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I am so tired - the only thing holding me together is static electricity!





1969 – First test flight of the Boeing 747.





1944 – Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality
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2006 – Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)

From bone idle to pop idol. After avoiding work for 37 years German Arno Dubel was forced into retraining when his doctor refused to write another sick note. Two record companies offered him a contract with songs written for him: The Jobless Rap and The Dole and Cans of Beer.

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Wheatley `stupid'
over tax papers

ENTERTAINMENT manager Glenn Wheatley yesterday called himself "spectacularly stupid" for keeping at his house documents linked to an offshore tax fraud scheme

ABC boss sticks
by his hubs

ABC managing director Mark Scott will push ahead with the broadcaster's controversial regional broadband hubs and 24-hour news channel, and has flagged further expansion ambitions, including in China

Tune in: digital radio sales beat expectations



MORE than 100,000 digital radios have been sold in Australia six months after the launch of the medium

SUNDAY 07 FEBRUARY

1. Seven News 1.449 million
2. Nine News 1.409 million
3. The Good Wife, 1.407 million
4. Airways 1.327 million
5. Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation 1.323 million
6. Bones 1.211 million
7. Trishna & Krishna: The Quest for Separate Lives, 1.169 million
8. Cricket 1.020 million
9. House 1.010 million
10. The Biggest Loser: Couples, 925,000
    
    News & CA:
    Ten News 414,000. 7pm ABC News, 911,000
    SBS News at 6.30pm, 151,00
    Weekend Sunrise, 304,000
    Landline, 260,000
    Weekend Today, 245,000
    Insiders, 190,000
    Inside Business, 134,000
    Offsiders, 130,000
    Meet The Press on Ten, 42,000
    
    The Wash Up:
    Seven 30.5%
    Nine 26.0%
    Ten 25.4%
    ABC 13.2%
    SBS 4.8%
    
    Digitally:
    Nine's GO was solid with as 4.5% (Nine's main channel, 21.5%), from 7TWO with 2.9% (Seven on 27.6%), Ten's ONE with 0.8% (Ten's main channel, 24.6%), ABC 2 on 0.5%, (ABC 3, 0.3%, ABC 1, 12.4%) and SBS TWO, 0.3%, SBS ONE with 4.5%.

Conroy helped
ex-MP get job

A FORMER Labor politician caught up in electoral fraud allegations was appointed to a key job with the new broadband network following a recommendation by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy

Baillieu in race attack on Brumby



VICTORIA has a serious and increasing problem with racist attacks on Indian students, but the state government is in denial and blaming the victims, Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu said last night

Southern
comfort




A move south also appears imminent for the former 2UE broadcaster Steve Price and his partner, Wendy Black.. Speculation is rife that Price, whose contact with 2UE expires later this month although he finished up on air before Christmas, is set to join John Singleton's joint venture in a new Melbourne talkback station