Avior Wealth Management LLC grew its position in shares of Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. ( NASDAQ:ITCI – Free Report ) by 3.0% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 4,473 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock after purchasing an additional 131 shares during the period. Avior Wealth Management LLC’s holdings in Intra-Cellular Therapies were worth $327,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also modified their holdings of the company. Summit Securities Group LLC purchased a new stake in Intra-Cellular Therapies in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $56,000. Capital Performance Advisors LLP acquired a new position in Intra-Cellular Therapies in the third quarter valued at $74,000. CWM LLC boosted its stake in Intra-Cellular Therapies by 83.9% in the 2nd quarter. CWM LLC now owns 1,372 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $94,000 after buying an additional 626 shares during the last quarter. Covestor Ltd raised its stake in Intra-Cellular Therapies by 40.4% during the third quarter. Covestor Ltd now owns 1,811 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock worth $133,000 after purchasing an additional 521 shares during the period. Finally, Assetmark Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Intra-Cellular Therapies by 9.1% in the 3rd quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 2,477 shares of the biopharmaceutical company’s stock valued at $181,000 after purchasing an additional 207 shares during the last quarter. 92.33% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors. Insider Transactions at Intra-Cellular Therapies In other news, CEO Sharon Mates sold 34,396 shares of Intra-Cellular Therapies stock in a transaction on Friday, August 30th. The stock was sold at an average price of $72.84, for a total transaction of $2,505,404.64. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 1,070,329 shares in the company, valued at approximately $77,962,764.36. This trade represents a 3.11 % decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link . Also, President Michael Halstead sold 22,869 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, November 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $89.12, for a total transaction of $2,038,085.28. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Over the last three months, insiders sold 97,778 shares of company stock worth $7,524,436. Company insiders own 2.60% of the company’s stock. Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades Read Our Latest Report on ITCI Intra-Cellular Therapies Trading Up 0.3 % Shares of Intra-Cellular Therapies stock opened at $85.69 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $9.08 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -98.49 and a beta of 0.97. Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. has a twelve month low of $58.14 and a twelve month high of $93.45. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $79.05 and its 200-day simple moving average is $74.66. Intra-Cellular Therapies ( NASDAQ:ITCI – Get Free Report ) last issued its earnings results on Wednesday, October 30th. The biopharmaceutical company reported ($0.25) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.18) by ($0.07). Intra-Cellular Therapies had a negative return on equity of 9.93% and a negative net margin of 14.07%. The company had revenue of $175.40 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $172.30 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned ($0.25) earnings per share. Intra-Cellular Therapies’s quarterly revenue was up 39.0% on a year-over-year basis. Sell-side analysts predict that Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. will post -0.64 earnings per share for the current year. Intra-Cellular Therapies Company Profile ( Free Report ) Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, clinical development, and commercialization of small molecule drugs that address medical needs primarily in neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders by targeting intracellular signaling mechanisms in the central nervous system (CNS) in the United States. See Also Want to see what other hedge funds are holding ITCI? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc. ( NASDAQ:ITCI – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Intra-Cellular Therapies Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Intra-Cellular Therapies and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey gambling regulators have handed out $40,000 in fines to two sportsbooks and a tech company for violations that included taking bets on unauthorized events, and on games that had already ended. In information made public Monday, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement fined DraftKings $20,000. It also levied $10,000 fines on Rush Street Interactive NJ and the sports betting technology company Kambi. According to documents released by the state, Rush Street accepted 16 bets worth $1,523 in Nov. 2021 on a college basketball game between the University of North Carolina-Asheville and Tennessee Tech University after the game had already concluded with a UNC victory. Kambi told the enforcement division that a trader had failed to manually remove that game from its betting