges Pete and Manu were particularly impressed the entrée of coconut curry mussels, which attracted a perfect score of 10 from both.

The final episode of season two of The Good Doctor then screened to 549,000.

Nine

A Current Affair investigated what it called “new shame” for Cardinal George Pell ahead of his sentencing today. The episode did 778,000 after Monday’s 2019 record audience of 927,000.

Married At First Sight concluded the home visits with more twists and turns, which will be explored during tonight’s dinner party episode. Nine has sent out of Cyclone Cyrell warning with a storm expected to be unleashed. The Tuesday MAFS audience was 1.245m after 1.281m a week ago.

Travel Guides was on Australian soil this week with a trip through South Australia which included a nude swim which was enough to set yet another series high with 788,000 watching.

10

Guests on The Project included Cassandra Thorburn on Dancing With The Stars. There was no direct mention of her former Today show host husband, although Peter Helliar cracked a good joke which nearly got her reliving a Logies moment at the start of the interview. “I can’t dance, but I like having a good time,” she revealed of her learnings after her primetime TV debut. Former Project host Charlie Pickering also paid a visit. The 7pm audience was 443,000 after 469,000 on Monday.

The ob doc Ambulance continued at 7.30pm with some horrid accident scenes with 393,000 watching after 279,000 last week.

NCIS then did 257,000 after 8.30pm.

ABC

Foreign Correspondent featured ABC reporter Samantha Hawley in Venice discussing over crowding as growing numbers of tourists continue to flood the city. The episode did 512,000 after 373,000 last week.

The first of the three-part The Cult Of The Family then launched with 510,000.

SBS

The final of this series of Michael Portillo’s Abandoned Britain visited Brighton with 207,000 watching.

Insight looked at vitamins and supplements with 201,000.

The channel’s biggest national audience was in the 9.30pm slot when the return of Dateline investigated alternative care options in Denmark for early onset dementia. The episode did 198,000 metro, but 291,000 when adding in the regional crowd.