Deal Puts Kokoda Back On Track

THE RSL has welcomed a breakthrough deal that will protect Papua New Guinea's Kokoda Trail for future generations. ? Footage of the Anzac Day dawn service at Gallipoli will be available for live broadcast on all Australian television networks, after ABC Television yesterday backed away from its demands for delayed coverage.

Gang Trial Judge Hits At Media

A JUDGE has delivered a scathing attack on media coverage of the Melbourne gangland war while continuing her ban on the planned Today Tonight broadcast titled "Crime Mums".

Fox Determined To Hog The Ball Despite Nine's Millions

Claims Aussie football's next TV deal may top $100 million a year are not far-fetched. That figure may even be undervalued when you consider Channel Nine has again been rebuffed in a bid to broadcast A-League matches. Nine had been trying to nail a deal with Fox Sports, the rights holder, that would allow the free-to-air network to show an A-League game live each week next season - but the pay-TV operator has refused to budge, even though Nine is willing to flash cash. Football Federation ...

Cut Games, Cut Cash

ONE of the AFL's major broadcasters has said that any moves to shorten the season to 17 games could significantly reduce the value of broadcast rights.

Radio Station Plays Its Pet Sounds

IF YOU believe 2MBS radio station's manager, Mike Smith, he has broadcast classical music for a Huntsman spider in Penrith, a budgerigar in Gosford and an earthworm that burrowed its way here from France.