markets, saying it had stopped receiving messages from its own sports data provider due to a network connectivity error. Kambi said it has updated its guidelines and retrained its traders to prevent a recurrence. Kambi, which is based in Malta, did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment Monday. Rush Street declined comment, and DraftKings had no immediate comment Monday. DraftKings stopped using Kambi in 2021. In March 2022 Rush Street took seven bets totaling just under $2,900 on three Magic City Jai Alai games after the results were already known. Kambi told the division it experienced a connectivity issue that allowed the bets to be accepted after the games were over. An explanation of what Kambi did to address the situation was blacked out in documents released by the division. A month earlier Rush Street took 13 wagers worth $8,150 with pre-match odds on a Professional Golf Association match after the event had already begun. In this case, Kambi told the division a newly hired trader failed to enter the correct closing time time for bets on the event. The trader and a supervisor underwent retraining. DraftKings was fined for taking bets on unapproved events including Russian basketball for nine months in 2020 and 2021. It eventually voided over $61,000 in bets and returned the money to customers after being directed to do so by the state. In this case, Kambi told the division it misidentified this particular Russian basketball league as one that was approved for wagering in New Jersey. DraftKings told the state it did not catch the error, either. In 2020, DraftKings accepted 484 wagers on unapproved table tennis matches. Kambi incorrectly enabled the events for wagering without conditions required by the state, the division said. In Feb. 2022, the division said DraftKings took pre-season NFL bets involving specific players but did not give the state specific information on what information was to be included in the bets, drawing 182 wagers worth nearly $7,000 that were later voided and refunded to customers. Follow Wayne Parry on X at www.twitter.com/WayneParryAC
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BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP)—In the wee hours Sunday at the United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can contribute funds to support poor countries in the face of climate change. It's a far-from-perfect arrangement, with many parties still deeply unsatisfied but some hopeful that the deal will be a step in the right direction. World Resources Institute president and CEO Ani Dasgupta called it “an important down payment toward a safer, more equitable future,” but he added that the poorest and most vulnerable nations are “rightfully disappointed that wealthier countries didn’t put more money on the table when billions of people’s lives are at stake.” The summit was supposed to end on Friday evening, but negotiations spiraled through early Sunday. With countries on opposite ends of a massive chasm, tensions ran high as delegations tried to close the gap in expectations. Here's how they got there: What was the finance deal agreed at climate talks? Rich countries have agreed to pool together at least $300 billion a year by 2035. It’s not near the full amount of $1.3 trillion that developing countries were asking for, and that experts said was needed. But delegations more optimistic about the agreement said this deal is headed in the right direction, with hopes that more money will flow their way in the future. The text included a call for all parties to work together using “all public and private sources” to get closer to the $1.3 trillion per year goal by 2035. That means also pushing for international mega-banks, funded by taxpayer dollars, to help foot the bill. And it means, hopefully, that companies and private investors will follow suit on channeling cash toward climate action. The agreement is also a critical step toward helping countries on the receiving end create more ambitious targets to limit or cut emissions of heat-trapping gases that are due early next year. It’s part of the plan to keep cutting pollution with new targets every five years, which the world agreed to at the U.N. talks in Paris in 2015. The Paris agreement set the system of regularly ratcheting up climate-fighting ambition as a way to keep warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. The world is already at 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.3 degrees Fahrenheit) and carbon emissions keep rising. What will the money be spent on? The deal decided in Baku replaces a previous agreement from 15 years ago that charged rich nations $100 billion a year to help the developing world with climate finance. The new number has similar aims: it will go toward the developing world's long laundry list of to-dos to prepare for a warming world and keep it from getting hotter. That includes paying for the transition to clean energy and away from fossil fuels. Countries need funds to build up the infrastructure needed to deploy technologies like wind and solar power on a large scale. Communities hard-hit by extreme weather also want money to adapt and prepare for events like floods, typhoons and fires. Funds could go toward improving farming practices to make them more resilient to weather extremes, building