Now, as we draw tonight and the year of Media Watch to a close, we wanted to give a special shout-out to our army of spies at home who with keen eyes and keener minds have sent us snafus galore that don\u2019t always make it to air, or not on Media Watch anyway:<\/p>\n
PETER OVERTON:\u00a0And Nine\u2019s political editor, Charles, ooh excuse me, Charles Croucher joins me from Canberra. Charles,\u00a0 \u2026<\/p>\n
– Nine News 6pm (Sydney), 10 April 2025<\/p>\n
From cueing the wrong tape:\u00a0<\/p>\n
PETER MITCHELL:\u00a0Australian women are being given more choice when it comes to contraceptives.\u00a0<\/p>\n
From Saturday NuvaRing will be added to the PBS. Ah, we apologise for that, that\u2019s clearly the wrong story \u2026\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
– Seven News 6pm (Melb), 27 October 2025<\/p>\n
To hitting the wrong button.<\/p>\n
ABC STING:\u00a0\u2026 Drive with Ellen Fanning \u2026.<\/p>\n
PRODUCER:\u00a0Why did she hit delay? Oh shit! She shouldn\u2019t have hit delay. I told her not to go into delay. Fuck!<\/p>\n
– Drive with Ellen Fanning, ABC Radio Brisbane, 9 April 2025<\/p>\n
There were crimes against the chyron too, like when a dastardly governor-general dissolved Parliament House, with no word on whether those inside were okay.<\/p>\n
And during the fun-and-games of Cyclone Alfred.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Are we certain that\u2019s mud they\u2019re covered in?<\/p>\n
There was also this moment when probably for the first time in his long career Bruce McAvaney mistimed his call of the iconic Stawell Gift:<\/p>\n
BRUCE MCAVANEY: \u2026\u00a0what a view that is for the athletes and for all of us, so \u2026<\/p>\n
– Stawell Gift 2025, Seven, 21 April 2025<\/p>\n
On the Apple Isle viewers of Seven got a glimpse into surely an unintentional office romance:<\/p>\n
NICK KELLY:\u00a0Kim, I\u2019ll have all that and more when I return a little later.<\/p>\n
KIM MILLAR:\u00a0Love you, thank you. Love you! Haha \u2026\u00a0that\u2019s a bit much, isn\u2019t it. And you\u2019re married now \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
– Seven News (Tasmania), 3 February 2025<\/p>\n
This year we also marked the passing of a giant of radio:\u00a0<\/p>\n
JAMES FINDLAY:\u00a0And broadcaster Alan Jones has died at the age of 90. The man nicknamed the Golden Tonsils \u2026<\/p>\n
– Nightlife, ABC Radio Sydney, 9 November 2025<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sorry, who was that?<\/p>\n
JAMES FINDLAY: \u2026\u00a0sorry, gosh, can we dump? \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
– Nightlife, ABC Radio Sydney, 9 November 2025<\/p>\n
Afraid not.<\/p>\n
JAMES FINDLAY: \u2026\u00a0Broadcaster Alan. Broadcaster John Laws has died at the age of 90.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
– Nightlife, ABC Radio Sydney, 9 November 2025<\/p>\n
Got there in the end!<\/p>\n
From January on, there were dire and routine warnings that a cuppa was going to cost us big bucks by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n
JISELLE MANNING:\u00a0A single cup of Joe predicted to cost between $8 and $12 by the end of the year \u2026\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
– Nine News, 4 January 2025<\/p>\n
TOM DUFFY: \u2026 up to $12 for one takeaway coffee \u2026<\/p>\n
– Seven News (Sunshine Coast), 6 January 2025<\/p>\n
MICHAEL USHER:\u00a0$12 a cup, you heard that right \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
– Seven News 6pm (Sydney), 22 August 2025<\/p>\n
And where did we land after all?<\/p>\n
Four $4.63 cents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oh, and by the way, if the fish haven\u2019t been biting and the surf\u2019s been crap it might have been because you\u2019ve been tuned into Seven News Sydney, which for two weeks on the trot broadcast exactly the same tide heights and times night after night after night.<\/p>\n
And before we go, a big thank you, to all our fans out there.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CHAS LICCIARDELLO:\u00a0Now Media Watch, ah \u2026\u00a0 I\u2019m not going to lie, the story didn\u2019t wow me.<\/p>\n
– PEP with Chas and Dr Dave, 11 February 2025<\/p>\n
Ben Fordham\u2019s loyal audience was worried he might get a guernsey on the program:<\/p>\n
BEN FORDHAM:\u00a0Roger\u2019s a bit worried, he says \u201cI hope this Tesla segment isn\u2019t brought up by Media Watch. Let\u2019s hope that Linton and his team aren\u2019t listening to this.\u201d Even though we know, 100% they are.\u00a0<\/p>\n
– Ben Fordham Live, 2GB, 10 September\u00a0 2025<\/p>\n
Ben, we are always listening.<\/p>\n
BEN FORDHAM:\u00a0\u2026 not that we pay too much attention to Media Watch anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
– Ben Fordham Live, 2GB, 10 September\u00a0 2025<\/p>\n
A sword through the heart!<\/p>\n
And I should apologise for causing one or two arguments among colleagues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LAUREN TEMUSKOS:\u00a0Do you want to get on Media Watch again? Seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOM LEWIS:\u00a0This last week, he\u2019s been \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
LAUREN TEMUSKOS:\u00a0Are you trying to get fired?<\/p>\n
– Tom, Lingy & Loggy, K Rock 95.5, 10 September 2025<\/p>\n
After he interviewed two Neo-Nazis, the ever-charming Sam Newman quite enjoyed our description of him as a useful idiot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SAM NEWMAN: Suppose you\u2019re an idiot, and suppose you\u2019re Linton Besser of Media Watch \u2026 Linton is a shallow, dopey looking person \u2026<\/p>\n
– \u00a0Instagram, @originalsmartassam, 18 February 2025<\/p>\n
Steady on Sam!<\/p>\n
While the man behind the miracle water that Channel Seven loved so much took to the socials with some very clever comebacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
ANDREW BLOW:\u00a0Hey guys! Ever heard of a show called Media Watch? Me neither.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u2026 easily the best quiff on TV. If you see this, what hair product do you use? DM me. It\u2019s radiant.<\/p>\n
– Kure Oxygen Official, YouTube, 17 April 2025<\/p>\n
And concluding his rant on another body part entirely:<\/p>\n
ANDREW BLOW:\u00a0But for the last word on this. Let\u2019s go back to Linton, with perhaps his most insightful observation to date.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LINTON BESSER: \u2018Cock\u2019<\/p>\n
– Kure Oxygen Official, YouTube, 17 April 2025<\/p>\n
It\u2019s, been a laugh and a great privilege.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thank you so much for watching, and thank you also to the Media Watch team who work so hard behind the scenes.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll be back next year, for more cock and bull stories.<\/p>\n
So make sure to keep sending us your wonderful tips over summer.<\/p>\n
There are of course full statements on our website.<\/p>\n
And you can check us out on ABC iview as well as YouTube, Facebook and X.<\/p>\n
See you in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, as we draw tonight and the year of Media Watch to a close, we wanted to give…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-151362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}