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ABC axes Media Bites
"Bites won’t be back next year, which is sad, because making them was a lot of fun," says Paul Barry.
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EXCLUSIVE:
ABC’s Media Bites is not returning in 2025.
Paul Barry will confirm the end of the social media offshoot tonight in his final Media Watch hosting.
There have been 413 Media Bites editions, released to Facebook, X, iview and YouTube since 2017, as a way for the programme to engage with younger audiences and tackle additional issues. Barry sits in the Media Watch office and serves up items with a more cheeky tone than the serious Monday broadcast.
But it won’t return with new host Linton Besser in 2025, it has been decided.
This Thursday’s Media Bites, the last of them all, will be a “Best of.”
“Bites won’t be back next year, which is sad, because making them was a lot of fun,” says Barry.
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2 Responses
MB was essentially a Paul Barry production. I never saw it on the ABC and it was dropped from iView a year or so ago. It’s light-hearted approach to news doesn’t fit with the ABC’s “serious” image. Don’t make waves, don’t rock the boat and definitely don’t bite the hand that feeds you.
What??
Media Bites consistently does stories which fit in perfectly with Media Watch –
The ones they wouldn’t have time for on Monday nights.
Just because he’s sitting at a workdesk and overacts a little during the presentation does not turn it into Micallef.
Also the reason you never saw it on ABC was that it was never designed to be there in the first place.
It has been easily accessible at the Media Watch website (where you don’t need to sign in).
As for the show and “definitely don’t bite the hand that feeds you” –
Maybe you should have watched last night, and be reminded of some of the times the show did bite the ABC.