houses differently with storms in mind, helping people move from the hardest-hit areas, and helping leaders improve emergency plans in the wake of disasters. The Philippines, for example, has been hammered by six major storms in less than a month, bringing howling winds, massive storm surges, and catastrophic damage to millions of homes, not to mention the nation's infrastructure and farmland. “Family farmers need to be financed," said Esther Penunia of the Asian Farmers Association. She described how many have already had to deal with millions of dollars of storm damage, including trees that won't again bear fruit for months or years or animals that died in extreme weather events, wiping out a main source of income. “If you think of a rice farmer who depends on his or her one-hectare farm, rice land, ducks, chickens, vegetables, and it was inundated, there was nothing to harvest,” she said. Why was it so hard to get a deal? Global election results heralding a change in climate leadership, key players inclined to stall climate talks, and a disorganized host country all led to a final crunch that left few happy with a flawed compromise. The ending of COP29 is "reflective of the harder geopolitical terrain the world finds itself in,” said Li Shuo of the Asia Society. He cited U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's recent victory — with his promises to pull the country out of the Paris Agreement — as one reason why the relationship between China and the E.U. will be more consequential for global climate politics moving forward. Developing nations also faced some difficulties agreeing in the final hours, with one Latin American delegation member saying that their group didn't feel properly consulted when small island states had last-minute meetings to try to reach a deal. Negotiators from the developing world took different tacks on the deal until they finally agreed to compromise. Meanwhile, activists ramped up the pressure. Many urged negotiators to stay strong and said that no deal would be better than a bad deal. Ultimately the desire for a deal won out. Some also pointed to the host country as a reason for the struggle. Mohamed Adow, director of climate and energy think tank Power Shift Africa, said Friday that “this COP presidency is one of the worst in recent memory,” calling it “one of the most poorly led and chaotic COP meetings ever.” The presidency said in a statement, “Every hour of the day, we have pulled people together. Every inch of the way, we have pushed for the highest common denominator. We have faced geopolitical headwinds and made every effort to be an honest broker for all sides.” Mr. Shuo retains hope that the opportunities offered by a green economy “make inaction self-defeating” for countries around the world, regardless of their stance on the decision. But it remains to be seen whether the UN talks can deliver more ambition next year. In the meantime, “this COP process needs to recover from Baku,” Mr. Shuo said. This story is from The Associated Press and was written by Melinda Walling, with reporting from Seth Borenstein and Sibi Arasu in Baku, Azerbaijan.Cam Carter put LSU ahead for good with a jumper 1:08 into the third overtime and the Tigers came away with a wild 109-102 win over UCF on Sunday in the third-place game of the Greenbrier Tip-Off in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Carter's make sparked a 5-0 spurt for LSU (5-1), which mounted a ferocious second-half rally that began after Darius Johnson drilled a 3-pointer to put the Knights up 52-34 with 12:57 to play in regulation. UCF (4-2) got back within two in the third overtime, but it never found a way to draw even. Vyctorius Miller and Jordan Sears sealed the victory, combining for three buckets down low that gave the Tigers a 106-99 cushion with 17 seconds remaining. Carter was the late-game hero for LSU, scoring the final four points of regulation to forge a 70-70 tie. He also knocked down a go-ahead 3-pointer with 3:19 left in the first extra session to give the Tigers a 76-75 advantage. Sears gave LSU a four-point edge with a triple of his own with 2:10 to go, but the Tigers failed to stay in front, and UCF's Keyshawn Hall kept the game going by sinking two free throws with six seconds remaining to make it 82-82. Neither team led by more than three in the second overtime, with Hall again coming to the Knights' rescue. He made two layups in the final 52 seconds of the frame to knot things at 93 and send the teams to a third OT. Few could have predicted 15 minutes of extra basketball after UCF put together a 25-3 first-half run that lifted it to a 38-18 advantage with 2:12 left until the break. LSU responded with seven unanswered points, but the Knights still led comfortably, 40-25, at intermission. Sears finished with a game-high-tying 25 points to go along with nine boards, while Jalen Reed recorded a 21-point, 13-rebound double-double for the Tigers. Carter netted 20 points, Miller had 16 and Dji Bailey chipped in 14. Johnson collected 25 points, six rebounds, eight assists and five steals for UCF. Hall totaled 21 points and 10 boards, and Jordan Ivy-Curry supplied 20 points. LSU outshot UCF 43.2 percent to 40.7 percent and had narrow advantages from behind the arc (12 made shots to 10) and the free-throw line (21-18). --Field Level Media
