Posts by Brendan Smyth
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From Simon Grigg's post ...
... I'd love to see that 20% NZ Airplay figure broken down into formats and stations
Can't do station-by-station. That is information that we are not privy to. But format-by-format ... in the March 2008 quarter (the latest quarter) -
* Pop - 13.11%
* Rock - 26.05%
* Urban - 13.01%
* Adult Contemporary - 19.70%
* Hot A/C - 16.85%
* Easy - 15.33%* Overall - 19.90%
The peak in the March quarter was 21.04% (overall) and Rock radio as a format peaked at 30.25%.
In the March quarter, all but one format was up on the previous quarter and the overall was up from 18.88% to 19.90%.
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... before you go grabbing the entire credit for their (The Brunettes, The Ruby Suns, etc) life's work
Oh ... I don't claim credit for their life's work. It's just a statement of fact.
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after polling commercial radio
No ... I'm saying (in my original too long post) that we don't poll commercial radio when we are tracklisting the discs.
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... who are you and your team again. you've described yourself as a glorified bean counter ... who's got the sociology and philosophy degree there
Now I'm confused. You're saying we are not doing our job by not exercising judgement and when I say we do, you tell me off again?
The fact is that NZ On Air has the discretion under the Act to interpret and implement. That is our job.
I'm not a bean-counter. Never have been. Hopeless at accountancy.
Okay ... I will fess up ... it's me who has got the Philosophy degree.
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... I find that hard to believe. There were great tracks on indie hit discs that commercial radio would never have picked. Unless you mean you consulted b net programmers as well, who I have no issue with. Please elaborate on who actually did pick the indie hit disc tracks and the more alternative tracks?
Yes ... you're right. We got the student radio PDs to pick the Indie Hit Disc songs and commercial radio PDs to pick the Kiwi Hit Disc. That was when we considered the Kiwi to be a "mainstream" disc and Indie to be an "alt" disc. But we abandoned that approach a few years back and merged the more alt (which would have been Indie tracks) with the mainstream (what would have been Kiwi-only tracks) into one monthly Kiwi Hit Disc instead of six two-monthly Kiwis and Indies.
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you don't normally if ever mention any other factors either
Unfair ... I do ... !
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have you got that link please
Go to www.radioscope.co.nz and go to Charts and then NZ40 Airplay.
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what's the split in terms of resources devoted to each sector ... you said $800000 for national/bnet?
No ... the $800,000 is what we currently spend on the New Zealand music work of the b.nets and specialist radio shows on Kiwi. It doesn't include Radio New Zealand which is something like $28 million and access radio which is something like $2 million (not all of which can be attributed to playing New Zealand music, admittedly).
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I notice you avoided my question on the actual part nz on air played in the increase (of New Zealand music on the radio)
I have never said anywhere that NZ On Air can claim all the credit. That would be arrogant and well ... plain wrong. The transformation from 2% - 20% is the result of many things - not the least of which, great songs by great artists - and NZ On Air is just one of those things.
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are you talking top 40 across all music or top 40 nz songs on nz radio?
The latter. The 40 most-played New Zealand songs on New Zealand radio.