Adapting services to include new digital platforms is a key focus for the major players in Perth’s communications sector led by Cannings Purple, which has maintained its top spot on the Business News ranking of the state’s largest public and investor relations firms.
Nine Entertainment has snatched Australian tennis broadcasting rights from long-term holder Seven Network for $60 million per year, in the latest plot twist in the current sports rights negotiations.
Telstra is being taken to court by the consumer watchdog, and is facing fines of up to $10 million and user refunds of $5 million after the telco allegedly charged its own customers unawares through a third-party billing service.
Internet service providers Dodo, iPrimus and M2 Commander will compensate almost 6,000 customers after admitting they likely breached consumer law by offering national broadband network speed plans they could not deliver.
TPG Telecom has lifted its full-year guidance after first-half underlying profit rose, but the internet provider’s two subsidiaries, iiNet and Internode, are being forced to compensate 11,000 customers following an investigation by the consumer watchdog.
Advertising agency Marketforce is going through a clean sweep of its leadership, with Paul Coghlan recruited to replace senior creatives Pat Lennox and Ben Green, who are leaving in June to start their own consultancy.
Seventeen months after Perth investor Anthony Grist left the board of Vocus Communications after failing to secure backing for a leadership shake-up, the three former M2 Group directors who retained control at that time have all resigned from the underperforming telco business.
News Corporation and Telstra have struck a deal that will see Foxtel and Fox Sports will merge into a single company by the end of June, with current Foxtel chief executive Patrick Delaney at its head.
Vocus chief executive Geoff Horth has left the company by mutual agreement with the board, a week after the telco posted a sharp fall in profit and cut its outlook.
A new book by Meerkats co-founder Mike Edmonds, Truth, Growth, Repeat, expounds a business philosophy influenced by four decades of advertising industry experience, good and bad.
Strong ratings and a dominant share of the free-to-air TV revenue market have driven a 55 per cent increase in Nine Entertainment's half year underlying profit.
Seven West Media's first-half profit has risen to $100.7 million but the broadcaster has temporarily suspended its dividend to focus on managing expenses.
The state’s largest residential builder has enlisted local advertising agency Marketforce to deliver the marketing and strategic requirements across its six divisions for 2018.
Melbourne-based Crocmedia, which is merging with a listed company backed by Perth investment group Viburnum Funds, has been announced as the radio partner of Optus Stadium for the next five years.
Nova 937 chief Gary Roberts has been in radio all his life, with his many industry achievements including launching two successful radio stations in Perth – 22 years apart.
The consumer watchdog has launched federal court proceedings against Optus, alleging the telco pressured customers to move to the national broadband network sooner than required.
The consumer watchdog will review the standard of service NBN Co delivers to retailers as the largest retailer, Telstra, warns of slim margins due to the wholesale price NBN Co charges.
The Foreign Investment Review Board will not oppose the sale of the Ten Network to CBS, leaving one last obstacle to the takeover of the troubled free-to-air broadcaster by the US media giant.
Vocus Communications is aiming to sell its New Zealand business by the end of June as part of the internet provider's strategy of offloading non-core assets to slash debt.
Advertising and marketing agencies Marketforce and Longtail have won new contracts with Avivo and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia respectively.
Telstra says competition in the telecommunications sector remains tough and concedes it will probably lose customers to smaller rival TPG Telecom when the market newcomer establishes its own mobile phone network.
