Free TV: billions of dollars, millions of people and thousands of jobs
• Ad revenue fell across all five major capital city markets in the 12 months ended June 30.
• An independent review on the research results was completed by Movio, Pollinate and Deloitte
• Annika Smethurst, Ben Roberts-Smith, Tom Krause, Seven, ABC News Breakfast, Foxtel, and HBO Max
• Lawrence Mooney gets all the good gigs – returns for second year
• NRL, Facebook, Google, Regional publishing, Podcasts, Have You Been Paying Attention, The Weekly, Olympics, AFL and Rugby Union
• Big Tech, Cardinal George Pell, Dr Norman Swan, Amal Clooney and John Edwards
• The Sydney market was the hardest hit, with revenue down 16.4% to $47.360 million.
• CRA has called on the Government to implement measures to support the industry’s sustainability
• In Australia, Acast now exceeds 20 million Australian listens each month.
• AFL, Dean Wells, Australian podcast market, Neighbours + Warren Brown
• All markets were lower in the December quarter
• Seven, Prime Media, Hoyts, Nine, The Regional Grant Opportunity program, Triple M, 2GB, Carrie Bickmore, and Bruce McAvaney
"The results were not unexpected given the challenging overarching economic influences"