Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: The real balance sheet https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351345#post351345 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351345#post351345 I’m curious as to why 3D was moved from Sunday night where it had viewers to a slot on Monday where it was doomed to fail.

Because management wanted it to fail in order to give them a reason the kill it.

]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2015 13:47:09 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351324#post351324 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351324#post351324 but I’m not sure if it’s specifically a great example of investigative journalism.

agreed....but she has good bones. https://jessmcallen.contently.com/

and right here...http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/access-disability-as-a-wicked-policy-problem/?p=345603#post345603

We remember those who tell our stories....

I have hope.

But why oh why was that article buried in the Fluffy section?

Or maybe I'm just prejudiced against…

]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:53:33 +1300 Jason Kemp https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351323#post351323 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351323#post351323 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:53:32 +1300 izogi https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351320#post351320 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351320#post351320 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:37:56 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351312#post351312 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351312#post351312 Who still does it?

Jess McAllen....

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11541769

I was ridiculously impressed by this article. Love the juxtaposition of the photos and paintings.

If 'quality journalism' in NZ can be indicated by making it on to the Farrar/Slater shit-list...this young woman has made it.

]]> Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:12:59 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351296#post351296 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351296#post351296 That fact alone would allow Weldon to claim that the series was unprofitable.

pissing off the 6pm News show's long-time financial segment sponsor, ASB – priceless.

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:48:29 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351295#post351295 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351295#post351295 I’m leaning more toward another diagnosis: incompetence.

StopPress story "Current affairs has a future, but it’s unlikely to be found in a teleprompter " supports that.

While it isn’t easy to make current affairs commercially viable, new media news publishers like Vice, Buzzfeed and The Young Turks have found massive…

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:44:40 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351294#post351294 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351294#post351294 the Speedo© Factor…
I’m leaning more toward another diagnosis: incompetence.
Let’s not forget Weldon is an ex-performance swimmer, that’s a tight ‘stay-in-the-lane-swim-faster-than-the-next-bloke’ mentality right there…
a tad limiting in the fast changing communication gene pool – but that’s why he’s heading for the shallow end as fast as his ‘one-kick…

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:30:07 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351290#post351290 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351290#post351290 …does this mean that the IQ of the country is rising?
Hmmm, when you put it that way
– there is a gap in the NZ market for a Kiwi version of QI...

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:11:26 +1300 Alfie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351289#post351289 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351289#post351289 Investigative journalism costs more. Agree about ‘news’.

News is expensive when it's done properly because of the large teams involved. I seem to remember the One News budget was around $45m per year, and that was back in the 90s. NZonAir paid TV3 around $56k for each of the ten…

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:59:16 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351288#post351288 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351288#post351288 "come up with another show within six days"

Hot on Bookface this week

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:52:19 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351287#post351287 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351287#post351287 Investigative journalism costs a lot. Agree about 'news' and drama. ]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:44:50 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351286#post351286 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351286#post351286 They've saved The Bachelor!

I reckon Te Bachelorette would be more interesting in NZ. Christie!!

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:41:22 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351285#post351285 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351285#post351285 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:37:44 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351284#post351284 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351284#post351284 or put our own money into Scoop

Yes – their PledgeMe page has about a week to run.

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:33:36 +1300 Trevor Nicholls https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351282#post351282 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351282#post351282 By comparison, Trash TV like The Block costs much more per hour to produce than 3D.

Maybe, but trash TV like The Block is basically sponsored programming: product placement and stealth advertising.

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:19:26 +1300 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351279#post351279 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351279#post351279 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 18:01:21 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351277#post351277 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351277#post351277 Guys! Everything's okay! They've saved The Bachelor!

(News from the Herald's spy.co.nz, which is eating the lunch of yet another MediaWorks flub, Scout, on what I'm guessing will be a fraction of the budget.)

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 17:26:44 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351275#post351275 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351275#post351275 I still don’t think that’s the case. Seems too crazy, despite the circumstantial evidence. I’m leaning more toward another diagnosis: incompetence.

