Posts by johnno
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If you look at "Today's Most Viewed" on the Stuff website, you'll find
1) Olsen twin wont wear bikinis
2) Scantily-clad Britney scores bad reviews.
3) Your say: Britney scores bad reviews
4) Police busted after tracking device found on car
5) My boobs are sagging, Charlize says
6) Paris has eyes for kiwi bloke
7) Body Shop founder Anita Roddick dies
8) Mother forced out of NZ
9) Your say: Disney star in nude scandal
10) Honiss under seige as 'worst' refAny truth to the suggestion that newspaper execs are pressuring the editorial staff to make the front page a bit racier?
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No no no,... If I was providing content on expenses, I'd be holed up in a suite at the Adlon and stalking Lloud Jones right about now. Sod APEC and the RWC - annoying Booker shortlisted authors is my idea of public service television. :)
Craig, you will be happy to know that the reason TVNZ had a phone interview with Lloyd Jones, and not an on-camera interview, was because they tracked him down at dinner in London, where he was a little tired and emotional (understandably), and all TVNZ's camera's were all in France covering the RWC. Nice.
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The ones who bring great change are generally the ones who have nothing to lose.
Which is essentially the situation with the emerging businesses at TVNZ. They know hardly anyone's going to see the Freeview channels for a while, which has rather liberated the thinking.
That's because they aren't the ones getting fired at the moment. As a chinless HR manager said to a bunch of my mates in News and Current Affairs as he was firing them, "it's not about content, it's about delivery".
They worked for a programme that rated 2 points above the TV1 average for that time slot.
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Get ya local news where you can - pictures and sound from the telly, and analysis and comments from the papers and PAS. There are plenty of half decent outlets out there. Just don't rely on any one source.
I was a little disappointed to see TV3 waste seven minutes of their Sunday 6.00pm bulletin on an "advertorial" for the rugby World Cup. This seems to be a thing with TV3. Anyone remember the PR puff piece Campbell Live did for Vodaphone's new cell phones?
TVNZ seems to have got it's house in order a little bit recently. It still has a hell of a way to go - losing the muppets who read their 6.00 show would be a great start. The TV3 lot seem to just have a much more relaxed, informal, low-key delivery. But 3 have to do something about the children they have reporting. When a child like Libby Middlebrook is considered experienced enough to end up on CL, then they have some serious credibility problems.
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Perhaps an enterprising print journalist might want to track down someone who has worked at TV3's 60 Minutes, the Aussie 60 Minutes, and TVNZ's Sunday. Then they could ask them which programme demanded the longest hours and had the fewest resources, and had to turn around the most stories per person per year. The answer might fly in the face of the preferred truth.
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"...If they needed to fly to Los Angeles to do a piece to camera in front of a building, it seemed, they just did it."
Any particular story in mind?
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1989, I think, and SJF were part of a Flying Nun triumverate playing a Massey Orientation gig (JPSE and the Bats were the others). The crusty stage crew made up of Palmy muso's and Radio Massey staff had created a very dodgy plywood front to the stage. Half way through their set, a number of punters had taken advantage of the easy access to the stage and had managed to get in a stage dive or two. Most were greeted with a mixture of barely-disguised scorn (guess who :-) and complete indifference (David Wood, who was the epitome of nonchalant rock-god behaviour). Finally, a slightly heavier guy gets up on the stage, acknowledges his mates in the crowds and attempts to launch himself off into rock immortality. He takes a running leap, and the stage collapses, he disappears into the dark recesses underneath, and David breaks into the most unexpected and wonderful burst of laughter mid-song
Next year, JPSE came back and played the Toga Party. The stage this time was a much better construction, with a proper crowd barrier. I was working in the pit, and noticed a young lass in the front row who seemed to be really enjoying the set. And then i noticed why. Her boyfriend was behind her and was taking advantage of the easier access the toga provided. Possibly the only time anyone has shagged to a JPSE song... ;-)
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Crikey! Niche programming on a niche channel. Just what this programme deserved. From the segments on two different episodes I had the misfortune of stumbling on, it seemed to be all about Camilla and her jolly holiday capers. Someone give me a handicam and then I'll complain when my surfing holiday to Ngawi isn't broadcast in primetime...
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Yep, we can probably expect to see Agenda, Frontseat, Marae, Waka Huia, and the rest of the ghetto charter fare at much more respectable times. I pray that we will get to see some real quality foreign current affairs, like Four Corners, Frontline and Foreign Correspondent. I would be very surprised if the money will be spent on new quality NZ current affairs. That sort of stuff is very expensive to make, and I can't see TVNZ spending big money on programmes that will only be broadcast on the digital platform. The likes of Assignment will probably never be made in NZ again.
FTA sport will again be a problem for TVNZ. Sky has virtually sown up all popular sport as subscriber viewing, and now has an outlet for FTA repeats on Prime. We might get the odd magazine show, or panel discussion, because they are cheap to make. Outside broadcasts, on the other hand, are expensive to produce. TVNZ have pretty much lost all of their sports content. It cannot afford to buy it back.
As far as I can see, most of the money will go towards staffing and cheap studio presentations. TVNZ will need to employ a number of producers to feed the news beast during the day, because they will be reluctant to pull their resources from the 6.00 bulletin on terrestrial. The new news channel will have the advantage of having a proper bulletin again later in the night (8.30?), catering to the increasing number of people who work later. The quality of the news will probably be no better, but there will be more of it. I suspect Sky News Australia will be the model - constant headline updates, a lot of weather, and plenty of sports news - all from the studio.
My fear is that TVNZ again is moving behind the times. Sky has moved a long way ahead in terms of content and interactivity. TVNZ has yet to even start broadcasting in 16:9 ( or even 14:9). This feels like an attempt catch up, but what they will find when they finally get on air, is that the competition has moved on again, and are offering limited HD programming.
PS - Russell, I gotta say there was a very good reason "The Market" was on so late, and that was because it was absolutley awful.
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I know they aren't strictly documentaries, but I would love to be able to see some quality foreign current affairs. I'm thinking stuff like the ABC's Foreign Correspondent and 4 Corners, the Beeb's Panorama, and PBS's Frontline. Then I would be a very happy camper...