Leading marketing executive Lisa Ronson has been remembered as “the light in every life she touched” after her tragic death in a farm accident near Daylesford on Saturday night, reports News Corp’s Rebecca Borg . The high-profile businesswoman lost control of an all-terrain vehicle at her beloved property on Daylesford-Clunes Rd in Ullina about 7pm. Ronson’s family told the Herald Sun the 52-year-old had been stolen “from us far too soon”. Her husband Chris Taylor paid tribute to “the love of my life, my inspiration and greatest supporter”. “I am lost without her,” he said. Taylor said his wife – who was the chief marketing officer at Medibank – was the “light in every life she touched”. Ronson joined Medibank after leaving her role as chief executive of marketing at Coles in May 2023, following a successful four-year stint where she won numerous awards including Australia’s most prolific marketer and the Best of the Best Marketer of the Year in 2021. [Read more] Prominent anti-gambling advocate Tim Costello has slammed the government’s failure to enact a long-mooted ban on wagering advertising, saying it had caved in to vested interests and broken a commitment to get it passed before Christmas, reports The AFR’s Max Mason . Communications Minister Michelle Rowland is facing growing frustration, including from within her own party, over the delay in introducing legislation to restrict gambling advertising 18 months after an inquiry led by the late Labor MP Peta Murphy recommended a total ban. The Albanese government may still restrict gambling advertising but does not plan to introduce legislation this week, according to Rowland’s office. Monday kicks off the last parliamentary sitting week of the year, which may also be the last before an election if an early vote is called. [Read more] Southern Cross Media will hold its AGM on Monday, and we imagine that chairman Heith Mackay-Cruise will face an uncomfortable grilling over, well, just about everything going wrong with the management of the business, report The Australian’s Yoni Bashan and Nick Evans . We hear he’ll just scrape over the line during a re-election ballot, but Adore Beauty chair Marina Go , appointed to the board last month, and notably without any broadcast experience, is unlikely to survive. She is quite certain to be dumped, and there’s certainly a view that Mackay-Cruise should be following her out. Just take a look at the joint. The SCA board has received five transaction proposals over the past 12 months and shrugged off each of them as the share price kept tumbling – from highs of $1.05 in November last year to Friday’s pitiful close of 54.5c. [Read more] See also: Southern Cross hit with first strike, with chairman under pressure The Albanese government is facing growing backlash for attempting to ram through its ban on social media for people under 16 before the end of the week without proper consultation, reports The AFR’s Max Mason . The government’s proposed ban allowed the industry just a day to make fresh submissions on a bill introduced to parliament last Thursday. The Senate will hold a three-hour public inquiry on Monday before reporting on Tuesday. The legislation is expected to pass this week with the support of the Coalition, who announced a similar policy in June. [Read more] Back when he lived in Newtown, Alan Jones had a wall covered in photographs of himself with the Pick and Stick crew. There were football players, political allies, celebrities and billionaires; the “Moses of the airwaves” had cultivated a powerful fellowship over his first 20-odd years on air, and still had half his radio career to run. Yet even then, some in his orbit had misgivings about getting too close to Jones. “The last place you wanted to end up was on his wall,” said one, reports Nine Publishing’s Jordan Baker . Being close to Jones was, as one former staffer put it, “an exhausting thing”. It was like being smiled upon by a capricious emperor. The anointed ones, who ranged from sports stars to musicians to prime ministers and premiers, were graced with favours and largesse. But they had to pay homage or risk it all. Jones’ warning that a failure to respond to a request would “be the end of our friendship”, was ominous indeed. For decades, power protected Jones. He bullied his staff, bulldozed elected officials, and was perceived to favour handsome young men. Few were game to challenge him. Those who did paid the price. Jones was a man “drunk on power”, said one former staffer, and “did not know when to stop”. But his grip loosened as society changed and Jones refused to change with it, as advertisers became reluctant to align themselves with his increasingly fringe views, and as movements such as #MeToo put the anatomy of power under the microscope. [Read more] Prominent broadcaster and podcaster Josh Szeps has defended radio star Alan Jones despite revealing that the 83-year-old made repeated physical advances towards him as a young producer on his radio show, including trying to kiss him and touch his genitals, reports Nine Publishing’s Riley Walter . In an episode of his Uncomfortable Conversations podcast, Szeps told listeners that Jones – who on Monday was arrested and charged with 26 offences against nine alleged victims after a top-secret police investigation – tried to “put his hand