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TV3 kept its lead against TV One in 2009 in the 18-49 demographic – again beating them, and C4’s growth puts them substantially ahead of Prime in the 15-39 demographic.

C4 experienced growth year-on-year in primetime, with a dramatic lift across all demographics by both share and audience numbers.

TV3 again beat TV One in the all important primetime 18-49 demographic. TV3 ended the year with a 23.2% share, with TV One 18-49 experiencing an 11% decline in the same demographic, ending the year with a 20.4% share.

TV3 also beat TV One in the 18-39, 18-49 Auckland, and 18-49 Metro demographics, with a significant lead in 18-49 Metro of 22.6 to 18.6 share.

In 18-49 C4's audience reach lifted year-on-year by 57.1% and in the 15-39 demographic by 40.4%.

C4 experienced share growth in all key demographics and ended the year ahead of Prime in its own demographic of 15-39 as well as beating them in the 18-49 demographic.
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If the rumors are true, they're awesome.  According to the Herald on Sunday, MediaWorks' new head of Television, Ian Audsley, has sent management at TVNZ supplies of Panadol.

This diversion is brilliant for the very reason that up until now, everyone has been speculating about job cuts and big changes at TV3 and how the panadol, if anywhere, should have been distributed at TV3 internally.

Now, however, if the rumors are in fact true then Mr Audsley has declared his intentions and that his real target is TVNZ and if anyone should be feeling unsettled, it should be them.

With a twelve month contract in hand, 2010 is looking to be one exciting year in television.

MediaWorks NZ Ltd today announced the appointment of Ian Audsley as Executive Director, TV. Mr Audsley, formerly Chief Operating Officer of the Nine Network in Australia, will join the Board of MediaWorks NZ Ltd and commence work in January.

Mr Audsley, 48, has a distinguished almost 20 year record of management in Australian television, having been operations head for two regional television stations, Deputy Managing Director of Network Seven’s Melbourne station and Director of Operations for the Seven Network, culminating in being a Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Nine Network in Sydney.

Ian Audsley said he is looking forward to working with the leadership team at MediaWorks TV.

Does anyone else have problems playing the videos?

Yesterday I tried for 3 hours to load last weeks episode of the Jaquie Brown Diaries (I missed the last 5 minutes) without much luck.

A couple of hours ago I upgraded Adobe Flash and had another go and it still wouldn't play.

I have no problem watching videos on Youtube.

Mediaworks chief executive, Brent Impey, has announced he is stepping down at the end of 2009.

A new role, Mediaworks TV chief executive, is being created. A search is currently under way for someone to take on this exciting new opportunity.

Impey will remain in a consultancy role until 2011.

TV3 have announced their line up for 2010 and this year there are some real gems in the line up.

Check out the trailers below for the new shows coming to TV3:

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