Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Radio New Zealand: changing the channel

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 07:45:55 +1200

inter-state free weigh...
a boojum
...something else has vanished
freezing subatomic gobos?
cheshire phase quellers?
are they in the LCD screens?
(interesting that Tobacco mosaic virus has liquid crystalline phases and structures like many other proteins & detergents – interface material?
the electric potato?
hmmm)

Out here in the Anisotropics
the…

linger

Sun, 29 Jun 2014 03:53:19 +1200

snark, which appears to have put on weight.
Which would make it a boojum.
(Conservation of total mass of system => something else has vanished.)

Sacha

Sat, 28 Jun 2014 22:49:53 +1200

running down a welli hq has no intrinsic relationship with quality, is all.
who you calling fat, boy?

Marc C

Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:52:24 +1200

Quote: "Inevitably, some concern will focus on what could be seen as a demotion of the position of news – and perhaps a move to news managerialism. The General Manager of Content will have very broad responsibilities, from news to drama and music."

TVNZ has been "dismantled", so to say,…

Jos

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:40:00 +1200

Yes, a good read Mr brown! :)
I'm looking forward to the program!

nzlemming

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:48:53 +1200

Well am I wrong in understanding RNZ is principally run of Wellington? Or is this some wider comment about quality?

You're not altogether wrong, although they do have a major Auckland component and other smaller branches around the place. Sacha was just indulging his snark, which appears to have put…

Ben Austin

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:08:08 +1200

Well am I wrong in understanding RNZ is principally run of Wellington? Or is this some wider comment about quality?

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:01:33 +1200

On other media contributions, lovely interview in the Herald this morning, Russell.

Sacha

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:12:12 +1200

running down the central bureau in Wellington, which could undermine the current quality

only if you equate quality with wellington

Sacha

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 23:11:13 +1200

If it won't be funded properly, then it should specialise, focusing on

.. whatever the government of the day reckons is significant.

Ben Austin

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:03:31 +1200

The BBC gets sufficient funding to chase the entire audience range and so attempts to do so (whether it does so successfully, or should attempt this is another question). RNZ does not. If it won't be funded properly, then it should specialise, focusing on what makes it different from the…

Paul Williams

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:12:16 +1200

When we first started Media7, we had then-Education correspondent Gael Woods on to talk about reporting of the Avondale school stabbing incident, and I was so impressed with the way she knew the story every whichway, including things I hadn't thought of.

I had many dealings with Gael when I…

Simon Bennett

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:04:49 +1200

I'm struggling with 'integration' these days – in the product-placement sense of the word. 360 degree brand integration with content. Sad.

Sacha

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:05:24 +1200

Doesn't RNZ already 'outrate' the commercial stations?

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:44:25 +1200

MT words...
It’s Media Take
Will there be online access to replay as well?
(now that You Tube is changing)
Plus extra 'content' perhaps, as before...

Do 'you' still own your own history
(medias 7 thru 3), can you use old material
or revisit and build on earlier stories?

Maybe…

Myles Thomas

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 00:18:03 +1200

By chasing another 500,000 listeners (content consumers?) Radio NZ may be entering its own little ratings race. Meeting that target they might be tempted to shorten all reports, keep it snappy, run competitions and stick to more positive themes. Hard to believe but look at the rest of NZ media.…

Hebe

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:52:34 +1200

Count me as a mal-content. Seems the world has gone to hell in a handbasket when National Radio is being rebored.

martinb

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:49:29 +1200

"We can only hope that the proposed changes don’t break things that don’t need fixing."

Here was me thinking that as a provider of Radio about NZ, radio NZ already had an excellent internet service. Concerned about any changes. After Guyon to Morning Report I'd need to feel that the…

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:56:33 +1200

just say when..

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:54:37 +1200

We could assemble over the road at that French place if it's still there. :)

Russell Brown

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:45:41 +1200

without an audience?

With audience. Not sure where to tell people to assemble etc. It's quite difficult there.

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:29:14 +1200

which will be at the building site formerly known at TVNZ

without an audience?

Russell Brown

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:14:48 +1200

Which reminds me, Russell, how are things going with MediaMatters? I am looking to Semester B teaching and it would good to be able to take students on field trips again.

It’s Media Take and it launches on July 1!

Let us settle into recordings-- which will be at the…

Geoff Lealand

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:01:39 +1200

Which reminds me, Russell, how are things going with MediaMatters? I am looking to Semester B teaching and it would good to be able to take students on field trips again.

RNZ has gone rather dullish in the weekday afternoons. I think it needs new voices.

Russell Brown

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:46:42 +1200

But the specialists that really know their round, have strong contacts with all the players, and a depth of knowledge to see the scoops that set the agenda instead of following it? That’s value you can’t reduce to a line item on a spreadsheet.

