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It is nearly that time of year again when the best tennis players in the world descend on Australia for the summer of tennis and the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open. Broadcasting all the action again in 2012 from Melbourne Park will be the Seven Network. Seven’s Summer of tennis however begins […]
Posted by Frost Global on Friday, December 30, 2011 at 10:40 am
Filed under Channel Seven, Channel Ten, Fox Sports, Latest News and Views, One, Television · Tagged with 7TWO, AAMI Classic, Australian Open, Brisbane International, Bruce McAvaney, Casey Dellacqua, Davis Cup, Fox Sports, Hyundai Hopman Cup, John McEnroe, Morilla International, One, Peter Marcato, Seven Network, Sydney International, Tennis, World Tennis Challenge
We reported earlier in the year that leading US online catch-up TV service HULU had applied for registration of its trademark in Australia, fuelling speculation of an Australian launch of the service some time in the near future. HULU is jointly owned by US media companies NBC Universal (Comcast), News Corporation & The Walt Disney Company and has around 260 partners […]
Posted by Frost Global on Thursday, December 29, 2011 at 8:34 am
Filed under Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Channel Nine, Channel Seven, Channel Ten, Foxtel, Internet, IPTV, Latest News and Views, Television · Tagged with ABC, Apple, BBC iPlayer, Comcast, Disney, Fetch TV, FixPlay, Foxtel, Freeview, Hulu, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iTunes, iView, Mark Scott, Microsoft, NBC Universal, News Corporation, NineMSN, Plus7, PS3, Quickflix, SBS, Seven, Sony, T-Box, Telstra, Ten, XBOX 360, Yahoo!, Youview
This week the Gillard Government announced that the Department of Foreign Affairs’ international television network, the Australia Network will now become a permanent feature of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s duties as the national broadcaster, rather than have the network put out to commercial tender. This announcement comes after the Government scrapped that tender process to run […]
Posted by Frost Global on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Filed under Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Latest News and Views, Television · Tagged with ABC, ABC News 24, AFL, AFP, Al-Jazeera, Angelos Frangopoulos, Australia Network, Australian News Channel, BBC World Service, BSkyB, Deutsche Welle, DFAT, Gillard Government, Julia Gillard, News Corporation, NHK World, Nine, NRL, Qantas, Radio Australia, Seven, Sky News, Stephen Conroy