Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Media Media Media, in reply to Stephen R,
If a lot of the point of the ratings is to be able to price advertising, then including RadioNZ doesn’t help them since RadioNZ doesn’t sell advertising.
Being able to say “Most listened to station-that-will-take-your-advertising-dollars” is less attractive than being able to say “most listened to station”.
Indeed. And under the agreement they even get to state their station shares as if RNZ doesn't exist.
From a RadioNZ point of view, being able to get someone to give them some numbers so they can track it over time is worth something and I don’t know that they care about being able to brag to advertisers; I’d bet that being able to say to the Gummint that they have better listener numbers than the commercial stations is useful come time to argue about budgets.
Exactly – although I don't hold any hope whatsoever of RNZ's budget being unfrozen without a change of government. Even though it has been proving itself as a part of NZ's civil defence infrastructure, etc.
But it has firmly shut down a very common criticism from the right – that it was too scared to participate in the "real" ratings. Actually, it has always had a substantial audience, and it nicely timed its re-entry to the ratings as that audience was growing.
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Hard News: Media Media Media, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Russell: re the Patron thing. I think we are still contributing a regular auto payment to PA but should we shift it to this new option?
Yes, please do. And thanks!
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This also happened last night – the awesome Harkanwal Singh gave an Ihaka lecture about data journalism. The talking starts at 11:20.
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Christmas Day at Coyle Park, Point Chevalier.
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Dominik Nola and Murray Cammick at a party this summer, with Alan Perrott being Nigel-no-mates in the background.
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This was a good day. The Women's March in Albert Park.
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The first fig harvest, a signal that summer is on its way out.
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Point Chev beach.
December 21.
January 1.
January 31.
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Hard News: What the wastewater tells us…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Doesn’t it say that they didn’t use the choppers this time for the 1300 plant haul?
It does.
But man, that's still 30 officers who could have been doing something else, 50 site visits and who-knows-how-much paperwork time to get it all to court. All in the service of making meth look safer and easier to trade in than weed.
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Hard News: What the wastewater tells us…, in reply to BenWilson,
Oh – look at that. Tasman police put down the flying toys this summer.
A 75 per cent drop in cannabis plants recovered from the annual top of the south and the West Coast drug operation followed a police decision not to use helicopters this year.
Police said on Monday they had seized and destroyed 2200 cannabis plants this year from the two regions, 1300 from the Coast and 900 from the top of the south.
That compares to a total of around 9000 plants (6000 in the top of the south, 3000 from the Coast) last year when police used military helicopters in the operation.
In 2015 an estimated 4000 plants were recovered across the Tasman police district, also using helicopters.
Tasman District Commander Superintendent Mike Johnson said a decision was made to complete this year's operation using a "targeted, focused deployment model that did not include an aerial recovery phase".
"Police makes operational decisions every day on the best use of resources on a case-by-case basis," Johnson said.
"Police use a variety of tools and tactics to detect and recover cannabis at all times not just during the annual cannabis recovery operation. In some situations helicopters are used, but this is not necessarily appropriate in all circumstances."
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