Six months ago Hogan (pictured) arrived in Perth relocating her family from Cairns, about as far away you can get from Perth in Australia and still have an internet connection.

Hogan and her Perth SCA team couldn’t have had a much better start to the year with ratings growth in all the key dayparts in the first radio ratings survey of 2018.

• Radio Ratings 1 2018 – Perth: Strong start for Mix 94.5, #1 overall

Hogan has more than 17 years’ experience in management and content direction for media companies across radio and television. She had been general manager of SCA’s Cairns and Tablelands business with prior roles as a station manager at the Seven Network and Prime Radio.

Familiar with how SCA systems and management structure worked, Hogan told Mediaweek she had been focused on getting to know the SCA Perth team and the market. “We have a wonderful leadership team in Perth, we have a great new breakfast show at 92.9 and have had great results for a refreshed Mix lineup.”

Mix 94.5 breakfast hosts Clairsy, Matt and Kymba

In her Perth role Hogan said having a background in television and radio has been helpful. “It gives me a very rounded view on how the media works. It is also helpful as we partner with both Seven and Nine in the market and it’s great to have had experience with both networks in other roles.”

While Perth is clearly a critical part of national networks, there are elements about the market that are attractive to executives working there. “Perth is so much about relationships and we are able to offer high quality service to clients via the duopoly and our studio facilities.”

The improved results at both Mix 94.5 and 92.9 were headlined by Mix’s Clairsy, Matt and Kymba breakfast show back at #1.

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This year Slime Cup will visit new locations for the first time – Watergardens Town Centre in Victoria, Hyperdome in Queensland and Westpoint in New South Wales. The search for TV stars begins on April 7, 2018.

During the live audition periods, Nickelodeon will be taking over these three centres with two weeks of holiday activities for the whole family including craft villages, character meet and greets, and holiday activities for all.

Premiering on Friday June 29 at 5.30pm, the six-episode Slime Cup series will play host to a new competition format with 12 talented teams of two facing off against each other in challenging heats before the top teams meet in the finals. The 12 teams will be selected from the live auditions as well as from online video auditions.

To celebrate the announcement of season 3, Nickelodeon’s in-house commercial team, alongside MCN, visited OMD to present on what’s in store for the next season of this hit family favourite.

While they were there, they slimed Yvette Mayer, MD Sydney, and Daniel Tray, screen trading manager (pictured).

Over the next week Nickelodeon will also slime UM, Wavemaker, MCN, Ikon, DenstuX and Carat.

Seven was at pains to point out that Elliott leaves of his own accord with a desire to start his own business. The network denies the departure of its TV sales director is linked to Seven moving to second place behind Nine in ad share for the first time in 13 years.

Burnette meanwhile has appointed Natalie Harvey as Elliott’s replacement.

Burnette said: “For some time now Adam has talked about his ambition of running his own business, and now is the time for him to pursue that dream.

“Adam’s career at Seven spans some 21 years, including leadership positions in Melbourne and Sydney. During that time he’s played a key role in the strategy and selling of the world’s biggest sporting events, delivering record results from the Beijing and Rio Olympics and the recent Winter Olympics, along with the tennis and AFL. Over the past six years as network director of sales he’s been instrumental in our hugely successful revenue performance.

“I want to sincerely thank Adam for his incredible passion, professionalism, dedication and commitment to the business, and his personal friendship over two decades of working together.

“Adam leaves the business and the team in great shape for the future and we all wish him and his family the very best in their new chapter in business and in life.”

Seven West Media’s CEO Tim Worner added: “Adam’s results over so many seasons speak for themselves, and will be his legacy to Seven.

“He has been a spiritual leader, and by that I mean he has been the keeper and nurturer of the best team spirit in the business. That has been a huge part of him being able to build a crack team and deliver outstanding results.

“On a personal note, I will miss him a lot for all the great things that he brought to Seven in spirit and performance and I wish him nothing but greatest success for the future.”

Elliott said: “Half of my life has been working at this great organization, a time that has been a journey full of learning, challenges and exciting opportunities.