When we first started Media7, we…

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:37:50 +1200

If I recall rightly, the special correspondents system was set up by Al Morrison and it's been a real treasure. Fortunately, it looks like they're not going to mess with it.

Good – because if we're going to get into managerialspeak "authoritative" is exactly the box a sound news and…

Rob Stowell

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:46:38 +1200

Wish this made me feel enthusiasm for what could be, rather than fear for the loss of what we have.
On the one hand, there's plenty of vacant space in the public broadcasting/news-covering sphere.
On the other, doing more with less is music to managers. But it can be a…

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:26:04 +1200

over emphasis on politics. To me that reflects their resource allocation with a big political team and not much else.

To me it reflects them still being too much a creature of Wellington..

Russell Brown

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:11:52 +1200

Some non-politics reporters really know their stuff – Lois Williams in Northland, their Education reporter and so on…..

Todd Niall in Auckland is also a welcome source of measured, knowledgeable reporting. If I recall rightly, the special correspondents system was set up by Al Morrison and it's been a real…

Tinakori

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:08:43 +1200

I don't much care how the news arrives as long as it is accurate which is I think the first requirement for taxpayer funded news radio. That doesn't mean they have to get it right first time every time but when they do screw up it should 1. bother them…

Tristan

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:07:38 +1200

with the herald going behind a paywall soon (ill believe it when i see it) a second news website with the kind of independence I can rely on would actually be pretty cool. At least we could skip those awfull pop ads and preroll adverts on video content

Ianmac

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:57:45 +1200

That’s just ever so slightly condescending there, Ianmac.

Not meant to be Craig. Great believer in freedom of choice. Just hope that programs such as Morning Report does not sacrifice content in order to make it more popular.

paddy free

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:51:12 +1200

I hate the term "content" too. For me, it's one of the other two "C-words"... "Content" and "Client".

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:14:37 +1200

...as if we were just shovelling words into
the spaces between advertising.
Damn!
Rotters!
There goes my secret ComPost start up idea...
a big jumble of information,
dry and wet, prodded
and turned till eventually
it becomes the 'good dirt'

Haven't thought it
through fully as yet...

Decomposition is merely…

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:11:51 +1200

Hope that doesn't mean that news programs like Morning Report slip into frothy stuff to appeal to frothy people who love to hear about the Royal family doings and what celebrities eat, in order to widen the audience.

That's just ever so slightly condescending there, Ianmac. For one, I didn't…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:10:45 +1200

"Radio New Zealand is radio-centric ..."
Hmm.
+1,
with knobs on!

Kumara Republic

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:08:42 +1200

On the other hand, most of what’s on the Radio New Zealand website is repurposed radio content. So what could be a substantial story today on the leak of a memo on what looks like a developing debacle around the new Crown Company Health Benefits Limited is sold short online…

Bill Bennett

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:30:20 +1200

"General Manager of Content"

After years of working in the media, I hear alarm bells whenever a manager uses the word 'content' instead of news, reporting, journalism or whatever. Remember advertising, editorial and propaganda are also all 'content'.

There seems to be a direct correlation between the use of this…

Ianmac

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:11:40 +1200

The need for Radio New Zealand to increase both the size and diversity of its audience is emphasised throughout the material distributed to staff.
Hope that doesn't mean that news programs like Morning Report slip into frothy stuff to appeal to frothy people who love to hear about the Royal…

Rich of Observationz

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:59:08 +1200

Well, quite. And I assume they are not funded to produce a text news website, which isn't (like a newspaper) a question of delivering text you were already writing in a different form.

It does interest me the difference in scale between an alternative broadcaster like Active or bFM (two…

Alan Perrott

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:27:07 +1200

no time to think about this, busy reeling from the loss of Radio Sport's FM frequency. although I spose AM will lend a little nostalgic static to Wads's cricket commentary.

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:15:05 +1200

If they follow this government's approach to television when it handed Heartland to Sky, RNZ may become a news-gathering shop providing free content to private broadcasters.

Tom Semmens

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:12:42 +1200

This government hates public radio and has frozen its budget forever. It’s hatchet man CEO Paul Thompson says the future is online and (on thin evidence) declares broadcast radio dying.

The end game is obvious. Sell off the frequencies, and all of RNZ will become an internet only shell. It’ll…

Sacha

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:46:53 +1200

How does setting up separate management streams for radio and online services ensure better convergence and efficient use of content across all channels?

Jonathan King

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:32:26 +1200

"Radio New Zealand is radio-centric ..." Hmm.

Public Address

Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:32:26 +1200

Discussion from blog post.