Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Dancing Fool, in reply to Tom Beard,
Oh cool! And intense.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Dancing Fool, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Here is Denis Lavant dancing by himself to Rhythm of the Night:
I have been known to dance to the sound of a coffee-grinder.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Did you see Lorde’s toots about getting death threats from Miley fans*, outraged their their queen has been displaced by some pretender to the throne?
No, but I saw one Lana Del Rey tweeter who ventured that Lorde might have a point in what she said about Lana report that she was getting death threats.
It's clearly fairly rugged out there.
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Hmm. Perhaps the run of 'Royals' at number on one the US chart ain't over yet.
It's just dislodged 'Wrecking ball' at No.1 on the iTunes chart.
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Bart Janssen,
He seems determined to wilfully mischaracterise the whole situation.
But my name is spelt right, so I'm calling that a win and leaving it there.
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Sigh ...
John Drinnan covers the stoush, and gives a masterclass in missing the point.
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Rob Stowell,
If your point is that TVNZ can, with the flick of a legislative switch, be turned back into a PBS, I’m just not convinced. As Keir’s pointed out, it’s been a political football for too long. No-one’s benefited. And a public broadcaster isn’t just a commercial broadcaster with a different remit. It needs a public broadcasting culture, which we’d have to rebuild.
I agree. We saw what happened with the TVNZ Charter, and 6 and 7 were always a slightly uncomfortable fit with the rest of the organisation -- although the people we worked with directly (including Oliver, who has posted upthread) were great. A key problem, I think, was that every viewer we lured over to the public broadcasting content was a viewer lost to the commercial channels. There's an innate conflict there.
I'd be happy with selling the company and using the proceeds to establish a BBC/ABC-type public broadcaster. The problem would be how much it fetched, which might not be a lot. Rights would be interesting too. TVNZ really doesn't want to keep operating the TVNZ Archive, but it sure as hell wants to be able to keep programming the Heartland channel with vintage TV.
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Sam Hayes' extended Lorde interview for 3rd Degree.
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Hilary Stace,
The importance of strengthening/rebuilding quality public free to air broadcasting was specifically mentioned by Grant Robertson in the recent leadership contest, but not sure how influential that view will be under the new lineup, as I think he and Clare Curran were the main proponents. .
I'd be surprised if they backed off the public broadcasting policy. They should sell it to voters over 50 as a policy in their interests.
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
But retains no interest in it’s longevity (I know remit – but that’s where the job-half-done bit comes in…)
Much gets lost behind paywalls (Heartland TV), some gets to NZ on Film, but where does the rest go?That would be NZ On Screen :-)
The programmes remain the property of the producers, although NZ On Air gets to claw back some of the funding if, for example, they sell overseas. What was discovered with NZOS is that some of the older contracts were a mess: rights were unclear or some actors had prohibitively high residuals written into their contracts. Some producers didn't realise what rights they owned. The two staff who handle clearances do amazing work, but it helps that it's a non-commercial, public-good use.
The government smoothed the way for TVNZ to get programmes for Heartland in the same amendment bill that abolished the Charter.
Top Shelf Productions does own both Media7 and Media3, and has its own on-demand platform via Choice TV. We will have a think about what best to do with the archive.