“One of my favourite parts, aside from being able to play a role in building and growing a very dynamic business, has been the absolute privilege of working with so many amazing people, both within Seven West Media and our clients and agencies. I am lucky to be able to call so many of you my friends. After 21 years this will be a tough thing to let go of. However, I know that I will see you on the other side for the next chapter.

“I am extremely grateful and cannot thank Seven West Media enough, and particularly Kurt, for all the incredible opportunities that have been afforded me over this time.”

In announcing Natalie Harvey as Elliott’s replacement, Burnette said: “Nat proved herself as a highly successful GM of UM in Brisbane and then as Seven Brisbane sales director, where she redesigned the structure and approach, turning the office into a high-performance team selling across Seven, Pacific and WAN.

“Nat has built upon that success as Sydney sales director, and is now perfectly placed to provide a seamless transition from Adam, and continue to lead our teams to go above and beyond to meet the current and future needs of the business and our customers.”

Harvey said: “I am absolutely thrilled to be leading the sales team as we enter a new era of Total Video, with premium content being more highly valued than ever and increased positivity about the effectiveness and power of broadcast and long-form video.

“We have an amazing team across the country and I’m looking forward to what the future holds… or better still, the future we are going to create!”

Elliott added: “I am really excited that Nat will take over the reins when I leave. I employed her from UM in Brisbane to lead our Brisbane team just over three years ago, before she moved to Sydney last year.

“She did a brilliant job for us in Brisbane in a short space of time, building a best-in-class team and delivering outstanding outcomes for our clients and agencies. I have no doubt that she will bring her own unique, energetic and driven approach to the role, and I wish her all the success she deserves.”

Read more about Elliott’s career at mediaweek.com.au.

After a video of Briger’s speech found its way to Mediaweek, we are able to present a (slightly edited) version of her memorable insights gleaned from years of working alongside Jackie Frank.

Ten Magazine Commandments (you need to adhere to if you want to work with Jackie Frank)

1. Thou shalt not mistake your new boss for a homeless person.

This related to my first interview with Jackie where she was sitting in an empty office with no shoes, no makeup, crazy hair. I thought I should call security ’cos a homeless woman had killed Jackie and taken over her office!

2. Thou shalt not say no to being humiliated in the pages of marie claire!

The staff quickly became Jackie’s lackeys.

Look what she made us do (in the name of journalism):

• Scour Sydney’s nudist beaches to find men who’d be happy for us to photograph their penises.

• Go to orgasm school and appear sweaty in lycra in the pages of the magazine.

3. Thou shalt NEVER get between Jackie and a camera.

Or you’ll be mowed down. When Sunrise, Daily Edition, Today Tonight and The Morning Show weren’t enough, she masterminded her OWN show, à la Oprah, called Under The Covers, which was a Frank-a-thon on steroids. She loves the camera!

4. Thou shalt NEVER get between Jackie and a famous person.

If there’s a celebrity in the room, Jackie would’ve befriended them and taken several photos for her social media feed – all within 10 minutes.

5. Thou shalt never leave food on one’s desk.

She is the food forager. Anything edible will disappear by the bottom feeder that is Frank.

6. Thou shalt not do a subtle cover.

You can do any masthead colour you want – as long as it’s fluoro! It’s got to be orange, green, yellow or pink ’cos, in the words of Ms Frank, “subtle doesn’t sell”.

7. Thou shalt never take on Jackie when she’s passionate about something.

Jackie took on the Christian right to campaign for same-sex marriage, she took on the PM John Howard over paid maternity leave and she took on Malcolm Turnbull over refugees. No-one stands in her way when she believes in a cause.

8. Thou shalt never be single in her presence.

Jackie is the eternal match-maker. If she has a friend or family member with a single son, she’ll set you up on a date with them! It’s a marie claire initiation.

9. Thou shalt not organise a meeting on a Jewish holiday.

We call Jackie “the convenient Jew”. She’ll take all the Jewish holidays, but when it comes to ham and bacon, all religious bets are off!

10. Thou shalt shield one’s eyes when she’s changing clothes.

You can’t unsee the stuff we’ve seen. Jackie has no shame when it comes to getting changed in her office for all the world to see!

