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Eddie McGuire complication spells trouble for AFL TV rival
By Tyson Otto.

CHANNEL 7 footy TV stars are concerned Monday night panel show Talking Footy will be cancelled over an Eddie McGuire complication.

The Herald Sun reports popular Seven personalities Wayne Carey, Luke Darcy, Tim Watson and Sam McClure loom as the big victims in the ongoing shake-up to Melbourne’s footy media landscape which has spread across almost every TV and radio network in AFL heartland.

The fears for the Channel 7 show’s future centre around McGuire’s return to The Footy Show in 2017 and his media production company JAM TV, taking over control of the Channel 9 Thursday night footy icon.

JAM TV is also responsible for producing Taking Footy on Seven.

Channel 7 executives are reportedly uncomfortable with the arrangement and want to investigate the possibility of replacing JAM TV with a rival production company.

Seven is also considering producing the show in-house.

Any change of production company has the potential to get messy and talents in front of the camera and behind the camera are facing uncertain futures.

The Herald Sun reports Seven is confident the show will return in 2018, but admit it remains unclear who will be responsible for running the popular program.

“A final decision won’t be made until after the Australian Open and the Winter Olympics,” a Seven insider said.

The JAM TV team responsible for producing The Footy Show will return to work this week, with their own show still trying to find its feet after a turbulent 2016 and 2017.

It was reported earlier this week, Footy Show favourite Shane Crawford is set to pull the pin with a year still to run on his contract and walk away from the Thursday night show.

Crawford is reportedly set for a showdown with Footy Show bosses at the end of January after he registered his dissatisfaction with what he believes is a diminished role on the show.

With popular larrikin Billy Brownless also pushed to the side in recent years, The Footy Show is reportedly considering reaching out to veteran funnyman Trevor Marmalade to make a return.

Marmalade is being considered among the options of candidates to replace Dave Hughes.

Hughes left Channel 9 in October to host his own show Uncle Agony in 2018.

The Footy Show and Talking Footy upheaval is just the tip of the iceberg in the rumbling footy media landscape in Melbourne.

Channel 9’s Footy Classified Show on Monday nights is still looking for a panellist to replace Garry Lyon, who was unveiled as one of the new faces moving to Fox Footy for the 2018 AFL season.

West Coast and Carlton legend Chris Judd is reportedly among the favourites to replace Lyon at Nine.

Lyon’s move also has implications for the rapidly-changing Melbourne radio scene.

The Demons legend is continuing in his Breakfast radio timeslot with SEN alongside Tim Watson.

It comes after Fox Footy and former ABC personality Gerard Whateley sensationally announced he will join SEN this year to take up the 9am to midday shift.

Richmond icon Kevin Bartlett is being moved from that shift to the drive-time afternoon slot.

Whateley has been the ABC’s chief commentator for 13 years, but was sensationally moved on in the middle of an Ashes series over a dispute with ABC management over the timing of his exit.

Whateley is the first big name recruit SEN has landed since Craig Hutchison’s CrocMedia announced it will merge with SEN original owner Pacific Star Network.

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I thought T marmalade had died.

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Just his jokes

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Does he play any music from non-seminal albums these days?

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fify

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I don’t think so.

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Chris ■■■■■■■ Judd. And we thought things couldn’t get worse.

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He’s actually quite funny.

Hate the guy but he’s not bad and he doesn’t censor himself.

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“I know I wouldn’t take anything if I didn’t know what it was …”

“Whats in the magic Blue Drink?”

“I don’t know” …

Yeah, … he’s a ripper.

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Farkin hell.

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And power. Those who are loyal to the AFL are always rewarded handsomely.

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JANUARY 8 2018 - 12:22PM

Pacific Star Network to buy sports content business Crocmedia
Jennifer Duke

Radio broadcaster and magazine publisher Pacific Star Network has announced its intention to merge with sports content and entertainment business Crocmedia.

Under the merger, Pacific Star Network will issue 91.6 million shares to Crocmedia’s shareholders and executives in exchange for 100 per cent of the equity in the sports content firm.

The merger is still subject to shareholder approval to be held at a general meeting in March.

Pacific Star Network is known for its AM commercial broadcasting licences and broadcasts on 116 SEN and Classic Rock Radio, as well as three digital stations; AUSSIE, KOOOL and Rythmos.

The merger would “create a leading sports content and entertainment business of scale with complementary services across multiple media platforms, providing a clear point of differentiation and an attractive platform for growth,” a release to shareholders on Monday said.

Crocmedia’s business also includes an events arm, boutique creative agency, talent management, branded content and racing media sales.

The combined group will have two Melbourne-based broadcast licences and syndication agreements with 200 frequencies in 88 radio markets across metropolitan and regional Australia.

Pacific Star Network chairman Craig Coleman told shareholders the proposed merger was “transformational” for the business and would create a platform for future growth, allowing them to provide brand partners with multiple platforms.

It also allowed them to leverage the “combined platform and operational expertise with other potential sports rights opportunities”.

And it would allow the companies to cut costs, with $3 million worth of savings in “cost synergies” calculated.

Walkley award winner Craig ‘Hutchy’ Hutchison, a well known sports broadcaster, co-founded Crocmedia in 2006.

Under the merger, Mr Hutchison will be the future chief executive and managing director of Pacific Star Network.

"We look forward to growing even further nationally and beyond and being the best place to connect fans to stars, and brands to fans,” Mr Hutchison said.

Crocmedia became an umbrella holder of AFL rights in a six-year radio rights deal signed in late-2016, allowing it to oversee programming and match-day calling agreements with AFL broadcasters across the country.

In 2014, Pacific Star Network spent $10.8 million to buy Morrison Media Services, a publisher of titles including Frankie, Smith Journal and SEN Inside Football.

Last year, Pacific Star Network closed loss-making titles Slow, Surfing Life and White Horses. It also closed its Gold Coast office to centralise in Melbourne.

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They just hand these out like toys with a Happy Meal, yeah?

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As the merger was announced Pacific Star shares rose 5c to 0.32 valuing Crocmedia at about $30M and the market cap of the merged entity at about $55M

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I won my Walkley at a primary school fete.

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I picked up mine from the remainders bin at Communcation Specialists R Us.

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Think I’d rather win a double pass to Bacchus Marsh Lion Park

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Are farkcarlton fans on bicycles still admitted free?

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You are f***g kidding me ! I don’t have rose coloured glasses but anyone who doesn’t believe the club was unfairly targeted by those cts at the at the AFL is seriously uninformed.

  1. Dank was at the Gold Coast an AFL incorporated club when Bock retired mysteriously - no action taken.

  2. Dank was at Melbourne when Viney took AOD964 cream for his foot , - no action.

  3. The last premiership coach before the saga was blown up - Alistair Clarkson gets interviewed by the media as to what extent he is involved with supplements at his club? He responds by saying I’m the coach, that’s not up to me, yet Hird is targeted as the main culprit.

  4. Eddie Maguire on MMM the next morning after it turns to ■■■■■ says the first thing he did was ring his operations manager and ask if “we are clean”

these are but a few items that come to mind, and there many hundreds more points by greater men than me that can be raised but lets not let the facts get in the way.

Whately is an AFL lackey like that stupid C***t he works on 360 with each night. For an intelligent person he knew the saga was unfairly wrong on the players and possibly the club but chose to follow the AFL company line.

He can go and get F*****d at SEN (Shithouse Entertainment Network).

Bunch of C***ts - all of them, all of them !

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