Earlier this afternoon, Channel 9 issued a release to the media. It was unusually short for a 9 media release. Only seven lines long. In fact, short is not so much correct as curt:
Negotiations between Jana Wendt and Channel Nine have concluded with the parties agreeing to part company.
Channel Nine thanks Ms Wendt for her contribution to the Network over many years and wishes her well for the future.
Perhaps Eddie should listen to some of his critics. Paticularly Peter Craven in yesterday’s Age.
Craven points out that having programmes like Sunday and journalists like Wendt in your stable sets you apart from the pack.
This new iteration of Sunday will see us out the season and then I will not be surprised if it doesn’t return next year.
McGuire, it seems, is nothing more than just another Cashed-Up Bogun. The changes he makes to 9 remind me of a CUB conversation I recently overheard in which a decision needed to be made between a BMW and a Mercedes. It was all about image and had nothing to do with the quality of the automobile.
Eddie doesn’t realise that shows like Sunday and high quality journalism and reportage, whatever time it is shown, gives a network a soul where others have none. At least 9 had something they could truly be proud of (as opposed to the showing off of figures they wave in our faces every week). Now it seems there is almost nothing left of any decency in commercial television*.
* except, of course, for James Talia.
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