Seven and Nine go ad-free for Royal Wedding

Tim Burrowes

May 19, 2018 4:27

Australia’s two major commercial television networks will drop advertising for the duration of tonight’s Royal Wedding ceremony .

Both Nine and Seven are ditching their normal schedules to cover the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Nine will feature the BBC’s coverage while Seven will turn to ITV’s Tim Ewart.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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3 COMMENTS

Jonny 19 May 18

Pretty sure we are currently in an ad break…

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Tim Burrowes 19 May 18

Hi Jonny,

The ceremony hasn’t started yet… this is just the ad-friendly build-up

Cheers,

Tim – Mumbrella

Anonymous 8 May 19

Magpies fan here in miserable Sydney across the board nearly one year later, I still remember May 21 2018, Collingwood vs St Kilda, Rex Hunt’s last call, and this damned wedding wiped everything off. I don’t have Foxtel, and I can’t remember any other time that I nearly felt like shooting my television.

Seven filling its main channel for the wedding while moving the Swans vs Dockers to 7mate and me not having foxtel so completely wiping off any chance of watching Pies vs Saints, same channel change happened here in Sydney.

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