Prime TV in salary freeze as regional networks plead for media reforms

By James Joyce
Updated October 24 2016 - 9:04am, first published October 23 2016 - 6:54pm
Despite the ratings success of shows like My Kitchen Rules, hosted by Manu Feildel and Pete Evans, Prime Media Group suffered a $93.5million loss in the 2016 financial year.
Despite the ratings success of shows like My Kitchen Rules, hosted by Manu Feildel and Pete Evans, Prime Media Group suffered a $93.5million loss in the 2016 financial year.

Prime Media has frozen the salaries and slashed the incentive bonuses of senior executives as the regional broadcaster fronts a Senate inquiry for the third time in as many years to plead for the scrapping of media ownership rules preventing mergers between regional and metropolitan TV networks.

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