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Welcome to the Mumbrellacast.

Today, the witches point their brooms at Dave Hughes.

M&C Saatchi's local management takeover collapses.

Mumbrella Breaking News.

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Now, the big story for this morning is the announcement of Kerry Stokes' son, Ryan, as the new chair of Southern Cross Media, nine months after the business merged with Seven.

And to break it all down, a man who loves a breaking news story, Mr Tim Burrows from Mumbrella.

Tim, this is beginning to feel like an episode of Succession, just without the yacht, perhaps.

It's so funny you should say that.

today? That's a good question.

John Kelly, former CEO of Southern Cross Austereo before the merger, then stepped up and was acting CEO for a while after Geoff Howard left the business quite suddenly, who had previously been... leading Seven West Media, and it had looked like he would lead the new business, but he was ousted very quickly, so John Kelly then acted up for a while, and then more recently we saw Rowan Lund come in as the overall boss, with JK then stepping down to lead the audio side.

More about advertising reports, Essity has launched a global creative review after acquiring Edgewell's North American personal care brands, putting the Labresse and Bodyform account in play.

Mumbrella reports Saatchi & Saatchi has won creative duties for Australian Retirement Trust after a pitch that three-year incumbent M&C Saatchi declined to contest.

Storyboard18 reports India's income tax department began searches on the 1st of September at premises linked to Dentsu Media Group in four cities, part of a suspected tax evasion probe.

The department has disclosed no findings.

Well, Frank Walker himself had to sign off on it, didn't he? He had to sign off on, am I prepared to have my advertising to be seen to be annoyingly good? I've got...

If you have a look on Campaign Brief, et cetera, or Ad News, B&T, Mumbrella, I think it gets a thumbs up.

I think the campaign does get a thumbs up from those that like to talk about these things online, let alone us talking about it on a podcast.

So let's...

But lo and behold...

The Real, Michael Burns, or is it, popped up this week on a new podcast that our friend Irene is with Tim Burrows on, on Mumbrella.

Now, Michael popped up.

Now, I'd like to think that I write very good satire.

So we have deliberately hooked you through to the end of the podcast and with the promise that Irene is going to be on.

And I promise you she's about to be in your ears.

So Irene has now joined Mumbrella and she's doing some breaking news podcasts for them.

But I can reveal that she's also starting her own podcast, which is great.