Public Address | Cafe | Hard News: We need to talk about Kevin

Nick Dale

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:12:16 +1300

UK television seems more inclined to promote from within now, rather than run the risk of hiring another Andy Duncan, who headed Channel 4, after a career marketing "I Can't Believe it's Not Butter". He expanded the broadcaster commercially, but ran amok with content, famously mishandling the Big Brother racism…

Steve Barnes

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:06:58 +1300

Such types are just modern-day earls and barons by another name.

I was wondering... If an Earl can receive an OBE would that make him an Earlobe?
I'll get my coat...

Rob Stowell

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:41:57 +1300

McManagement.
Like it :)
Myles: very good questions! Be great to think Kev has good answers
Print (who are more desperate!) seem to be embracing ‘convergence’. They use video and audio clips, get photos up fast, and seem more committed to it than TV.
Are we heading for a time…

andin

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:33:14 +1300

Yes, but Seven Sharp is a new low.

I was wondering what that blunt instrument, that struck me on the head as I viewed by, was ...

linger

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:25:24 +1300

modern-day earls and barons […]: McManagement.
That’d be a modern-day laird.
But, yeah: landed gentry
(mostly also in the sense of “fish out of water”).

Kumara Republic

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:23:25 +1300

More on-topic: the habit of installing generic managers is a terrible curse. I think it’s based on the fallacy that because exceptional managers can be exceptional at managing almost anything, all management is generic and specific industry background and knowledge is not just unnecessary, it can mean the applicant is…

Euan Mason

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:21:42 +1300

"Personally, I’m more interested in the fact that a pretty stale orthodoxy in the format of TV current affairs is being shaken up a little than that some of those attempts at shaking up haven’t immediately worked out."

Yes, but Seven Sharp is a new low.

andin

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:13:00 +1300

I, for one, am not about to complain
I'l just whinge a little bit then.
I wish I could look forward to Jane Campion's new made for TV Drama. But I dont have Sky.
The Holly Hunter character is apparently based on UG Krishnamurti. The person who told a certain…

Myles Thomas

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:09:28 +1300

And also please ask him if he thinks the request for high dividends from the shareholder equates to editorial control of news and current affairs – no long form docos, entertaining current affairs etc.

Myles Thomas

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:06:53 +1300

Please ask him what new digital initiatives TVNZ is planning.

Rob Stowell

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:59:37 +1300

More on-topic: the habit of installing generic managers is a terrible curse. I think it's based on the fallacy that because exceptional managers can be exceptional at managing almost anything, all management is generic and specific industry background and knowledge is not just unnecessary, it can mean the applicant is…

Rob Stowell

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:31:12 +1300

When the funding rules start reflecting what ‘broadcaster’ can mean these days, it might not matter so much.
You'd think, and it's wearing about the edges (music videos- maybe not the edge anymore? :)) But try bringing this up with regional broadcasters and you tend to get an earful.

Sacha

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:59:14 +1300

if the programme doesn't have a broadcaster it doesn't get made.

When the funding rules start reflecting what 'broadcaster' can mean these days, it might not matter so much.

Steve Barnes

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:54:50 +1300

(It seems only fair to note that TVNZ news and current affairs has not exactly been a heathy editorial operation itself in recent years. It could be argued that it needed shaking up by some hand.) So. are you suggesting Matt Heath be CEO of TVNZ?. I could think of…

Dylan Reeve

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:34:18 +1300

Sadly he's right about TVNZ's responsibilities in that respect though. With no charter anymore TVNZ has only one obligation and that is profit and it's shareholder has made it clear in the past that it expect to extract the highest dividend possible.

We still tend to see TVNZ as "our…

Graham Dunster

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:18:44 +1300

I read an article recently in which Kevin was quoted (or similar) as saying that TVNZ didn't need to worry about PBS material as that is NZOA's responsibility. If he does believe that can you please quiz him mercilessly on the fact that the 'networks', TVNZ & TV3, totally control anything…

Tim Michie

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:37:30 +1300

Although not local I've appreciated Triange/Face's Al Jazeera, DW & PBS coverage (and more but my languages are limited).

Sacha

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:04:24 +1300

Plenty of action this year as you say. However, I'm saddened to see so many of the same faces being recycled at the expense of newer talent. Is the industry not training up younger journalists and presenters to take on these key roles as much any more?

Public Address

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:04:24 +1300

Discussion from blog post.