Matt Doran seen at the Qatar Airways Canberra Launch gala dinner on February 13, 2018. Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images for Qatar Airways
Channel 7 secured Australia's sole interview with Adele ahead of the release of her new album, "30."
Matt Doran said in the interview he hadn't heard "30." Sony then withheld the rights to the footage.
Doran was temporarily taken off the air by Channel 7 as a result, local media reported.
An Australian TV host landed an exclusive interview with Adele, but the footage was withheld after he told her that he hadn't listened to her new album, "30."
Matthew Doran, the host of Channel 7's the "Weekend Sunrise" show, flew to London from Sydney — a journey of about 10,000 miles — on November 4 to interview Adele in her only album interview with an Australian outlet, the country's The Daily Telegraph reported.
During the interview, when asked by Adele what he thought of the new album, Doran said he hadn't listened to it yet, the Telegraph reported. It added that the singer was offended.
The interview ran to completion, the outlet said, but Sony, which owns Adele's music, later told Channel 7 that it was withholding the rights to the interview footage as a result of Doran's oversight.
Several reports said Doran was subsequently suspended by Channel 7, but Doran told The Australian on Sunday that he wasn't "formally" suspended. But he was off the air for one week.
He returned to his slot on the network on Saturday.
The total package for the rights to the Adele interview footage — which included access to video from Oprah Winfrey's "One Night Only" with Adele — cost Channel 7 about $1 million Australian dollars ($725,000), The Telegraph said.
Doran told The Australian that he received an early link to listen to "30" over email, but that he missed it during the trip to London.
"When I sat down to interview Adele, I was totally unaware that I'd been emailed a preview of her unreleased album," he said.
"I have since discovered it was sent to me as an 'e-card' link, which I somehow missed upon landing in London. It was an oversight but not a deliberate snub. This is the most important email I have ever missed," he continued.
Nonetheless, Doran was heavily criticized on social media by Adele fans and other journalists.
Adele fans flooded the comments section of a November 3 Instagram post from Doran in which he said, "This one is going to be pretty special …"
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gibubby on November 23rd, 2021 at 06:52 UTC »
it all makes sense once you understand how absolutely dogshit the standard of journalistic integrity and capability is in Australia.
way2funni on November 23rd, 2021 at 01:02 UTC »
The title is a little misleading and gives the impression the interview never happened. It did. Adele sat with the host and asked him at some point during the interview if he had listened to her album and he had not and said so.
It was Sony who withheld the footage from the market after the interview was concluded.
She may have had a hand in it (reportedly, she was offended)
shames32 on November 22nd, 2021 at 23:33 UTC »
Did anyone read the article? It explains how he missed the album. What I'm curious about too is that Sony owns the rights to any interview footage too? That seems odd.