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

• Implications of the News Corp - Fox Corporation re-merger

• Modernising the anti-siphoning laws

• Who won the ratings week?

• Frankly’s weak ratings start

• Nine and Stan set to lose NBC Universal content

• Carrie Bickmore’s million dollar pay packet

• Ten gets sued by its own employee

• The failing launch of news.net

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

Relevant links:

• Australian Financial Review: Murdoch media merge was news to Australian News Corp executives

• Australian Financial Review: Chanticleer: Murdochs’ reunification is about news, sport and scale

• Unmade: News Corp gets back in bed with Fox News

• Australian Financial Review: Fight begins over access to major sporting events

• Oztam via Nine: The week’s TV ratings

• Patricia Karvelas: Criticism of Fran Kelly's new gig Frankly drips with ageism — a stubborn form of discrimination we need to call out

• The Australian: Cash and Carrie: Bickmore’s $1.1m Ten deal

• The Age: Foxtel clinches NBCUniversal content deal as Stan shifts strategy

• The Australian: Network Ten executive sues employer for $330,000 in unpaid entitlements

• Sydney Morning Herald: This Australian publication wanted to redefine journalism. Then everything went wrong

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