Posts by Sacha
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Fhui ?
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cheese-eating surrender monkeys
I love that phrase
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Ummmm, how are "tokens for x days off during the year" any different to annual leave?
Law could specify they can only be used one day at a time, not in blocks.
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Exactly - much respect
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Visiting Canadian expert Michael Geist was interviewed about ACTA on Radio NZ this morning (streaming, 27 minutes).
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Signatures have topped 3,000. Only about another 12 hours before it's presented - so please read and sign the Wellington Declaration now, and tell your friends the same.
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Totally agree, no benefits to smaller players - and frankly that's our whole industry at this stage. Software is already covered by copyright, so business-process-type patents just add another layer of complexity, slowness and expense without benefitting NZ developers or worldwide consumers whatsoever.
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it was cafe jazz
That fits. Someone told me George was initially aimed at providing daytime background music for Ponsonby retailers, which in turn generated the advertising goodwill. Props to anyone who gets a station off the ground, including the mad buggers who started radio bosom.
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Bfm's commitment to gigs of all sorts has been a welcome feature for most of its life. And its scale has always marked it out.
There was a point after 2000 where Auckland social life emphatically swung back to bands playing, and bFM was there.
I was talking early 90s - and I contend it was bfm that failed to refresh at that stage, not Active. It seemed that rather average rock bands got disproportionate help pushing their music, at the expense of electronic artists. Of course when the pendulum swung back to rock, bfm was well placed. Happy to take your word about whatever Active is doing now, Russell, as I don't follow them.
I'd have to say that Mikey's idea of dance music has always been rather mono-dimensional, especially compared with the specialist shows that I am grateful bfm has maintained throughout. Ooonst is not what some of us seek out in the morning any more than yapping is. Others obviously love it.
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Mike has the personality and presence that keeps people like me going back to bfm
... and switched me and many friends right off at the time. If we had wanted braying and blathering in the morning, there was plenty of commercial radio around.
I believe that if bfm had properly reflected the dance music that came through in the early 90s (like Radio Active did) rather than propping up derivative rock, the other stations like George would never have got a foot in the door. Not that I mind having options.