Who Knows What's Next For Television?

LAST week marked the end of Australia's second age of television and the start of the third age. On Monday, Channel Ten farewelled Big Brother, and with it the notion that broadcast TV can save its own life by targeting viewers aged 16 to 39. On Wednesday, the ABC welcomed iView, and with it the notion that people who own computers need never use their TV sets again. Both hastened the doom of the networks as we know them.

Seven Pays Aged-care Provider $250,000

CHANNEL SEVEN has paid a retirement village operator a six-figure sum to settle a defamation proceeding after Today Tonight broadcast footage an 84-year-old resident chained on the premises.

Coverage Too Late And Too Annoying

HOW did it all go so wrong? The Channel Seven/Channel Ten alliance paid a record sum of $780 million for the current AFL television broadcast rights, and has delivered to the people of Melbourne nothing short of a disgraceful coverage.

Wanted: A Political Home For Idealistic Pragmatists

Social networks make it easy to inadvertently broadcast a shocking taste in music, the real reason you didn't turn up at work this morning or an unconventional sexual orientation. They can occasionally unearth a relatively unremarked political phenomenon, too. I discovered recently that an overwhelming sample of my Facebook friends are apparently "left libertarians".