KAK: Nine’s a sinking ship and the management are animals
One of Nine’s biggest former stars has launched a withering attack on the network management, accusing it of being a sinking ship in financial trouble.
Kerri-Anne Kennerley, who was axed by Nine late last year, made the attack in The Sunday Telegraph as she was confirmed as a contestant on Seven’s Dancing With the Stars. She told the newspaper:
“When people are under stress they don’t always do things as you would expect them to do things and there’s no denying that those Channel 9 executives are under high stress. It’s on the record that they’re being chased by a bunch of banks who will need to resolve their financial issues.
“There are a few parallels between (Nine) and the Costa Concordia: they veer off course, hit the rocks, try to right themselves and sink and the captain gets off first, so let’s see how their year pans out.”
According to an announcement from Seven today, KAK will also be taking part in “a prime time project”. She will also have a role on Weekend Sunrise.
Discussing her holiday on safari, Kennerley compared it to Nine’s HQ saying: “I loved it, seeing all those wild animals, and having worked at Willoughby I was very well placed to deal with them.”
Nine declined to respond to Kennerley’s comments although since her axing the network has continually stressed that she remains in high regard. Mumbrella understands that Nine’s management has taken a view that Kennerley is entitled to air any frustrations about her departure without them firing back.
Nine’s parent company Nine Entertainment Co is facing a testing year with debt to become due over the coming months. Last week the company’s chief operating officer stepped down. The network also suffered the first programming casualty of the year with Excess Baggage dropped from Nine before the main ratings period was under way.
Tim Burrowes founded Mumbrella in 2008. He worked on Mumbrella until 2021. At various points he was editor, content director and editor-at-large.
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And they wasted how much $$$ on the boring waste of time that was Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year? Let’s not mention Ben Elton’s program either shall we? I hope 9 lose their broadcast license because they don’t deserve one.
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Nine network, ninemsn, ACP….what a star studded lineup !!!
Anyone remember when Nine were calling themselves the “national broadcaster” ?
Hubris.
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Remember the hoary old yarn about Frank Packer walking through Nine in Melbourne and asking what that room of blokes doing nothing was for? On being told “they’re the writers, Sir Frank.” said “Well, tell them to do some work.” Eventually they just closed that room down.
When a company who’s job it is to attract eyeballs it can then on-sell to advertisers is run by the “on-sell” side of the business and doesn’t actually employ anybody senior (or in fact anyone junior either) in the “attract eyeballs” department this is what happens.
You can’t just go to Cannes and buy whatever worked last year in the States. Enjoy another ten years of Big Bang Theory repeats.
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Still the One seems to be evolving to Soon the None.
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Channel 10 is in trouble, channel 9 is done for, only 1 more to go!
The internet is providing all the dumb’d down drivel people need now days.
TV has been providing content that is equivalent to fast food – easy to eat but ultimately unsatisfying, McDonalds, the king of fast food, realised the consumers tastes had changes and they reacted.
TV networks should see the parallels and provide some ‘healthy for the mind’ programs.
But then again ch 10 bombed with Negus, so what do I know!
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While there are still bogans, there will be Channel 9.
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… hollow vicotry for Seven though.
Would have been great to see them win the ratings without nine’s executive management and stars jumping ship to the channel.
Seven should include 7 balls in its logo to make the migration complete.
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TV is like Newspapers – fairly irrelevent in this digital age, but some will never let go…
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There’s nothing worse than people bagging out their old employer, especially when they’re down and (it appears) out. Kerri-Anne did pretty well all those years out of the Packers and she was turfed probably because she’s old and tired. We’ll see how well she does in Dancing but personally I hope she trips over on her massively made-up face.
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Good on you KAK for saying what you did You have always been a lady and a great performer, may you buzz the light fantastic on Dancing with the Stars and keep smiling.
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Wow not bitter at all …. But these must be the wild animals she’s talking about: http://www.smh.com.au/environm.....1t0mz.html
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Gotta love bogans commenting about bogans.
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There’s nothing wrong with bagging an old employer and KAK is one of the industry’s nice people, so I’m on KAK’s side
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Maybe she should’ve got a start at channel nine cricket broadcast, nothing much changes here, job for life, wake up channel nine the world is passing, radio is more exciting than your broadcast not to mention other new technology, hello!
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