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rabid dog's breakfast

CHANNEL 10 has confirmed that Breakfast will return in 2013, despite it rating only one tenth of its rivals.

Ten’s breakfast show, hosted by Paul Henry with Kathryn Robinson, has been a distant third in its early morning time slot this year.

Seven’s Sunrise is winning the breakfast battle with 364,000 viewers nationally in 2012. Nine’s Today is a close second with 330,000.

Breakfast has averaged 36,000 since it debuted on February 23. That is well short of its first year target of 100,000 viewers.

“All our existing (news) shows are continuing,” Ten spokesman Neil Shoebridge says.

Confirmation that Breakfast will return comes a week after Ten announced savage cuts to its news and operations sections.



Read more: http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/television/paul-henrys-breakfast-program-set-to-return-in-2013-says-channel-10/story-e6frfmyi-1226503647891#ixzz2ANP6OAXe 

rabid loopy dog's breakfast...

Paul Henry - Breakfast Co-Host

Paul’s bold perspectives and irreverent approach have earned him a place as one of New Zealand’s most recognisable and popular media personalities.

Straight talking, and with a willingness to say what’s on people’s minds, Paul brings a fresh perspective to the day’s breaking News and Current Affairs, making him the perfect choice for TEN’s Breakfast.

http://tenbreakfast.com.au/paul-henry.htm

A fresh perspective on new ways to be obnoxious, stupid and full of crap...

If this is supposed to represent what's on people's minds, well, the planet is in more trouble than I ever imagined...

thin-waisted and vacuous-brained fox presenter...

A Fox News presenter has brought more controversy to the notoriously right-wing broadcaster by suggesting that poor families could benefit from having to rely on food stamps as it could help them diet.

Asked during The Five show if she could survive on food stamps – which provide an average food subsidy of $133 (£83) a month for hard-up families – Andrea Tantaros said: "I should try it because do you know how fabulous I'd look? I'd be so skinny. I mean, the camera adds 10 pounds, it really does."

The 33-year-old TV host offered no apology later, tweeting: "It's amazing how stupid & humorless some liberals can be." She also referred to government adverts which she claimed were "telling us food stamps wld make us LOOK GREAT."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/fox-tv-presenter-andrea-tantaros-says-food-stamps-are-fabulous-diet-8344850.html

bloodlettings...

DESPITE being axed from Channel Ten, failure is not a word which tumbles easily from controversial television personality Paul Henry's lips.
Speaking for the first time about his dumping from Ten's overhyped and underperforming foray into breakfast television, Henry admitted he was ''very disappointed'' by the network's decision to dump him, arguing all he needed was ''a little more time''.
However, with a contract personally overseen by Ten director Lachlan Murdoch, and rumoured to be worth $1 million, and without an audience to justify it, Henry has been shown the door, along with 100 colleagues at the beleaguered network.
It has been one of the ugliest bloodlettings at the network in years.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/private-sydney/bucks-on-board-for-boyd-20121123-29yur.html#ixzz2D7VAa0of
Yes, all he needed was ''a little more time'' to make more of an ass of himself....

growing lemons...

 

Did we see yet another suicide note from a senior manager at Ten when the latest CEO, former News Corporation executive Hamish McLennan, promised to move away from the focus on younger audiences? It was a line he repeated in interviews with The Australian Financial Review and The Australian this morning, with the added news he is going to do a strategic review (yes, another one) on the network and its future direction.

Changing the network’s audience focus was tried (and failed) by the bloke before him, James Warburton, who was “terminated” by the Ten board late Friday. He was effectively sacked by Lachlan Murdoch, James Packer, Gina Rinehart and Bruce Gordon (owner of WIN), who collectively own more than 40% of the shares and completely dominate the board. The same group supported the sacking of Grant Blackley and Nick Falloon as chairman and CEO of Ten in 2010.

read more: http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/02/25/another-revamp-wont-save-murdochs-ten-debacle/

Somewhere on this site I have given serious advice to the ten board... but who knows... These days, I'm just a satirist who grows lemons...

 

not watching...

 

Together they entered the studio looking uncannily like Tony Abbott with his all-female entourage. Coincidence? It's another truism that the male presence at the morning TV clam bake is tokenistic yet central. A contradiction inside a conundrum, it goes halfway to explaining why the bombastic and aggressive Paul Henry was such a fizzer on Breakfast, Studio 10's short-lived predecessor.

Henry's greatest gift to the Channel Ten was the low-as-you-can-go ratings base Studio 10 finds itself working off. A strategic decision to launch on an unofficial public holiday gave it an easy trot into the timeslot. In fact, "strategic" could define the rest of the Studio 10 approach. The panel runs along centrist lines – no socio-political radicals here, a la Lisa Oldfield on Nine's The Catch Up – and diligent rehearsals have paid off with relaxed banter.

Sure, guest panellist Mishel Laurie, a regular on the same network's The Panel, did more than her fair share of the heavy lifting, but Hildebrand, when he's not mugging at the camera, is blessed with the louche charm and quick quip of the lovable rogue. The Daily Telegraph columnist brings a cosy relationship with the Murdoch stable: news topics for discussion – if you count a man suing a police horse as news – are gleaned from the pages of the Sydney tabloid and its Melbourne sibling the Herald Sun.

In effect it's more like a game of scruples than an informed analysis of current affairs. This panel has things to say but not the platform to say it. Instead it's: should office romances be kept secret? Do men fake it in bed? The sole occasion the Studio 10 panel strays onto real news – the Electoral Commission's loss of 1300 WA Senate votes – won't be news to anyone who read the weekend newspapers. Or Friday's.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/studio-10-sinks-below-waves-of-dross-20131104-2wwfj.html#ixzz2je5UFO3f

Gus: one could cry to note so much energy going down the gurgler...

As well, listening to the radio, guests and hosts talk at 100 hundred miles an hour to avoid one tenth of a second silence and one can only despair... They say a lot and a lot of things and I cannot remember one item of value. Not even the story about the ancestral 150 year-old who has been a Ned Kelly fanatic since he was twelve made any sense, except there must be a book about it and the author is doing the usual promotion round... I don't know.  The words came out like bullets from a fully automatic assault weapon, with no breathing in between... Whatever got hit got hit... Yes, hosts and guests on RN (formerly known as Radio National) are so intense with trying to extract as much as possible from the time-slot, they make dry fruit juice concentrate feel like water... No value except too much stuff — either the whole story is told and I don't need to buy the book or the story is that I know more because I have studied Red Ned and Ned Kelly together since I came onto these blabby shores.

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