Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Media Mathematics, in reply to Lew Stoddart,
It should be a news story, but the fundamental trouble here is that the decision to defund public service broadcasting doesn’t hinge on the data – the actual real figures are irrelevant to the Minister’s position, which is ideological rather than utilitarian.
It's also worth noting that audience size wasn't a deliverable in the original agreement between TVNZ and the government. TVNZ 6 and 7 weren't expected to rate like commercial channels. In that light, a million and a half viewers a month is really pretty good.
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Hard News: Media Mathematics, in reply to Steve Reeves,
I would expect the minister concerned to now come on here and respond, or at least apologise!
It'll be interesting to see whether anyone regards it as a news story. You'd think.
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Alternative angle. He was actually asleep at the time.
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Colin finds the warm, muggy weather quite trying. He has to seek shade in whatever narrow place he finds it.
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Capture: Ngāi Tahu, in reply to Adrienne Rewi,
I’ve only read a couple of Kozoil’s pieces but fascinating multi-cultural stance. Must source more.
I’ve think he’s living back in Auckland now. He’s a very nice, talented man.
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Hard News: Television and the Public Good, in reply to merc,
So obvious that Key has Police onside and McElrea is compromised. My guess, nothing will happen except boys be richer. Political appointments are all political says Key, because parliament appoints them.
Let’s see what the police have to say, shall we? Personally, I was appalled by the show, but I’m very uneasy with the prospect of a media organisation – even one solely seeking profit, as Radio Live was – being hit with such a large fine.
It’s also worth noting that McIlrea was on a committee of four that commissioned the issues documentaries. I know two of the others, and they’re decent people. On the other hand, by raising a complaint about the child poverty documentary the way he did, McIlrea put himself under scrutiny as a political appointee, so my sympathy for him is very limited indeed. I think he will be under pressure for as long as he's on the board.
The one that really irks me is the Health doco. We’re going to learn about the challenges facing the New Zealand health system via an obs-doc at Queenstown Hospital? Really? Presumably it came down to what the networks would screen, but if you want an example of the trivialising of discourse, this looks like it.
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Capture: Ngāi Tahu, in reply to Adrienne Rewi,
The second was at the tiny Māori settlement of Nuhaka
And suddenly, I am put in mind of Leo Koziol's wonderful Naked in Nukaha series of writings.
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While we're on this tip, Tracey Thorn's Love and Its Opposite album is a wonderful, bleakly humorous examination of middle-aged drift:
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to JacksonP,
I fell in love with her here. Admittedly unpolished, but perfect in every other way, IMhO.
A Distant Shore is one wistful, melancholy gem of an album.
Mind you, I like her and Ben's housey-housey stuff too.
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Hard News: Television and the Public Good, in reply to Marknz,
1.1 million per month is considerably more that 574,000 per week. You sure?
I was at pains to emphasize the limits of any comparison, particularly given the different reporting periods (and for that matter, the two figures are gathered in wholly different ways by Nielsen). The general point was that the audience,reaches of TVNZ 7 and the Herald are in the same zone, and the Herald is on shaky ground mocking TVNZ 7 as an unwatched irrelevance.
But, in answer to your question, you don’t get a monthly cume by multiplying your weekly cume by four. It’s the total number of readers and viewers in the period. One News (to take the completely bung example offered in the first Herald editorial) has 600,000 viewers most nights but doesn’t have 600,000 different viewers every night of a weekly period.
