Start the Week: ScoMo's Tourism Australia mystery (nearly) solved; lessons of media mergers; The Cat's masterplan

Welcome to Unmade’s Start the Week podcast.

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Today’s topics:

• The media merger lessons of results season;

• ScoMo’s mysterious Tourism Australia sacking;

• Is Nine really winning the TV ratings?

• The Cat’s real estate masterplan

Today’s episode features Unmade’s Tim Burrowes and Damian Francis. As always, we’d love to hear what you think at letters@unmade.media

Further reading:

Best of the Week: A tale of two broadcasters - the diverging fortunes of Nine and SCA

Seven delivered two years of improved profits for the first time in its history, so why wasn't the market more impressed?

• The Age: ‘I was gobsmacked when he became prime minister’;

• Weekly ratings (via Nine): August 21 to August 27;

• The Australian: Nine’s claim that it is winning the ratings thrown into doubt by official OzTAM figures;

• The Australian: Networks grumble about Sydney OzTAM ratings

• Sydney Morning Herald: Seven expected to air FIFA Women’s World Cup next year;

• The Australian: Communications Minister Michelle Rowland ‘engages’ AFL, media giants, over TV rights deal

• The Australian: The billionaire and the (ex) journo plot a path to property riches

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