But, above all, she’s been an amazing mentor, loyal friend and hilariously offbeat boss. We’ll miss the freaky, Frank-i-fied fun.

Photo: Jackie Frank and Nicky Briger celebrating 20 years of marie claire in 2015

Listeners to his new home at Hit 92.9 on the Xavier, Heidi and Ryan Perth breakfast show heard the story yesterday and Ryan appeared on The Project last night too.

The news is Jon recently met his birth father and his two half-brothers for the first time ever.

Unfortunately so far he has not met his birth mother but is still looking.

Ryan Jon with his birth father and newfound half-brothers

In a story about the family reunion, Jon posted:

I met my biological father for the first time after finding him with an Ancestry DNA Test.

I’d never seen a biological relative of mine in my 30 years on this planet.

I’d never heard the saying “like father like son”. No one ever asked, “Do you look more like your mother or your father?” I often felt sheepish when a doctor asked about my medical history and I couldn’t answer.

But Ancestry’s DNA tests changed that for me.

Knowing nothing about my family roots, it was fun to find out I’m 62% Irish, 11% Italian and 10% Greek. But it was a random potential fourth cousin that led to me meeting my birth father.

He’s an American man and was backpacking around the world when he was 23 years old and it was during this trip he met my biological mother.

They didn’t know each other for long, but it was long enough for me to be conceived and be brought into this world. My birth father continued his travels and for 30 years had no idea that he had a long lost biological Australia son. Without that Ancestry DNA test, we wouldn’t have known each other for the rest of our lives.

My birth father welcomed me with open arms. “What’s mine is yours,” he said many times, telling me that with his web of friends, colleagues and cousins that “you’ve got a place to stay in almost every city in the USA” and invited me to family fishing trips, Thanksgiving, Christmas and any other event I wanted to attend.

I flew to London where he now works and lives. We hung out and went out for dinner and drinks for the week I was there. I met his wife and his two sons and after growing up as an adoptee and only child, having half-brothers that look like me was incredible.

Jon has posted his video, which he has produced himself, on Sunday night/Monday morning on his Facebook page.

Time spent online

During February 2018, time spent by Australians 18+ on mobile devices grew when compared with year prior. Smartphones had more than double the amount of time spent per person 18+ (51 hours, 10 minutes, +12% versus a year ago) compared to desktop (24 hours, 33 minutes, -19% versus a year ago). Tablet devices also saw strong audience usage at 32 hours, 43 minutes, +10% versus a year ago.

In February 2018, 17.4 million Australians 18+ accessed online content, with smartphones as the device of choice at 15 million. This was followed by desktop audiences 18+ at 14.9 million and tablet audiences at 8.3 million. When compared with the year prior, desktop audiences have increased by 2% and smartphone and tablet audiences have individually increased by 9%.

BBC and MSN News improve rankings

Nielsen digital news rankings for February 2018 revealed that news.com.au (5.7 million) remained the top news entity and increased 1% when compared with the prior year.

In comparison with February 2017, there were changes in the ranking order for the next nine news entity rankings.

In second place were ABC News Websites (4.8 million, +1%), which moved up from fourth place. In third place was nine.com.au (4.6 million, 0%), which fell from second place.

Smh.com.au (3.9 million, -9%) moved from third place to fourth place.

Next were Yahoo7 News Websites (3.1 million, +25% year on year), which moved from seventh to fifth place, followed by Daily Mail (2.8 million, -5%), which dropped from fifth place to sixth place. The Guardian (2.6 million, -4%), which had previously held sixth place in February 2017, moved back to seventh place.

Next was BBC (2.4 million, +8%), which jumped up from eleventh to eighth place.

In ninth place was MSN News (2.1 million, +19%), which jumped up into the top 10 from fourteenth place.

Last was The Age (2.0 million, -14%), which fell from eighth place.

Note that Fairfax Metropolitan sites, including Metropolitan mastheads, do not include any census data for their volumetrics including time per person and sessions per person. Unique audience uses the same methodology as previous months and is consistent with all sites in the rankings.

By James Manning

The Australian box chart as compiled by the MPDAA has a new #1 movie for the first time since mid-February.

