Tweet
One wrong word[or action] today, and you're finished.
It's basically "bye bye, have a nice life in your future endeavours". Probably a good idea for unemployment benefit to stay at $1,100 FN.
There's "legal" free speech/actions, then there's "all roads lead to lawyers" free speech/actions, "The sponsors are not happy" free speech/actions, "Broadcasting tribunals" free speech/actions, etc.
As Alan Jones allegedly found out.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...1ba44b84e15ccc
Alan Jones and Nine insist “health reasons” sparked his radio retirement but the truth is advertisers walked away after Jones’s spray at New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Adern. Annette Sharp has the inside story.
The odds of broadcaster Alan Jones walking away from his illustrious radio career halfway into his $8 million two-year contract a month ago were long. Very long.“I’d have put him at about 1000 to one. There was just no way he was going to leave of his own volition. There was a greater chance of him being bitten by a horse at Royal Ascot than retiring from 2GB,” one sage media veteran said last week after news of Jones’ radio retirement broke and became the biggest news story of the day in the state.
But those odds shortened considerably two weeks ago when Nine Radio boss Tom Malone paid Jones a visit at his Fitzroy Falls property.
Nine’s official position – which mirrors Jones’s – is that Jones called the meeting and invited Malone to a lunch along with Jones’ agent Nick Fordham.
“It was Alan who invited me down to his farm for lunch,” Malone said yesterday.
“We were able to facilitate Alan’s request to stand down due to health reasons.”
But sources within Nine Entertainment, owner of Nine Radio and stations 2GB and 4BC, are adamant it was Nine that called the meeting.
Time was up.
Eight months after former Macquarie Media boss Russell Tate wrote to 2GB advertisers to apologise and promise a review of Jones’s program after the broadcaster offended women and women’s advocacy groups by suggesting Prime Minister Scott Morrison “shove a sock down” the throat of his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern, new Macquarie owner Nine was cutting its losses.
An advertiser boycott that saw more than 100 advertisers including Coles, Big W, Commonwealth Bank, McDonald’s and Bunnings pull their ads from the radio station – costing 2GB $80,000 a day in ad revenue – had crippled the station.
The cost to Nine of Jones’s Ardern comment is, ad executives say, $20 million; about half of 2GB’s annual ad revenue.
#####
Well there you go.
"Put a sock in it" is a common expression.
Wonder what would've happened if he'd suggested that "Prime Minister Scott Morrison tell Jacinda Ardern to "put a sock in it", instead of what he actually said?
In the movie "Coming To America", that sees the "Prince of 'Zamunda'" [Eddie Murphy] travel to America to find a wife...and after much ado, fall in love ...his parents the King and Queen of "Zamunda" who travelled to America to get him to come home, were sitting in a limo...with the King [James Earl Jones] ranting that his son must marry someone from "Zamunda" who they select for him, as is tradition.
The King's formerly obedient wife then says to him:
"Put a sock in it, Jaffe...the boy's in love"!
It's basically "bye bye, have a nice life in your future endeavours". Probably a good idea for unemployment benefit to stay at $1,100 FN.
There's "legal" free speech/actions, then there's "all roads lead to lawyers" free speech/actions, "The sponsors are not happy" free speech/actions, "Broadcasting tribunals" free speech/actions, etc.
As Alan Jones allegedly found out.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/ne...1ba44b84e15ccc
Alan Jones and Nine insist “health reasons” sparked his radio retirement but the truth is advertisers walked away after Jones’s spray at New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Adern. Annette Sharp has the inside story.
The odds of broadcaster Alan Jones walking away from his illustrious radio career halfway into his $8 million two-year contract a month ago were long. Very long.“I’d have put him at about 1000 to one. There was just no way he was going to leave of his own volition. There was a greater chance of him being bitten by a horse at Royal Ascot than retiring from 2GB,” one sage media veteran said last week after news of Jones’ radio retirement broke and became the biggest news story of the day in the state.
But those odds shortened considerably two weeks ago when Nine Radio boss Tom Malone paid Jones a visit at his Fitzroy Falls property.
Nine’s official position – which mirrors Jones’s – is that Jones called the meeting and invited Malone to a lunch along with Jones’ agent Nick Fordham.
“It was Alan who invited me down to his farm for lunch,” Malone said yesterday.
“We were able to facilitate Alan’s request to stand down due to health reasons.”
But sources within Nine Entertainment, owner of Nine Radio and stations 2GB and 4BC, are adamant it was Nine that called the meeting.
Time was up.
Eight months after former Macquarie Media boss Russell Tate wrote to 2GB advertisers to apologise and promise a review of Jones’s program after the broadcaster offended women and women’s advocacy groups by suggesting Prime Minister Scott Morrison “shove a sock down” the throat of his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern, new Macquarie owner Nine was cutting its losses.
An advertiser boycott that saw more than 100 advertisers including Coles, Big W, Commonwealth Bank, McDonald’s and Bunnings pull their ads from the radio station – costing 2GB $80,000 a day in ad revenue – had crippled the station.
The cost to Nine of Jones’s Ardern comment is, ad executives say, $20 million; about half of 2GB’s annual ad revenue.
#####
Well there you go.
"Put a sock in it" is a common expression.
Wonder what would've happened if he'd suggested that "Prime Minister Scott Morrison tell Jacinda Ardern to "put a sock in it", instead of what he actually said?
In the movie "Coming To America", that sees the "Prince of 'Zamunda'" [Eddie Murphy] travel to America to find a wife...and after much ado, fall in love ...his parents the King and Queen of "Zamunda" who travelled to America to get him to come home, were sitting in a limo...with the King [James Earl Jones] ranting that his son must marry someone from "Zamunda" who they select for him, as is tradition.
The King's formerly obedient wife then says to him:
"Put a sock in it, Jaffe...the boy's in love"!
Comment