TV job losses as Paramount clears out Ten’s SA commercial team
Network Ten’s Adelaide sales boss has been made redundant alongside the rest of his team as Paramount moves its Adelaide commercial operations to Melbourne. Read more about what’s happening to Adelaide’s journalists.
Paramount will transition its entire Adelaide sales operations to Melbourne, InDaily can reveal, as part of a restructure to “best support our business strategy”.
Eight staff members, including General Manager and Sales Director for Adelaide Cameron Mudge, have been made redundant as a result.
Ten’s Adelaide sales team was notified earlier today in an email sent by Network Ten owner Paramount’s chief sales officer, ANZ Rod Prosser and seen by InDaily.
The Adelaide newsroom is not impacted by these changes, with journalists and camera operators to be kept on to produce local news in South Australia, as per another email sent by Paramount Vice President News Martin White, also seen by InDaily.
“There are no job losses or changes to the news team because of this,” White’s email reads.
“We remain committed to local news in Adelaide, which continues to go from strength to strength.”
Prosser’s email said the decision was made to transition the Adelaide sales operation to Melbourne “as part of our ongoing focus on driving earnings growth and transforming our business”.
“This was not an easy decision, but one that was necessary to best support our business strategy,” the email reads.
“We understand this news is difficult, and we are committed to supporting those affected through this transition.
“We would like to thank those employees who will be leaving for their valuable contribution to Paramount over many years. We wish them all the best.”
Paramount only recently appointed Cameron Mudge as General Manager and Sales Director for Adelaide in 2023.
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He was given the job to drive the team in Adelaide, and at the time of his appointment was labelled “the right person to lead the Adelaide team forward”.
It is the latest big movement in Adelaide broadcast media, with Jeremy Pudney announcing his resignation as Director of News at Nine in an all-staff email yesterday, saying he was moving on to a role at Flinders University.
His was the latest high-profile resignation for Nine Adelaide, following the departure of deputy director Ben Avery, who left the network to join the South Australian Liberals as an advisor.
Executive producer Fiona Clark also recently quit Nine after four years at the station, while the contract of newsreader Kate Collins was not renewed at the end of last year as the network moved to slash 50 television jobs.
