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SECRET ALP polling of swinging voters showed the Coalition's best chance of winning the last federal election was to switch to Peter Costello in 2006
JAMES Warburton has emerged as the favourite to eventually succeed Seven network chief David Leckie after this week becoming Seven Media's sales and digital chief and the second most powerful media sales director in the country, responsible for $1.4 billion in revenue.
JOHN Singleton's Macquarie Radio Network -- which includes Sydney's number one radio station 2GB -- has become the country's second media company to announce a major earnings downgrade, revealing its operating profit will be up to 20 per cent lower in 2008 than in 2007.
Hit Australian TV soap Neighbours has been branded "too white" by black and Asian viewers in Britain.
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BROWNLOW betting has been suspended by two big bookmakers amid fears Geelong star Gary Ablett's foot injury is worse than thought.
ABC foreign correspondent Peter Lloyd faces up to 20 years in a Singapore jail and up to 15 strokes of the cane after being charged with drug trafficking and possession
Greg Norman is just one shot behind British Open leader KJ Choi after the second round of the championship at Royal Birkdale. John Daly just missed the cut shooting 29 over!
AN INTERNATIONAL tax haven crackdown that began with two whistleblowing bankers has not only exposed the private financial affairs of the Australian billionaire Frank Lowy but yesterday forced Switzerland's largest bank to close its doors to US clients wanting offshore accounts
TV RATINGS
THURSDAY 17 JULY
OVER 1 MILLION
- Seven News 1.406 million
- Getaway 1.346 million
- Today Tonight 1.279 million
- Two and a Half Men 1.248 million
- Seven's Bones 1.208 million
- How I Met Your Mother 1.194 million
- My Name Is Earl 1.191 million
- Celebrity Singing Bee 1.188 million
- Home and Away 1.177 million
- 7pm ABC News 1.130 million
- Nine News 1.112 million
- Law And Order SVU 1.048 million
- A Current Affair 1.035 million
UNDER 1 MILLION
- Neighbours 859,000
- The Amazing Race 858,000
- Big Brother 807,000
- Futurama 677,000 and 647,000 at 8pm
- Q&A 524,000
- Inspector Rex 403,000
7am Sunrise, 350,000 - 7am Today, 257,000
THE NETWORKS
Nine won 6pm to midnight All People with a share of 28.1% (27.8% a week ago) from Seven with 28.0% (26.5%), Ten with 19.9% (22.5%), the ABC with 17.0% (17.1%) and SBS with 6.9% (6.1%).
TODAY'S ONE LINER
My mum told me that if I ate my spinach I'd grow up big and strong just like Popeye. What she didn't tell me was that I'd marry a girl who looked like Olive Oyl!'
ON THIS DAY
1963 - Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90
BORN ON THIS DAY
1925 - Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer (83)
OBITUARY
2006 - Jack Warden,
American actor (b. 1920)
