Monday Afternoon Tea: Tid Bits of News

Some little snippets of news for you, while you have your afternoon coffee, tea, or soda beverage.

[The Spy Report] Despite being the face of expensive flop THIS Afternoon, co-host Katrina Blowers reportedly has a future at the Nine Network [...] Blowers, who worked on Today as a contributor to its What’s Making News segment, only signed to the ill-fated program, rather than the network, unlike her former co-host Andrew Daddo.

Channel 9 cares about Blowers, nobody else seems to.

[What's on the Tube] The Seven Network has refused to pay out a Deal or No Deal winner after he lied about not having any criminal convictions. Tony Webber won $9,500 on the hit game show, but Seven will not pay because Webber served jail time for driving offences for which he did not declair to the network.

Now all we need is for Seven to say “No Deal” to Dancing With the Stars, because that’s truly criminal.

[Variety]Walter Cronkite dies at 92 CBS News veteran was hailed ‘most trusted’ in biz.

While this news is everywhere, and coverage is becoming hyperbolic (like a certain Black man turned into a White woman recently), we need to remember that this is the standard of TV news journalism we should be aiming for.

[mUmbrella] Government’s YouTube push for digital TV switchover anything but ready: [...] Efforts by digital minister Stephen Conroy to use YouTube as a means of selling the digital TV switchover have met with a slow response with less than five people per month subscribing to the channel. Eight months after the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy set up the DBCDE YouTube channel, it has just 38 subscribers. Of the 11 videos posted to date, only one has (just) had more than 1000 views. As an (entirely unfair) point of comparison, if the population of Australia took as long to switch to digital as they have to subscribe to the YouTube channel, Australia would not be ready for digital switchover for another 367,000 years. The current deadline is the end of 2013.

Not wanting to contradict them, but I think that’s an ENTIRELY fair point of comparison.

[via Twitter @channeltenpress] 3.7 million people (peak 4.1 million) tune in to see Julie become Australia’s first MasterChef!

Holy poop on a stick! If you want to see some charming table that show what a TROUNCING the other networks took, have a look at the tables over at What’s on the Tube. (PS Marry me Danny!)