A new chart champ, however, wasn’t able to stop the weekend return from the top 20 movies dropping 9% week-on-week to under $10m for the first time this year.

#1 Tomb Raider $2.78m

Mixed reviews, to say the least, probably harmed a better opening weekend. The new reboot of the franchise, with Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, follows the earlier two movies that featured Angelina Jolie in the lead role. The new movie opened on 559 screens with a screen average of $4,987, which is the lowest screen average of any #1 movie this year.

#2 Black Panther $1.93m

After four weeks at #1, the movie has slipped one spot. Its screen average was the best in the top five though with $5,072 from 381 screens. Black Panther is now just short of $36m in total. In the US it continues to rank #1 at the box office and it is predicted the film could eventually rank #10 in all-time global box office rankings.

#3 Red Sparrow $1.14m

Just under 300 screens are still showing the Jennifer Lawrence spy thriller with a total to-date of $7.65m.

#4 Game Night $626,000

A fourth week in the top five with the total earn so far sitting on $6.12m and the movie still on 245 screens.

#5 Peter Rabbit $457,000 (Previews)

Ahead of its official release this week, the mix of computer animation and live action from Animal Logic went out early to 151 screens with a screen average of $3,028.

Outside the top 5

Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle dropped off the chart this week after 12 weeks and a gross of $48.42m, which means it might just end up short of making the all-time top 10 for Australia, where The Return Of The King is at #10 on $49.37m.

By James Manning

Seven

Home and Away started its week again in the 600,000s – with 684,000 to be exact, after a week 11 average of 634,000.

On My Kitchen Rules group 1 was tasked with creating dishes from the heart, serving up a romantic dinner to 30 loved-up couples. Dressed in their chef whites with Manu running the kitchen, three teams were in charge of main and two teams were on dessert. Alex and Emily won the people’s choice with a duck main course while Kim and Suong’s dessert was judged the weakest dish. The Monday episode did 996,000 after 1.06m on Sunday and 926,000 on Monday last week.

Two episodes of The Resident then did 402,000 and 324,000.

Nine

A Current Affair started its new week with 943,000 watching stories including a live cross from reporter Steve Marshall covering the bushfires in Tathra and then Australia’s Bonnie and Clyde. ACA’s week 11 average was 807,000.

Married At First Sight did good business again, which is no surprise. The surprise perhaps was the couples who are deciding to stay or go. Last night John and Melissa plus Sarah and Telv decided to stay together while Troy and Ashley (or TrAshley as they have been tagged) dumped each other on the show. The episode did 1.52m, which is the best Monday episode this season and the third-biggest episode across all series.

Meanwhile Nine has reported episode 16 of Married this season has become the first program to hit a VPM (video player measurement) of 300,000 within 28 days (excluding content shorter than 15 minutes).

Travel Guides let loose the tourists in Sri Lanka, which attracted the format’s biggest audience ever of 811,000 after 666,000 last week.

In Sydney 100% Footy returned with 82,000 in Sydney and Brisbane for episode 2 after launching with 86,000 a week ago.

In Melbourne, Footy Classified, with Chris Judd joining Hutchy, Caroline Wilson and Matthew Lloyd, launched its year with an AFL preview ahead of the season launch on Thursday. The AFL show returned with 108,000 in Melbourne.

TEN

After a Sunday share it won’t want to see again this year, TEN had a slightly better Monday, but it is still missing a major 7.30pm franchise. After just 165,000 on Sunday, All Star Family Feud backed up again with a better audience of 204,000 for its Commonwealth Games sporting legends episode.

Two episodes of Law & Order: SVU followed with 158,000 and then 159,000.

ABC

Australian Story featured an update on Eddie Woo and his YouTube maths channel just a year after the original episode screened. The show did 652,000 after 510,000 a week ago.

Four Corners featured the UK Channel 4 doco on Harvey Weinstein, which did 588,000.

Media Watch was on 588,000 too followed by Q&A with 452,000.

SBS

Great British Royal Ships has taken over the Monday 7.30pm slot from River Cottage Australia with the first episode on 229,000.

Trust Me, I’m A Doctor followed on 204,000 with 24 Hours In Emergency later doing 170,000.