{"id":308878,"date":"2026-03-02T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308878\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:00:09","slug":"network-ten-set-to-join-ellisons-mega-maga-production-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/308878\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Ten set to join Ellison’s mega-MAGA production company"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happens when little Ten becomes the Australian arm of mega-MAGA media?<\/p>\n

With the news late last week of the all-but-certain Paramount Skydance takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, Australia\u2019s Ten Network has\u00a0been catapulted from the perennial struggling also-ran of Australian television into the local distribution arm of what\u2019s set to be the largest (and most politically aligned) production company in the world.<\/p>\n

Expect significant changes to how we get informed and entertained \u2014 most of them bad.<\/p>\n

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In the US (and, by default, in much of Australia\u2019s US-centred media) the takeover is being analysed through the lens of the oligarchic maneuverings in the court of the mad king, with the Trump-friendly Ellison family<\/a> attempting to build a cross-platform MAGA mass media out of a mix of 20th century platforms (television, film) and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happens when little Ten becomes the Australian arm of mega-MAGA media? With the news late last week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[65,156,2592,15006,61815,1073,1094,168530,111,139,69,421,12854,437,5942],"class_list":{"0":"post-308878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hbo","11":"tag-larry-ellison","12":"tag-maga","13":"tag-media","14":"tag-netflix","15":"tag-network-ten","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-paramount","20":"tag-rupert-murdoch","21":"tag-tv","22":"tag-warner-bros"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308878","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=308878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}