TV NEWS WAR - Media Watch Report July 1999

Coverage from ABC's 'Media Watch' covering one of the pettiest TV News squabbles ever seen - A court fight over the use of the word 'Leading'.
STW9 Claimed, rather cheekily; in Radio promo's that they were Perths "Leading hour of News and Current Affairs" - getting up the goat of TVW7 which had lead it in ratings for yonks. The matter ends up in the supreme court - the result is in the clip.
Also in this clip; coverage of 7's Big News revamp in 1999; in attempt to bolster dire ratings for stations ATN7 Sydney and HSV7.
Video Features:
- Richard Ackland (Host - Media Watch)
- Rick Ardon (TVW7)
- Tina Alteri (STW9)
- David Johnston, Anne Fulwood, David Brown (HSV7)
- Ross Symonds, Anne Sanders, Helen Wellings (ATN7)

[@AccordionManiac]

Thanks for sharing!

[@wilsonm.d6923]

Definitely marks a change to make news look more exciting that ended up catching on for every news bulletin around the world...

[@MisterPolitical1]

Richard Ackland

[@DisneyStudioNetwork]

How did Channel 10 Perth react to that story back then so does ABC Perth? Also ABC copied Channel 4 music in the 80s.

[@cowofthemonth]

media watch has improved... the second half of this is just cynical