Hard News: Reading the Numbers
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Russell Brown, in reply to
A dish plus installation costs plus the decoder (TVs don't come with satellite decoders, terrestrial only) looks expensive compared to signing up, so Sky win by default and if you can't afford Sky you may well have to go without.
Best way of doing it is to get an installation deal with Sky on the shortest possible contract, then drop Sky and get a $50 Freeview satellite decoder.
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Sacha, in reply to
But when National came in, the minister first leaned on TVNZ to make the digital channels available free to Sky, and then on the Kordia SOE to cut a sweet deal for Prime to get Freeview transmission.
And people claim these guys are all about free markets? Puhlease.
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merc,
They monetised tv by giving it away, awe. I wonder if the wonderful Mr Joyce intends doing a Fay Richwhite on the spoils, at a respectable distance down the track (cough). Worth a small exile to gain a cheap media empire, or in this case a reverse takeover, because TVNZ is dead now...all we need is for the Sky City convention deal to take the building in Hobson Street...
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Step right up...
They monetised tv by giving it away, awe
The inverse devil-in-the-detail shoe drops...
Freeview pay-per-view may arrive in time for Christmas
Freeview is now only used to let people watch free digital television. But chief executive Sam Irvine said all FreeviewHD set-top boxes and Freeview-certified TVs with broadband ports sold since mid-2010 could support an "interactive channel" that could play videos on demand.
These could be either free or charged for by broadcasters. "We are a free platform but there is nothing to say someone couldn't [charge]."The large print giveth and
the small print taketh away...(apologies to Tom Waits)
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merc, in reply to
Yep, Joyce has a template for those who want to make, erm, do the same for other things of national importance.
Silence is golden but sometimes it's gilt.
It really surprises me that no media journalist has noticed the rather large broadcasting elephant in the corner of the room. -
Kumara Republic, in reply to
It really surprises me that no media journalist has noticed the rather large broadcasting elephant in the corner of the room.
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merc,
...those are not the elephants you're looking for ;-)
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psychomaths and sociomaths...
As well as this wonderful Key quote retrieval effort ...
...this article also seems to be rubbing people's noses in it:Charter schools will have "greater flexibility" to set their own class sizes than those in the state sector, the businesswoman leading the trial says.
The terms of reference for how the Government's controversial education pilot will operate have been released – as the backlash over moves to increase class sizes grows.
The document outlines the model for charter schools, which will be publicly funded per child but run by businesses or non-profit organisations. It confirms they will have freedom from some Education Ministry regulations, be able to set their own teaching practice, and will not have to stick to the national curriculum. NZEI president Ian Leckie says this will free them from complying with National Standards.Why am I reminded of the concept that free market electricity would lead to cheaper prices...
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
It confirms they will have freedom from some Education Ministry regulations, be able to set their own teaching practice, and will not have to stick to the national curriculum.
Does that mean stuff like Intelligent Design and Scientology could also sneak into the curriculum?
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merc, in reply to
Bingo, privatised education, one of the elephants we are not looking for.
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Danielle, in reply to
be able to set their own teaching practice, and will not have to stick to the national curriculum
Oh, *great*. Profit-turning schools pumping out ignorant fundies at a rate of knots.
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