on my dick”, kiss him and rub his chest on several occasions while he worked as a junior producer on his radio show. “It was clear that he had a crush on me, and he hit on me many times, and in that context, hitting on me meant making a physical move, not a verbal one. He tried to put his hand on my dick, he tried to kiss me, he tried to rub my chest, and I would just slap him off, and we would laugh, and we’d move on,” Szeps said. [Read more] Some of those best placed to uphold the presumption of innocence are the same ones who ignored it, after Alan Jones was arrested and charged with more than two dozen alleged offences against nine men over two decades. His youngest alleged victim was 17, writes The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen. The presumption of innocence was undermined when NSW Assistant Police Commissioner Michael Fitzgerald fronted the media and described the complainants as victims. He commended the “victims” for their “bravery in coming forward”. “The victims have our full support. This is what they have been asking for,” he said. “These are serious charges.” Equally serious is the presumption of innocence. There is no “victim”. Not yet. There is a complainant. I would launch this strident defence of the presumption of innocence even if Jones were my foe. That Jones is a friend of mine is neither here nor there. A good portion of the media take the presumption of innocence seriously. But when, in the first press conference after Jones’s arrest, a senior policeman calls a complainant a “victim”, the media will report that. When police tip off the media about the arrest of a man with as high a profile as Jones, the media will film that. Still, there are plenty in the media also laying down impressions that here’s a man who has rightly met his comeuppance. [Read more] The Australian has recorded the highest audience growth of any major metropolitan print title over the past year, with its average weekday readership surging by more than 10 per cent, according to figures released by research company Roy Morgan on Monday, reports The Australian’s James Madden . The national masthead attracted 38,000 extra readers over the past 12 months, more than any newspaper in the country. The Weekend Australian also remains the most-read Saturday masthead in the nation, lifting its audience by 1.1 per cent year on year and boasting more than 3.6 times more readers than the Nine-owned business tabloid The Australian Financial Review on weekends. Across print and digital, The Australian is read by more than four million consumers each month, with its cross-platform audience 16 per cent higher than that of the AFR , its main commercial rival. Of News Corp’s state-based titles, the Herald Sun’s weekday edition drew an additional 19,000 readers (up 3.3 per cent year on year), the Courier-Mail’s cross-platform metro audience (print and digital) jumped by 12.1 per cent over the past 12 months, The Advertiser climbed by 4.7 per cent and Sydney’s Daily Telegraph increased by 2.5 per cent. The weekday edition of the Herald Sun remains the most-read Monday-to-Friday masthead in Australia, while Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph is the highest-selling title on weekends, with an average weekly readership of 804,000. [Read more] The Sydney Morning Herald continues to hold its long-running title as Australia’s most-read masthead, attracting a cross-platform readership of more than 7 million, fresh Roy Morgan figures have revealed, reports Nine Publishing. The numbers were driven by the Walkley Award-winning investigative series Building Bad, the masthead’s Olympics and Paralympics coverage and news of two assassination attempts on Donald Trump, which have also pushed subscriber figures higher. At 7.05 million readers in the 12 months to September, this means about one in three Australians choose to read the Herald , putting it ahead of competitor The Daily Telegraph , which had 4 million. The Herald’s Monday to Friday print edition notched average reader numbers of 386,000, while the Saturday paper recorded 472,000 readers. Victoria’s The Age has a national readership of 4.55 million, ahead of competitor the Herald Sun by 450,000. [Read more] Tensions are reportedly high at Brisbane’s 4BC as breakfast host Peter Fegan has an issue with the station’s decision to enlist Shane Doherty as a summer fill-in presenter, reports News Corp’s Georgia Clelland . Doherty, a former senior media adviser to the Palaszczuk government, will temporarily replace drive host Gary Hardgrave while both he and Fegan are on leave. Sources close to the station reveal Fegan and Doherty share a frosty history. Both Fegan and Hardgrave have been vocal critics of Palaszczuk. The move to bring Doherty on board is understood to have been driven by execs in Sydney, bypassing local reservations. Meanwhile, future of Brisbane breakfast radio is under scrutiny, with speculation swirling that Sydney’s Kyle and Jackie O Show could replace Robin and Kip on KIIS97.3 in 2025. Despite strong denials from the Australian Radio Network (ARN), industry insiders remain unconvinced, citing recent structural changes at the station as potential indicators. The redundancy of Robin and Kip’s executive producer, Ruth De Glas , this week has fuelled rumours of an impending shake-up. [Read