It is interesting how long people will persist in denying the obvious, even long after the train has run them over and the accident inspector has blamed them for…

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 17:12:14 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351272#post351272 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351272#post351272 If ratings across much of TV3's programming are falling...does this mean that the IQ of the country is rising?

There may be hope yet.

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:47:59 +1300 WaterDragon https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351270#post351270 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351270#post351270 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:39:08 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351268#post351268 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351268#post351268 Duncan Greive was enthusiastic about the launch of the “new” MediaWorks a year ago. Last week, he wrote this:

Now 3D has been put into the Campbell Live sleeper hold, after being shunted from a plum 6.30pm Sunday slot, straight after the news, to a terrible 9.30pm Monday slot, following…

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 16:26:19 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351263#post351263 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351263#post351263 Nice post, but depressing.

From all the discussion here and input from folks who actually know shit it just seems that TV3 management have made a decision to go in a particular direction. From everything I've read about Weldon and Christie they won't ever admit they have made the wrong…

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:44:16 +1300 Alfie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351259#post351259 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351259#post351259 It costs a lot to do…

While that’s Weldon’s excuse, it’s not entirely true Sacha. I’ve worked across a lot of different TV genres and current affairs doesn’t cost the earth. Drama is the most expensive television to make while good investigative work only requires a comparitively small team –…

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:00:27 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351245#post351245 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351245#post351245 And it's difficult to see any other logical explanation for the insane rush to kill investigative journalism at TV3.

It costs a lot to do, is enough of a reason if the benefits are not financialised or compelled by regulation.

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 12:50:43 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351238#post351238 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351238#post351238 One wonders what Mediaworks’ owners Oaktree Capital Management must think of this fiasco. After all, Weldon was brought in to return TV3 to profit in preparation for its eventual sale. Destroying the company’s credibility and trashing its ratings would seem to be at odds with this goal.

If MediaWorks goes…

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:57:40 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351236#post351236 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351236#post351236 Without scrutiny, what do those in authority do? It’s a rhetorical question, the answer is there in any history book.

Jeremy Scahill put it best: "know what's worse than government propaganda from state-owned media? Government propaganda from non-state-owned media."

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:51:48 +1300 Alfie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351232#post351232 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351232#post351232 Thanks for a well thought out piece Tim. I'm sure you echo the thoughts of many of us who appreciate the art of good journalism.

The publication of Dirty Politics exposed this government's ongoing strategy to manipulate the media and silence any effective criticism of their policies. But a year…

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:32:36 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351227#post351227 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351227#post351227 Kirsty Johnston.

An absolute champ who upends every round she takes on and shakes out the stories.

For the the flak it gets, the Herald in general provides more support for investigative reporting than any other news organisation in the country.

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:19:02 +1300 Rosemary McDonald https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351226#post351226 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351226#post351226 Who still does it?

Kirsty Johnston. Simon Collins. Off the top of my head.

I gave up on telly when all free to air channels aired the same type of program at the same time.

You used to be able to watch two channels at once...the ad breaks were staggered.…

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:40:48 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351223#post351223 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351223#post351223 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:37:47 +1300 simon g https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351222#post351222 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351222#post351222 Thanks for this, Tim.

It is hard to be optimistic about investigative journalism in New Zealand. Who still does it?

I'm no media expert, so off the top of my head: David Fisher at the Herald, John Stephenson (who gets defamed for his troubles), Nicky Hager (who gets his rights…

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:27:12 +1300 Angela Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351220#post351220 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351220#post351220 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 09:02:06 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351218#post351218 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351218#post351218 The value of 3D, of any investigative journalism, can’t be measured by ratings.

Until broadcasting licenses come with a non-negotiable requirement for news and current affairs journalism, clowns like Weldon will continue to devalue its worth.

]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2015 07:56:23 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351217#post351217 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351217#post351217 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 07:35:51 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351216#post351216 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-the-real-balance-sheet/?p=351216#post351216 Discussion from blog post.

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