Mumbrella live blog: Tuesday, March 11
Welcome to the live blog, our rolling coverage of what you need to know in the world of media as it happens. Refresh the page for the latest updates.
Top stories:
- Video hangout with ADMA and Telstra on new privacy laws
- Sydney radio ratings: Kyle and Jackie O in at number one for FM, 2DayFM audience halves
- Opinion: Eight surprises in the new Sydney radio ratings
- Analysis: Radio bosses say Sydney FM market now ‘a two horse race’
- Commercial Radio Australia tells streaming industry to fend for itself
- Answers for Adam: Should marketers be more like Kyle Sandilands?
- AWARD School uses anonymous comments for new ad campaign
- The revolution sweeping through PR agency structures is to be discussed at CommsCon
5:19pm – Here’s one to warm the cockles of your heart. BMF and 303Lowe are among the latest set of agencies to agree not to use apes in any adverts from now on.
4:35pm – We’re just over a week away from CommsCon, with a whole host of brilliant speakers, and the awards of course next Thursday evening. The latest event announced is a look at the government relations landscape with three expert speakers. See the program here, get the awards shortlist here, book tickets here.
3:55pm – Here’s a piece of afternoon trivia courtesy of the NZ Herald – Ten things you didn’t know about Rupert Murdoch. Well, a couple of things you may have forgotten about him anyway.
2:47pm – We held a video hangout with ADMA’a Jodie Sangster and Telstra’s legal counsel Matthew Leung talking about the Privacy Act which go live tomorrow. Check out the chat here, and put any other questions you have to Jodie via the comment thread on the page.
1.35pm – Commercial Radio Australia’s Joan Warner has told Mumbrella that it is not open to including streaming sites like Pandora and Spotify in the ratings. Full story here.
1.15pm – Nova has told Mumbrella that after today’s bad ratings result for 2DayFM Sydney is now a “two horse race” between them and ARN’s KissFM. Story here.
12:53pm – Eddie McGuire’s breakfast show held on to number one for Triple M in Melbourne by a whisker, but that didn’t stop them releasing this (anchorman inspired?) pic #winning
12:13pm – In non-radio news Telstra has been fined $10,000 after breaching the privacy of 15,000 customers, an offence which from tomorrow could have cost the telco over $1m. We’re talking changes to the Privacy Act with ADMA CEO Jodie Sangster and Telstra legal counsel Matthew Leung at 2pm AEDST today.
11:42am – Not much has changed in Perth, with Southern Cross Austereo’s Mix 94.5 holding onto its number one station title with an audience share of 14.9 per cent. Closest rival Nova Entertainment Group’s Nova 93.7 lags behind with a share of 12 per cent
11:19am – In all the ratings excitement we’ve neglected those of TV, where last night My Kitchen Rules overhauled The Block after temporarily being overtaken on Sunday night. Secrets & Lies on Ten also dropped on its debut numbers last week.
11:01am – In Adelaide ARN’s Mix102.3 held onto its status as the number one station and its ranking as number 1 FM breakfast show which has an audience share of 13.5 per cent.
10.57am – Here’s the moment the Kyle & Jackie O team found they were number one:
10.50am – @Glebe2037 says it all:
10.28am – Mumbrella’s Tim Burrowes has written an opinion piece on what may be one of the most dramatic radio ratings surveys ever. Read it here.
10.15am – In Brisbane 97.3FM has regained the top place in the radio ratings with a 13.4 per cent share, rivals Nova 106.9 and B105 trail behind on 11.9 and 10.5 respectively.
10:00am – In other radio ratings the new teams have had little impact on the Melbourne radio market, with 3AM keeping an all-people share lead and FoxFM keeping the lead in FM stations.
9:30am – Breaking: Kyle and Jackie O are in at number one in Sydney radio ratings as 2DayFm’s audience halves.
8:57am – Here’s an interesting story from British publication Campaign. Apparently Sir Martin Sorrell, boss of WPP, has raked in a cool $42m-worth of shares in the company, as part of a long-term incentive scheme, despite the company scrapping the scheme last year after dissent over the executive pay in 2012.
8:47am – Triple M’s national drive time presenter Joe Hildebrand isn’t worried about this morning’s radio ratings. He tells Ten’s Studio 10 viewers: “We’re blitzing it in Albury Wodonga. Who needs Sydney and Melbourne?”
Meanwhile Studio 10 guest Kate Langbroek, who stepped down from Nova’s Melbourne breakfast show last year, revealed that management had a code they used for her and cohost Dave Hughes. If they were invited to the staff meeting it was good news.
8:29am – It’s the first radio ratings of the year, and with new provider GfK, so to celebrate Commercial Radio Australia has reskinned its Facebook page with the message “Happy survey day”.
8:21am – Adam Ferrier has posed his latest question in the Answers for Adam column. This week – should marketers be more like Kyle Sandilands? Discuss it in the comment thread.
ADMA CEO Jodie Sangster
8:13am – Tomorrow the changes to the Privacy Act come into play, with people misusing data up for a fine of more than $1m. We’re hosting a video hangout with ADMA CEO Jodie Sangster and Telstra lawyer Matthew Leung to talk about the changes, and what you can do yo be ready for them.
8:02am – There’s drama in Wake Up’s Melbourne studio with newsreader Nuala Hafner being hounded by a savage beast, or what looks like a finch, perched next t the windows in the “big glass box” trying to work out how to get out.
7:58am – Morning everyone, and welcome back readers in Victoria and Tasmania. Today’s the day we find out how the biggest shake-up in radio in modern times has shaken out, stay tuned to the live blog to see the results first.