more] Jase Hawkins , Lauren Phillips and Clint Stanaway of Nova Melbourne’s breakfast show marked an unusual anniversary on Friday, with November 22 being the date last year that they were told they were being axed from the breakfast shift at KIIS FM to make way for Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson , reports News Corp’s Fiona Byrne . Twelve months on, the number 1 FM breakfast show in Melbourne is the Nova trio while Sandilands and his posse are dwelling in seventh position in the overall breakfast market. “We just want to thank everyone for listening to our show. It was one year ago today that we were told no one wanted to listen to us on the radio,” Phillips said on their show on Friday. “We got shafted a year ago to the day,” Hawkins added. [Read more] Brigitte Duclos is radio’s comeback queen, reports News Corp’s Fiona Byrne . After a stellar career as part of some of Melbourne radio’s most iconic on air teams in 90s and mid noughties, Duclos thought her radio days were over when the axe fell on her role as host of Gold FM’s breakfast show in late 2015. But after forging a new career as a counsellor, Duclos is returning to the airwaves in 2025 as the host of ABC Melbourne’s afternoon show. Duclos started her media career in the sports department at Channel 10 in 1986 before moving into general news. In 1992 she also started reading news on Richard Stubbs’ Triple M breakfast show. “Eventually I gave up the TV because I thought this radio is so much better for me,” Duclos said. After four years on Stubbs’ show she joined Triple M’s The Grill Team with Eddie McGuire and Dermott Brereton . Next came The Cage on Triple M with Peter Berner, James Brayshaw, Matt Parkinson and Mike Fitzpatrick before Duclos moved to MIX FM (now KIIS) in 2008 to host breakfast with Tom Gleeson and George McEnroe . [Read more] Matt Doran , the co-host of Seven’s Weekend Sunrise , is quitting the network, reports The Australian’s James Madden . The 41-year-old made the announcement during Sunday’s show, telling viewers that after five years on the program, he would be finishing up at the end of the year. “It’s something I’ve agonised over because it’s honest to say this is one of the best jobs on earth, but we think it’s right – and at the right time – for our little family,” Doran told viewers. Three years ago, Doran made headlines across the globe when he delivered an on-air apology to British singer Adele after he flew to the UK to interview her about her new album without having listened to it – a mistake that left him Rolling In The Deep shit with his bosses at Seven. [Read more] Samantha Armytage is set to “Wake up with Today ” next month, when she sits in the hot seat as host of the program, reports News Corp’s Briana Domjen . Sunday Confidential can reveal Nine bosses have asked Armytage to “fill in” for a week and a half over the summer period, while regular hosts Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo are on leave. She will be co-hosting the show with Weekend Today host Clint Stanaway . Armytage wouldn’t return Confidential’s calls on Saturday, and a Nine spokesperson said the network would confirm its summer program soon. It is believed Nine has made the move in a bid to get the Nine audience acquainted with Armytage, who worked with rival network Seven for 21 years but recently jumped ship to host their new reality dating program. Whether it is a “trial” for a more permanent position is yet to be seen. [Read more] The Seven Network may be about to dip their toe back in the rugby league waters, report News Corp’s Brent Read and Michael Carayannis . The network has held internal talks over starting their own rugby league show next year in a potential pointer to entering the fight for the game’s broadcast rights in coming months. Seven were last involved with rugby league seven years ago when they won the rights to televise the 2017 World Cup. However, they have hitched their wagon to AFL in recent years and Nine has been the commercial broadcaster of choice for rugby league. [Read more] Josh Hazlewood has been sold for nearly $2.3m while Jake Fraser-McGurk’s price has gone through the roof, reports cricket.com.au’s Max Hatzoglou . A total of 37 Australians will go under the hammer across two days of the Indian Premier League Auction beginning on Sunday night. Mitchell Starc was one of the first few players to sell with the left-arm quick going to the Delhi Capitals for 11.75 crore ($2.14 million), less than half of the 24.75 crore he went for last year to break the record for the most expensive player in IPL history. Marcus Stoinis was sold to Ricky Ponting’s Punjab Kings for 11 crore ($2 million) while rising star Jake Fraser-McGurk was sold to the Capitals for 9 crore ($1.64 million) after the franchise which he starred for last year matched the bid of the Kings. Glenn Maxwell was sold to the Kings for 4.2 crore ($765,000) and Mitchell Marsh was picked up by the Lucknow Super Giants for 3.4 crore (620,000). Josh Hazlewood was the last of the first five Aussies to be sold at the auction with the fast bowler heading to the Royal Challengers Bengaluru for 12.5 crore ($2.29 million), the highest price of an Aussie at the auction so far. David Warner went unsold in the auction. [Read more]
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