A Current Affair

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• Seven dominates Walkley Awards

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  The Seven Network has dominated the television awards at the 2009 Walkley Awards , the country’s top prizes in media journalism. Seven won four awards, including accolades for Seven News and Today Tonight . The ABC picked up three awards, for Four Corners and Foreign Correspondent . SBS won two, for ...
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• Nine Adelaide drops Kelly Nestor

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  Nine’s Adelaide news presenterKelly Nestor told viewers last night she would be leaving the network, just a day after the station axed its local edition of A Current Affair . “It has been an absolute pleasure and my honour to read the news here at Channel Nine for the past two years,” she said. “My contract ...
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• Airdate: John Safran: The Lost Pilot

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  Ray Martin can probably relax. Vintage footage of him in John Safran: The Lost Pilot may be airing next month on ABC1 but it’s not exactly a prime timeslot. The show will air at 10:10pm Friday December 11th. The episode, in which a young Safran explores methods by which individuals can become media players, has ...
  2 days ago

• Nine axes Perth and Adelaide versions of A Current Affair

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 700
  The Nine Network is axing the local versions of its programme A Current Affair in Perth and Adelaide, blaming the tough economic climate on the decision.   The locally-produced shows will wrap up this Friday at the end of the TV ratings season and will then be replaced by a national version hosted by Tracey ...
  2 days ago

• WIN dumps local ACA format and returns to Tracy Grimshaw

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  WIN-owned affiliates in Perth and Adelaide will abandon their local hosts for A Current Affair and return to broacasting Nine’s East Coast edition hosted by Tracy Grimshaw. Viewers in Perth and Adelaide have had local hosts of ACA since an Adelaide edition began in 2002, but it was short-lived. In 2008 state ...
  3 days ago

• Samantha & Leila in the chair

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  Our 6:30 current affairs shows are about to switch into summer mode. Both Today Tonight and A Current Affair will switch to summer hosts on Monday December 7th -one week after ratings finish. Samantha Armytage will take over the chair on TT while Leila McKinnon steps in to front ACA.
  4 days ago

• Say bye to variety for me

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  The Noughties will end with a nail in the coffin of variety after Rove McManus announced he was winding down his show last Sunday. It closed a ten year chapter for the genre with a string of Logies , A-List guests and live memories to take home. Without any advance warning it also didn’t pull the kind of figures ...
  6 days ago

• Mumbo Report: Ray Martin on how to make live TV look easy; Harry M Miller on why ad agencies need to show more integrity

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 700
    In today’s Mumbo Report from Studio 33: TV presenter Ray Martin warns “We’re driving the audience away”; How 60 Minutes nearly went to Seven; Ray Martin on working for the ABC, A Current Affair and Dance Your Ass Off; Harry M Miller on how ad agencies need to show more integrity   With the ...
  1 week ago

• ACA report branded “powerful attack”

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  A report aired on A Current Affair in August 2008 is at the centre of a defamation case in the NSW Supreme Court today. Sydney plastic surgeon and burns specialist Peter Anthony Haertsch is suing the Nine Network over a story on a Gold Coast ‘meter maid’ whose breast implants went horribly wrong. In the report ...
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• Are we there yet?

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  Are we there yet? Just two weeks to go until the 2009 ratings end, with a baby Rafter , a new Idol , a Celebrity MasterChef , and a first Apprentice all due. Audiences are already showing signs of switch-off as numbers diminish -either from fatigue, daylight saving, multiple entertainment choices or all three. ...
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• A Current Affair

  
  Hands Of Blood — Authority: 127
  Nombre:A Current Affair Estilo:Post Hardcore/Experimental Web: My Space 2007 - Life In An Hourglass EP 2009 - The Real Devastation
  2 weeks ago

• 7TWO ties with GO!

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  It will only be a matter of time before 7TWO has its first win over GO! And it could come as early as tomorrow. Last night both tied on a 2.0% share. ABC2’s Doctor Who repeat was the top show on digital channels last night at 125,000 with 7TWO’s movie Category 7: The End of the World next at 104,000 viewers. ...
  2 weeks ago

• NY Times: A Current Affair at the Berlin Wall

  
  tabloid baby — Authority: 426
  The New York Times solicited readers photos and recollections of the fall of The Berlin Wall. Among them was the encapsulation of the groundbreaking and singular tabloid television coverage by the producers and host of A Current Affair, as recounted in the book Tabloid Baby:"Brandenburg Gate, East Berlin — On the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Race that tops the nation

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  Week 45 saw Seven launch its new digital channel 7TWO with a mix of broad entertainment offering. It addressed the Nine / GO! combo that had upstaged it in the last few months. In sheer audience figures the 2009 Melbourne Cup ’s record 2.56m viewers was the week’s top story. It was even Seven’s biggest audience ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACA ‘Hitman’ hearing delayed

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  Nine reporter Ben Fordham and producer Andrew Byrne have applied for an adjournment in the case that followed an A Current Affair segment 18 months ago. Both have been accused of concealing a serious crime. Fordham is facing charges for posing as an alleged hitman’s accomplice for the story which used a hidden ...
  3 weeks ago

• All the drama of Week 44

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  In Week 44 viewers bid farewell to All Saints after 12 seasons across 11 years. The 70 minute episode ensured the show departed with its reputation intact and possibly signalled the end of an era of long running weekly dramas. It finished on 1.5m viewers -time will tell if Packed to the Rafters ever comes close to ...
  3 weeks ago

• No comment… apart from the one on the billboard

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 700
  You may recall Wicked Campers takes a somewhat unrepentant attitute to the Advertising Standards Board .   The same applies, it would seem, to A Current Affair. After Wicked Campers’ safety standards were examined by A Current Affair , it put up the following sign:
  4 weeks ago

• Ray Martin from cover to cover

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 542
  Ray Martin’s new autobiography, Ray: Stories of my Life , notes how his father George Grace was a violent drinker who would beat his wife and family. The book tells how the family fled to Adelaide when Ray was just 11 years old. His mother changed their surname to Martin. Today he tells the Daily Telegraph his ...
  4 weeks ago

• “Train Stroller Baby” Mother says, “Everything went blank”

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 493
  The Mother of a 6 month-old baby who survived after being run over by a 250-ton train at a suburban railway station in Melbourne told the television programme, “A Current Affair” her son was the “world’s luckiest baby”. Shweta Verma, 29, a dentist from Melbourne, said “everything went blank” when the ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Alighty Ollar

  
  Spatula City — Authority: 124
  So, the Herald Sun are running a well-timed follow-up article about the irresponsible mother letting her brat roll off a railway platform into the path of a train: How I saved train baby BRAVE Melbourne schoolboy Aaron Dryden has been revealed as the shy hero who pulled a tiny baby from under a train at Ashburton ...
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