A pub in South Yarra played host to a couple of celebrations on Thursday evening.
In 2022, Paramount, the US-owner of Network 10, cancelled its own amid financial stress.In 2023, again, there was no formal party. Even Lachlan Murdoch read the room and cancelled his last year, which made aBut with Paramount’s new cashed-up tech scion-cum-media mogul owner in waiting David Ellison ready to take control, the Network Ten Christmas party was back on the menu.
Network 10’s news team celebrates the return of its Christmas party, per presenter Candice Wyatt’s Instagram.Its Melbourne Christmas do was held at South Yarra rooftop pub The Osborne on Thursday, and by all reports, was a fairly subdued re-entry into the category. That was at least compared to the other media company hosting an event in the same venue.
Journalist turned media and sports mogul Craig Hutchison’s Sports Entertainment Network had 150 of its staff to The Osborne to celebrate not only the festive period, but a major milestone for the new Seven Network star, his 50th birthday, which was on Wednesday. This time last year, Sports Entertainment Group was in financial strife, with a hefty loan owed to its bankers at CBA. Hutchie and co have since had a firesale, shipping the Perth Wildcats off for $40 million and clearing its debts in the process.SEN’s event the far rowdier of the two, a Paramount partygoer told. Maybe next year the network will host to a more lavish event, with its star-in-absentia Lisa Wilkinson’s reported $1.7 million contract off its books at the end of the month.
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