Boning month

How Crikey.com.au saw the departure of Seven's high profile Naiomi Robson:

2006 has hardly been a banner year for women in commercial TV.

<!-- D(["mb","Yesterday, Seven\'s Today Tonight host Naomi Robson fell on her microphone and announced she wouldn\'t be back in 2007. Last Friday, the Ten Network flicked newsreader Tracey Spicer in a particularly churlish manner via email to her manager.

This follows the infamous "boning" comments about Today\'s Jessica Rowe and the undermining of Jana Wendt when she hosted the Sunday program for Nine. The network will be glad the TV spotlight has moved away from its on air personnel decisions.

Robson\'s decision follows a difficult year which has featured enough instances of her lack of judgement for Seven management to lose confidence in her for next year, even though Today Tonight leads ACA by 166,000 viewers a night.

That figure is a bit misleading because it includes the usual 100,000 plus margin TT wins by in Perth most nights. The reality is that ACA has closed the gap significantly in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane where a discernible anti-Naomi factor appears a couple of nights a week. It\'s not every night; on other nights TT wins handsomely but it has been enough for Seven management to worry about 2007.

Hence the lack of enthusiasm for re-signing her and her slow but steady recognition of that fact, which culminated with her announcement at the end of last night\'s edition of the program. ",1] ); //--> Yesterday, Seven's Today Tonight host Naomi Robson fell on her microphone and announced she wouldn't be back in 2007. Last Friday, the Ten Network flicked newsreader Tracey Spicer in a particularly churlish manner via email to her manager.

This follows the infamous "boning" comments about Today's Jessica Rowe and the undermining of Jana Wendt when she hosted the Sunday program for Nine. The

network will be glad the TV spotlight has moved away from its on air personnel decisions.

Robson's decision follows a difficult year which has featured enough instances of her lack of judgement for Seven management to lose confidence in her for next year, even though Today Tonight leads ACA by 166,000 viewers a night.