Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: All right, then – take me to Rio, in reply to dave stewart,
NZ pay TV offers less Olympics coverage than is available on free TV in the other English speaking countries we like to compare ourselves to (UK, Australia, US, Canada).
Hmmm. Not sure about that. In Australia, TV coverage will be on three channels. Sky is offering nine channels + Prime. And Australian viewers are seriously pissed off with the way it's started:
Bashing Australia’s Olympic TV coverage is an unofficial Olympic sport, and Channel 7 copped a pasting today as the network opted to air Sunrise — albeit “Sunrise in Rio” — on its main channel as live sport played out in the host city.
Ryan Phelan and Samantha Armytage anchored proceedings from Seven’s Olympics studio at Martin Place — roughly 13,500km from Rio — as gymnastics and tennis played out live in Rio, broadcast on 7TWO and 7mate.
But on the main channel viewers got awkward live crosses to Rio with off-putting time delays, Phelan interjecting with “breaking news” of the latest medal win, and a prerecorded Blake Lively interview for her upcoming film.<
Coverage on NZ free TV is little more than a summary of the results of NZ competitors.
Nah, there's quite a lot on through the day.
Legal NZ streaming/on demand options are only marginally better – poor coverage for free options, with terrible performance and only limited coverage on paid options.
Now here you really do have a good point. Sky's Olympic streaming literally does not work at present. In a web browser, that is. I gather the apps are fine.
And the Aussies really have it down with streaming:
All of Seven's live broadcasts will be streamed online for free – via its website, the iOS/Android mobile app and the PLUS7 app on Telstra TV and the 4th-gen Apple TV. So there's no need for Australians to sneak into foreign streaming services or tap into dodgy online feeds in order to watch the Olympics live when they're away from their television. Most impressive, you can tell the app which country you support to tweak your feed.
During the London games, Foxtel offered its eight Olympic channels streamed live via its tablet app – but you couldn't just sign up for two weeks, you had to pay for a full Foxtel subscription with the sports package.
This year keen sports fans can pay $20 for the premium version of Seven's streaming service which grants you access to 36 live channels with more than 3000 hours of coverage, along with catch up and replay on demand (Telstra mobile customers can access it for free). UPDATE: The premium service is only available via the website and mobile apps, not the Apple TV/Telstra TV streaming boxes.
The fact that Seven is charging for this service doesn't sit well with some people, considering that the games are supposed to be on "free"-to-air television, but I think it's a pretty good deal.
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Hard News: All right, then – take me to Rio, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Given how conservative NZ sport is about sexuality, it’s just lovely that Robbie and Katie are proudly representing their country, hopefully making the path a little smoother for other LGBT athletes.
Tautoko that.
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Hard News: All right, then – take me to Rio, in reply to Chopper,
I dunno. I kind of agree that if an athlete has been found guilty of doping, then they shouldn’t be at the Olympics.
Fair point. And now the Aussie is getting death threats from Chinese fans.
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Meanwhile, Sky's Olympic coverage website – launched two days late – is a real shambles.
It proved literally impossible to access the women's Sevens live coverage via Sky's "live coverage" page. I was only able to get it by going back out and through Sky Go. But that only worked because the game was on Pop-Up 1. Only Pop-Ups 1 and 2 are accessible via the Sky Go page. Hopeless.
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Hard News: All right, then – take me to Rio, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I’ve always viewed diving as part of football so a really good acting performance gets rewarded as much as the athleticism. Much like rhythmic gymnastics.
Which is really the only viable explanation for the referee whistling not only a foul, but a red card. That was bonkers.
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Hard News: All right, then – take me to Rio, in reply to Shaun Lott,
But only on Sky, right?
No, on Prime too, which Sky has finally upgraded to HD.
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Hard News: All right, then – take me to Rio, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Wandered through the channels looking for Rio for a while before twigging: ah, Sky. Oh well. No Olympics for most of NZ.
Most of Prime's schedule for the two weeks is Olympic coverage, so there's plenty to watch free-to-air.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Just William, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
or their earlier (original?) premises a bit further out of town at the start of Mt Eden Road (end of Symonds street) in the ’80s… (IIRC)
Yes, in the block of shops right at the top of Mt Eden Road.
…the ownership may have changed slightly at times but the logo remained the same (I think it is a Chris Mousdale design originally).
That's actually a Stefan Morris joint, created in the Rip It Up office.
And I'm so glad you mentioned it, because it gives me another chance to claim my sole design fame. Stefan had already come up with the Wurlitzer arch for the words "Real Groovy" and was wondering what to do with the "Records" part. I suggested it needed something simple like a classic cinema sign grid. And thus it came to pass.
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Speaker: Colouring Girl, in reply to Peter Alsop,
The title in the book changed for another reason to ‘One of the Girls’, which has a double meaning in terms of Clyde Stewart, Mr-Hand-Colouring-New-Zealand, being referred to in one of my interviews as ‘one of the girls’.
Which is really interesting. It implicitly acknowledges that this was a women's craft, women were the experts. And yet this all fell out of history, while the narratives of the New Zealand canon were established in lore.
That same might be said of the commercial art books you've published, Peter. It's the reason I'll always want to support what you do.
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Speaker: Colouring Girl, in reply to Peter Alsop,
Lucy, thx for constructively raising this concern (without an anti-Kevin-Roberts bite!) – I can understand your view. I thought with the scene-setting around ‘girls’, the context for the piece was clear but, given your fair feedback, I hope Russell will be so kind as to add some quote marks throughout. Thx Lucy.
Will do. I wondered about the headline at first glance too, and then realised the context when I read the text.
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