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Traditional media assets might be cheap at present but Foxtel pay-TV partner Telstra won't be buying -- it has other plans.

FOR almost 50 years Australians faced one of the most limited television channel choices on the planet -- a choice eventually expanded by pay-TV, and then digital programming -- but now the country is about to enjoy almost unlimited choice with the arrival of IPTV in the lounge room.

LAURIE Oakes chose the wife of his former cleaner to launch his latest tome Power Plays: The Real Stories of Australian Politics.

THE online real estate classified market shows no sign of succumbing to the advertising slowdown, according to REA Group chief Greg Ellis, who says the company expects to maintain revenue growth of about 50 per cent this financial year.

MEDIA agency Carat has lured branded entertainment specialist Tim Flattery from the listed Mitchell Communication Group to head a new branded content arm called Carat Engage.

ELECTRONICS retailer Wow Sight and Sound has come from nowhere to be the year's top football club sponsor, generating almost $7 million in media exposure from its naming rights deal with the Brisbane Broncos.

IT'S fair to say no woman can claim she knows John Howard as intimately as his wife Janette. But it's also fair to say Kylie Blackburn is dangerously close to being more of an expert on John Winston Howard than Mrs Howard.

THE commercial TV sector has called for a "last-resort safeguard" to stop the analogue signal being shut off until almost all viewers have a digital set, putting it in conflict with the federal Government.

FINALLY a chance to use the words "history-making" and "groundbreaking" without being accused of exaggeration.