ASX-listed marketing company IVE Group has acquired Australian Community Media's printing operations in Mandurah and signed a contract to print and distribute the company's newspapers.
Having worked hard to adapt to the digital threats of an evolving media market, many publishers and broadcasters are now struggling with the impacts of COVID-19.
Nine Entertainment has reported an annual net loss of more than $500 million after a challenging year when advertising earnings slumped and the coronavirus pandemic took hold.
Nine Entertainment, BlueScope Steel and more companies have joined the flood of listed firms cancelling their earnings forecasts as coronavirus chaos spreads.
Prime Media says it is consulting with Seven West Media after reports two of its major shareholders would block Seven's takeover of its regional affiliate.
Nine looks set to take sole ownership of Macquarie Media, with an offer unveiled on Monday that values the 6PR, 2GB and 3AW talk radio owner at $275.4 million.
Nine Entertainment has agreed to sell its regional and community newspapers for $115 million, offloading about 170 titles acquired last year in its merger with Fairfax Media.
The editor of The West Australian, Brett McCarthy, has resigned with immediate effect, after nearly a decade at the helm of the state's only major newspaper.
Fairfax Media has less than three weeks left as an independent entity after its shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of the 175'-year-old company's merger with Nine Entertainment.
The competition watchdog will allow Fairfax Media's $4 billion merger with Nine Entertainment to go ahead after deciding the move would not diminish competition in Australian news and media.
Nine Entertainment and Fairfax Media have announced a surprise move to combine into a single $4 billion media giant they say will reach more than half of Australia through television, online, print and radio.
The Seven Network and Foxtel have won the bidding war for cricket's TV rights, paying almost $1.2 billion and ending the four-decade relationship between the sport and the Nine Network.
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.
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.
A merger between Southern Cross Austereo and affiliate partner Nine Entertainment isn't on the cards even if the federal government's media reforms get through the Senate.
Fairfax Media shares have jumped to a five-week high after the struggling company's board said it was considering an unsolicited $2.2 billion proposal to split up its businesses, while a reduction in television licence fees planned for the budget has boosted listed TV networks.
Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has named non-executive director and former Helloworld and Heytesbury executive, Elizabeth Gaines, as its new chief financial officer.
Nine Entertainment has come close to a first strike against its remuneration report as shareholders railed against the high pay awarded to executive and non-executive directors despite the broadcaster's disappointing performance.
Netflix rival Presto will close at the end of January after Seven West Media agreed to sell its 50 per cent stake in the streaming service to co-owner Foxtel.
Nine Entertainment has negotiated its way out of a costly contract to broadcast US TV shows and is refocusing on local content in response to disappointing ratings.
Regional television viewers in Western Australia have lost Channel Nine coverage after negotiations between the national TV player and a broadcast joint venture between Prime and WIN failed to reach an agreement last night.
Creditors of movie streaming service Quickflix changed administrators to Deloitte, just two weeks after the company voluntarily appointed partners from Ferrier Hodgson.
Cottesloe-based online streaming service provider Quickflix has gone into voluntary administration, blaming rival Stan Entertainment for its need to take the decision.
Nine Entertainment has taken a 9.99 per cent stake in regional broadcaster Southern Cross Media, in the first of many moves expected in the sector as players position themselves ahead of a likely change in ownership rules.
Former treasurer Peter Costello will lead Nine Entertainment Co through what the group hopes will be sweeping changes to media regulation in Australia.
The sale of 16 private businesses worth an estimated $500 million helped to sustain activity in what was otherwise a depressed market for mergers and acquisitions in the September quarter in Western Australia.
