Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: Rage and change: RNZ's music problem

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 09:29:24 +1300

They are fighting for two different processing areas in the brain.
The visual cortex in the occipital lobe and the primary auditory cortex which lies in the superior temporal gyrus of the temporal lobe.

One size does not fit all...

Rob Stowell

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:26:31 +1300

The same newsroom supporting different agendas, schedules, formats, and values is a recipe for disaster, IMO. For it to work, you'd have to build it up slowly from shared values – and that would take time and, IMO, a news service that's not dependent on advertising – or part of…

Ben Austin

Tue, 18 Feb 2020 04:28:08 +1300

I could sort of see it making sense if RNZ, like TVNZ/whatever 3 is now called were all in the same city/area AND there was quite a bit of new money coming in, so it could be plausibly argued that the newsrooms could cohabit and the new money keep the…

Simon Bennett

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:39:54 +1300

For someone who has worked in television for the last 25 years, this fills me with terror too.

Rob Stowell

Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:13:41 +1300

I am still a bit unclear on what the benefit is to RNZ or the RNZ audience by the merger.
Yes- it looks to me like endangering everything good about RNZ in an effort to solve another problem – the lack of public broadcasting on TV. RNZ have already moved…

Kumara Republic

Sat, 15 Feb 2020 23:52:27 +1300

Whatever happens, the re-merger needs to make sure there's more RNZ in TVNZ – think the old TVNZ6 & TVNZ7 – instead of the other way round.

Ben Austin

Sat, 15 Feb 2020 04:23:31 +1300

I am still a bit unclear on what the benefit is to RNZ or the RNZ audience by the merger.

Surely after several decades of financial neglect there isn't really much in the way of savings that could be made by merging it into another organisation to save money and…

Walter Nicholls

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:54:20 +1300

6 Music, which is digital-only

It is on DAB radio* which is equivalent to being on FM, but that is a whole other story to get into (NZ: spectrum use, broadcasting equipment, receivers in the hands of the public). As to Freeview which we do have – I've never seen…

Russell Brown

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:46:37 +1300

Dangerous to assume what applies in the UK applies here but interesting nonetheless.

Couple of things there. Radio 3's audience boost followed what was widely decried as a dumbing down – especially the cutting back of non-classical specialist shows,

Also, the actual numbers are interesting: a bit over 10 million…

Rob Stowell

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:55:48 +1300

Tautoko Roger and Simon. The only thing to add is that this move to eliminate Concert FM comes in the shadow of what looks like a much larger plan to eliminate RNZ entirely – or rather, to submerge it in a ‘new’ broadcasting entity along with TVNZ. I can’t fully…

Lilith __

Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:36:26 +1300

CBC's TuneIn app is worth a look. Plenty of content, general and local: music, sports, podcasts and shows, with the option of making your own podcasts. Pretty good.

Lilith __

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 23:11:22 +1300

Those who support Concert might like to sign the petition, which now has over 20,000 signatures.

Lilith __

Sun, 09 Feb 2020 23:08:15 +1300

Concert plays a lot more than Classical music: they play orchestral music from all over Europe and spanning hundreds of years, plus contemporary and New Zealand composers; choral music; opera; jazz; visual arts interviews; contemporary ambient (I first heard Rhian Sheehan on Concert); and a lot more.

They record and…

Walter Nicholls

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 17:40:52 +1300

Also sorry for the paywalled link but this 2 days ago from the UK:
"Radio 3 has posted its highest audience ratings in three years as young people migrate to classical music ... Radio 1, the BBC’s flagship youth station, slumped"
Dangerous to assume what applies in the UK applies…

Walter Nicholls

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 17:37:50 +1300

Concert’s share has even ticked up a bit to 4% of the listening audience
My understanding of maths is that 165000 listeners is close to 3½% of the total population – do 85% of NZers listen to the radio? I guess they might.
The RNZ line is that the proposed…

Simon Bennett

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:10:13 +1300

While I have no problem with the creation of a new public service radio station, aimed at younger diverse listeners (other than skepticism as to whether this will work in the age of streaming and in an already saturated market), I have a serious issue with what seems to be…

Roger Horrocks

Sat, 08 Feb 2020 11:03:16 +1300

That is a thoughtful overview, Russell, and the complications you mention are certainly part of the situation. My own view is that they should basically leave Concert alone, as it is, because it is not merely a station – it is an established community, a culture, to which much of…

Hamish W

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 20:02:15 +1300

I think everyone needs to chill and believe that when they say youth targeted station, all us mid 30 to mid 50 years olds will actually probably quite enjoy it, we all love our regional bfm, active,radio one stations but this presents an opportunity to provide one of those with…

Ned

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:09:10 +1300

You contrast a what if scenario with the fact that ConcertFM is failing. This isn’t an attempt to kill it but to save what they can.

bob daktari

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:11:04 +1300

why we’re being presented with a zero-sum game

exactly

Outside of frequencies, I’m really concerned at Concert being gutted, its a vital avenue for a lot of music and musicians (local and international) – it’d not be nearly so bad if a slightly changed version of the current station was…

Hans Versluys

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:39:17 +1300

What happens if RNZ Triple Yooth fails? How will the expertise now available at Concert FM ever be brought back?
Currently Concert FM broadcasts huge amount of hours of performances by NZ musicians and singers (not just records by NZ artists as they do on pop music stations). It records…

Public Address

Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:39:17 +1300

Discussion from blog post.