ARIA Awards going homeless
First VIdeo Hits and now TEN has passed on broadcasting the 2011 ARIA Awards.
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TEN has passed on broadcasting the 2011 ARIA Awards, the 25th ceremony for the music industry.
To be held in November at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, the annual event is now without a broadcaster.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Seven or Channel V would be potential saviours if they were interested -indeed it could tie in well with The X Factor.
After last year’s embarrassing broadcast it’s debatable whether anybody wants to touch the event. It takes a lot of planning and production just for one night, and at this time of the year, most of the top production people are already tied up on other projects.
TEN returned to the event in 2010 after it had a fleeting year with Nine.
A network spokesperson said, “The ratings last year were less than ideal and moving forward we couldn’t find a business model that would make it work, but we wish them every success.”
Rumours of Elton John hosting the big night have also been virtually ruled out.
TEN also quits Video Hits today after 24 years on air, due to cost cutting by interim CEO Lachlan Murdoch.
It is believed at least one label has demanded the return all music videos featuring their artists from the Video Hits library in protest at the decision.
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I mean 7 should do it coz they are no1 at the moment and music shows are big on 7 now with talent and x factor.
Nine did well to get Robbie Williams but not in having a music show hosted by actors from Underbelly and Cops LAC.
Nine did well with it. Give it to them.
Precisely, Jerome.
The Rockwiz/Renegade team should do it and give it a bit of integrity again – like the Hall of Fame. Maybe SBS or the ABC should do it?
Perhaps a good fit for a multi-channel? Something like GO! – even go with the hosts of Uplate? Not sure any ARIAs that I’ve watched can top with the supergroups did Evie Parts 1,2 & 3 – more of that will get people watching…
The problem isn’t just the quality of Australian music or the production by Ten, it’s the format of music awards shows in general.
Prior to the advent of Lady GaGa, return of Britney and birth of Justin Bieber The VMA’s, EVMA’s and Grammy’s were all in a tail spin.
Short of a real show stopper, crowd pleaser there shouldn’t be expectation for these shows to be entertaining or successful. In nature they’re long and Australia’s industry is so niche driven it can’t draw a wider audience.
Peer voted awards are a thing of the past, people only care for peoples choice awards.
The arias have always seemed too commercial-phobic and need a total rethink. Presenters that people know, acts of people that are known of, and awards for acts that have a broader interest level. Anything niche or indie based will never work on commercial tv. The people that watch them are the teenage girls that vote on Idol and X factor and read trashy mags. They don’t want to see A deckchair, guitar, beer type guys win award after award while the Jessica Mauboys get ignored.
Ah, it was more fun when it was held at the Regent Hotel in Sydney. Those first two inaugural ARIAs were some of the best fun I’ve ever had … sadly it’s become the province of ageing TV producers trying to tap into what’s hip and cool for the youngsters, and been an abject failure. It’d be very depressing, though, if it was to go the way of Pay TV only – at its best it really should reflect the vibrancy and dynamism of the Australian music scene so please FTA, do something!
Surely the ABC has some spare money to spend on Australian Art (ists). Triple J to cross promote and stream. Must be expensive for 10 or it would have gone to 11 at least!
Oh well no loss
I always used to record the event and then watch it back the next day after finding out what the highlights were from other talk shows ect and then would just fast forward to them. The other shame is that the local music industry always increases it’s numbers post Arias so… now they won’t i guess
It all went horribly wrong didn’t it? I think the producers tried too hard to be “hip” and forgot about everything else. The broadcasts became more chaotic and disjointed every year and it was hard to watch. I also had a problem with some of the artists who accepted their awards in a very ungracious way and looked like it was an imposition that they had to attend. How hard is it to wave to the audience, smile and say thank you? This might be a good thing. A wake up call to producers.
All you would need to do is get a stage, a podium and some awesome artists to belt out a tune. No overseas celeb, no cross promotion, no bull$hit
Ten murdered the Arias last year. The worst televised awards ceremony I have ever seen.
I hope Channel Seven picks it up and air the 2011 ARIA’s. It’s the Australian Music Industries Pinnacle Award.
Elton John hosted before they started televising it and said if they wanted it to stay fun they should keep it off TV. They must be wishing they had taken his advice.
The ARIAS used to be enjoyable, but has gone downhill in recent years.
David, how it says TEN returned to the event in 2011, shouldn’t that be 2010?
In regards to the Video Hits finale, I am watching it wondering where the previous presenters are?
@RichW – and Shelly Craft could present the Album of the Year award! Eddie McGuire could do something as well, maybe jokes and backstage banter before and after each ad break!
I love the sound of this! Come on Channel 9!
Channel Nine could do it, but in a bogan format and hosted by Scott Cam or the great Richard Wilkins.
The main drama is the qulaity of Australian music. It’s bland, Triple J, rock/indie melodies that 85% of the country couldn’t care less about. The Big Jet Plane winners last year made me feel stoned when I watched them. Add to that the horror of the worst presenting and the end is night for the ARIA Awards.
It is now a Channel V event, like the Helpmann Awards on STVDIO. Farewell ARIA’s on free to air.
Don’t blame them, did you see last year’s ARIA Awards? lol And Seven should not have it, cos they’d just fill it with X-Factors contestants.
Watching the final Video Hits right now. Some great clips, yet they keep going back to the host for 10 mins of talking. Just show the video clips, that’s why people watch, and that’s why i stopped watching.
The record label should write to Lachlan Murdoch to protest at the axing of Video Hits, instead of demanding that Ten should return all music videos featuring their artists.
Lets hope rage stays on-air, hopefully getting its own multi-channel either on the telly and or as a web stream IPTV service.
I had a feeling it would be dropped by Ten after the embarrassment of last year’s offereing. There really was no excuse for that broadcast, it was just shocking. Let it go to some marginal cable channel.
It may be too expensive, it’s a shame it can’t get an audience because it really is a showcase of Aussie sounds, I guess if people get bored at the ceremony there imagine how it is at home…
It’s just a very sad reflection of where the Australian Television Industry is at the moment.
I’d gladly take all those videos, though it used to annoy me VH only ever showed 3/4 of the video.
Oh for RAGE Top 50 from the 80’s…