Annette Sharp

1 week ago | news.com.au | Annette Sharp

The time honoured tradition of passing down a family recipe took a vicious hit this week when best-selling cookbook author and blogger Nagi Maehashi called in the lawyers, inturn setting an internet mob after local rival Brooke Bellamy of Brooki Bakehouse.

1 week ago | news.com.au | Annette Sharp

Five years after daytime talk show The Daily Edition was scrapped by Channel 7, we hear the program, or a show rather a lot like it, is once more on the drawing board at the network. Seven programming execs are seriously stressed about the success of Channel 9 game show Tipping Point. At a series of executive meetings, ideas for remedying the problem have been discussed.

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Annette Sharp

ARN’s million dollar giveaway bore fruit for the KIIS FM Kyle & Jackie O breakfast show in the second radio ratings survey of the year with the duo lifting in their timeslot in the static Melbourne market. The 0.7 per cent market rise delivered to the Kyle & Jackie O show a 5.8 per cent share of the breakfast market in the southern capital – giving the duo bragging rights to having toppled in-strife ABC-Melb for seventh most listened to breakfast show in that market.

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Annette Sharp

OPINION Media executives from across the board were astonished when a little known newspaper editor from Fremantle became the most senior news executive at Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media empire in 2024. Anthony De Ceglie’s appointment was hailed by Seven’s one-week-in-the-chair CEO Jeff Howard as evidence the company was going to “think differently” about news.

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Annette Sharp

EXCLUSIVEJames Packer has confirmed he has offloaded the Beverly Hills mansion he purchased in 2018 to be closer to his then US-based children with ex-wife Erica Packer. The businessman-investor has sold the 12 bedroom house, once home to Hollywood stars Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman, for $US60 million ($A93 million). The figure is $US10 million less than he paid for it in 2018 and down on the $US85 million ($A132 million) the businessman had previously listed the property for in September 2023.