Start the Week: Curtain closes on Upfronts season; what's to come at SBS?; Catalano enters SCA bidding saga; Seven's new masthead

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Welcome to Start the Week, our Monday scene-setter for the week ahead.

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Foxtel boss Patrick Delany gets upfront

Today:

• The curtain closes on Upfronts season;

• What we learned at Foxtel and Ooh Media’s Upfronts, and what’s to come at SBS;

• The battle to acquire SCA heats up as Antony Catalano enters the arena;

• Seven plots a new east coast-based masthead;

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Further reading:

• Unmade: Media, Unmade

• Unmade: Whale tales and couch comfort as Ooh Media and Paramount share their 2024 plans

• Capital Brief: SCA takes its time on ARN as Catalano waits in the wings

• The Australian Financial Review: Southern Cross trades Grant Samuel for UBS amid takeover

• The Australian: Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media set to launch news website with east coast focus

Today’s episode feature Tim Burrowes and Abe Udy.

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Time to leave you to start your week.

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We’ll be back tomorrow with Tuesdata.

Toodlepip…

Tim Burrowes

tim@unmade.media

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