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News, current affairs, reality shows and live sport.That's what you can expect to dominate free-to-air TV as the networks battle for a dwindling advertising dollar.

Kerry Stokes' Seven Group Holdings fears its earnings could fall 10 per cent in the year ahead, with trading conditions in the resources sector still challenging.

Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media has suffered a $1.88 billion full-year loss after making major write-downs to the value of its TV assets.

Brownes Dairy believes it has benevolently quelled a social media revolt sparked by its move late last year to alter its flavoured milk recipes.

Firstly, you’ve got to love what you do; then you must find a way to share that love with your social media audience.

The ABC will close its brick and mortar shops and focus on online retail in a move that will slash 300 jobs.

Two local independent music-media rivals have announced plans to combine their businesses, leveraging off each other’s print and online strengths to create a single print masthead and online portal.

Seven West Media has made four new board appointments including former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett and iiNet founder Michael Malone.

Foxtel will take a 15 per cent stake in Network Ten after the two broadcasters signed a long awaited deal to bolster the third-placed free to air TV network.

Film and TV streaming service Quickflix has raised $775,000 from investors as it strives to compete with new competitors like Netflix.

Kerry Stokes' Seven Group Holdings has increased its stakes in energy companies Drillsearch Energy and Beach Energy.

Singapore-based management consultancy firm The Project Group has become a major sponsor of Hockey Australia with a deal that could be worth more than $500,000 if the Kookaburras and Hockeyroos win

Network Ten has warned it is nearing the limits of its $200 million loan and may need to raise more money as it attempts to boost ratings and lagging advertising revenue.

Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media is tapping investors for up to $612 million to help it reduce its $1 billion pile of debt.

Streaming service Quickflix says the launch of rival Netflix has sparked interest in the industry and helped it attract thousands of new customers.

Seven Group Holdings has announced that Ryan Stokes, the 38-year-old son of company chairman Kerry Stokes, will replace Don Voelte as chief executive.

Nine Entertainment shares have jumped by nearly 10 per cent after the media group said it had tripled first-half profit and announced a $150 million share buyback.

Shares in Kerry Stokes' Seven Group Holdings have soared on the firm's plans for a share buy-back and despite a 74 per cent drop in first-half profit to $68.4 million.

Following the money is always the best way to see what interests a rich man because it tells you two things – what he likes as an investment for future growth, and what he sees as having reached the limits of growth.

Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media has suffered a near $1 billion half-year loss after being forced to write down the value of its TV and newspaper businesses; underlying net profit, however, was only 8 per cent lower at $137.6 million.

Two of Perth's top radio stations are under new ownership after Fairfax Media sold 96FM for $78 million and merged its other national radio assets, including 6PR, with Macquarie Radio Network.

Quickflix is going cap in hand to its customers for money after shareholders snubbed the online streaming service's latest capital raising.

Fairfax Media's radio merger talks with the owner of Sydney station 2GB are back on.

Struggling TV broadcaster and takeover target Ten Network is hoping for a pick-up in the advertising market this financial year.

Digital media is growing its presence in WA's mass market as familiar names fight to stay relevant.

A local tech startup is planning to be the next big thing in social media.

The bids are in but would-be buyers of Network Ten appear to be playing hard ball.

More than 400 people are set to lose their jobs at the ABC as the public broadcaster seeks to offset federal government funding cuts.

Jobs are to go at the ABC as the national broadcaster works out how it will operate with $254 million less in government funding over the next four years.

Seven West Media is warning of a 10 per cent a slide in its first-half profit due to softer-than-expected television advertising.

While its rivals are agitating for an overhaul of media ownership laws, Seven is preaching caution.

Network Ten has been the unloved step-sister of Australian TV in recent years but a string of would-be fairy godmothers are lining up to give the struggling broadcaster a Cinderella-like makeover.