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Here’s a bit of NSFW fun.  Red Bull have produced some weird and wonderful TV commercials over the years. Remember the one where a man flies up and let’s a bird have it from above?

Well, not surprisingly some of those ads have drawn a number of complaints which resulted in them being taken off air. Here are a selection which people have referred to as: ‘disgusting’, ‘repulsive’ and ‘should be banned’ ads… 

What are you watching tonight?  The Logies, the new season of Masterchef or something else?

Let this help get you in the mood.

Throng Australia has been enjoying some phenomenal growth this year with record month after record month.  Our year on year growth has been exceptional but this month has just reached a pretty monumental milestone.

Moments ago we served our millionth page for the month!

Thanks goes out to the Throng team for all their hard work and dedication.  

We’re pretty excited about some things that we’re working on to take things to the next level so stay tuned for more details.

How long would it take this guy to get X’d out of the Australia’s Got Talent auditions?

Channel Seven just sent through this trailer.  

Are you looking forward to a new series of Australia’s Got Talent?

Here’s the first promo of the 2015 Cricket World Cup which will be played in Australia and New Zealand – The world’s toughest backyard.

While Ten awaits their knight in shining armour to arrive to take the helm, acticng CEO Lachlan Murdoch is less than impressed with the latest numbers that have just been released.

The company reported a first half profit of $49.6m but this was down 15.6%, a result that Murdoch called “Not Acceptable” and “Disappointing”.

In a statement that clearly let it be known that Murdoch was unimpressed, he said

The half year results are not acceptable and immediate action is already underway to address them. Disappointingly for Ten’s 1300 employees and 22,500 share- holders, these results do not demonstrate Ten’s underlying strengths and potential.

Free-to-air television is an excellent business with strong growth prospects. However, Ten has been under-delivering and this must change.

The third day of proceedings in the Seven vs Warburton case has seen allegations being made that Warburton printed off the contact details of clients, agencies and staff the day prior to his resigning from the network.

Also of concern is knowledge of a new piece of technology that allows products to be superimposed into a program during post-production, a tool that Seven believes would be highly valuable to their competitiors.

Seven are attempting to enforce a gardening leave period that would see Warburton unable to start as CEO of Network Ten until October of next year. Warburton is scheduled to start working at Ten in July.

In the unfolding saga between Seven and their former chief sales and digital officer and newly appointed CEO of Ten, James Warburton, the court has been told that the Seven Media Group would suffer “unquantifiable loss” due to the “valuable inside knowledge” Warburton has.

In an affidavit presented in court, Seven’s commercial director Bruce Williams made it quite clear, the concerns they have over commercially sensitive information Warburton was aware of.

“I am very concerned, given the breadth and depth of Mr Warburton’s knowledge of SMG’s operations, strategy, client relationships and financial data, that if he were to commence employment with a competitor such as Ten prior to 14 October 2012, it would be impossible for him to divorce his mind from that body of information.

“At the same time, SMG would likely suffer unquantifiable loss, as sales revenue would be put at risk by the valuable inside knowledge at Mr Warburton’s disposal, giving him an advantage in his negotiations on behalf of a competitor of SMG.”

Warburton is due to start in his new role as CEO of Network Ten on the 14th of July but Seven is attempting to block the move, claiming his previous contract prevents him from starting work elsewhere until October 2012.