Start the Week: Why 2GB split with Jim Wilson; Closing in on a cricket deal; Mega Meta cuts

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Welcome to the Start the Week podcast, recorded first thing on Monday, looking at the agenda for the week ahead.

Today:

• Cricket, Olympics and tennis rights play out

• Who won the TV ratings week

• Why 2GB moved on from Jim Wilson;

• Kyle & Jackie O’s unusual ratings jump

• Communications minister on the stalled media regulations

• Did the news media bargaining code work?

• More chaos at Twitter

Chris O’Keefe: 2GB’s new drivetime voice

Further reading:

• The Australian: Cricket Australia eyeing off a pre-Christmas broadcast rights deal

• Sydney Morning Herald: Olympic bosses fly in to negotiate Games broadcast deal

• Nine / OzTam: Weekly TV ratings wrap

• Unmade: The mystery of Kyle & Jackie O

• Australian Financial Review: Media giants flush with Facebook-Google money like the new normal

• SMH: ‘Stuck in a rut’: Diversity rules to be overhauled in major media reform

• SMH: Meta Australia braces for impact of global job cuts

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