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The man has some skills but decidedly went for the bucks at some stage.
But I'm guessing he had to share (some of) the wealth on this one:
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OK, am I the only person who does this: Channel surfs between One and Three for the first ten minutes or so, then turns the television off?
Well, I never quite turned it off, but with PIP (Picture-in-picture) I would watch the news, skipping between channels as the stories that interested me came up. I can't fathom why some ppl hate PIP - it's a great way to NOT sit thru ads. You can switch over to C4 and watch a clip, while the ads are on, and then return to your show. Mind you, all channels now seem to have synchronised ad breaks now, which cancels that out. Which is why I got a ...
I had the same HDDVR as my parents have, I'd watch the news in 1.3x the speed
Yup. Record the news and start watching when you like (even while still recording!) and skip past all the inane stuff. Means you can watch 40 minutes of news (who cares about sport and weather?) in 20 minutes. Watching at 1.3 speed is fun for a while, but then it gets a bit much. Probably good for elderly parents who need to keep their faculties in shape : )
Essentially sitting through a 6pm television news hour is an incredibly inefficient and tedious way to get the day's news. Too much filler - soft stories and advertising.
Yup - see above.
A TVNZ executive actually told me this year that the focus in news was shifting to facts, rather than the person delivering them.
Which explains why the 6pm newsreaders won't be reading the new 4.30pm half-hour bulletin? Seriously? Or is it because Dallow & Petrie saw no reason (contractually) to do 'extra' duties.
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I stood behind the guy [Grooverider] and got to watch what he was doing. yes he was playing a lot of his own recordings (I think) which is fine, and he was hunching over his decks and impressing the crowds, but being technically savvy I could tell when he was actually doing something and when he was making movements to look like he was doing something. it was mostly the latter, and fair enough to I suppose, its a bit boring to watch a guy put on a disc and stand with his arms folded for 5 mins while he waits for the disc to finish, but a lot of the 'show' which was impressing the punters ("loved it when he dropped the bass in there", um, that was on the record he was playing, he did it in the studio 6 months earlier, not live) was in the audiences imagination.
SNAP!!
I saw Fatboy Slim do the very same thing.
So __that's why they play all those white labels?!__
BTW - most rap acts perform to beats pre-recorded with their own vocal tracks. Not quite lip-synching, since they do rap live over their own vocal tracks.
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This fiasco damaged poor Susan's reputation ... and, I think, was a big part in her sad decision to quit a year later, exhausted and discouraged.
oh, so it had nothing to do with those OMIGOD!! rumours I heard about her then?
The likes of John Barnett -- whose company has done incredibly well for TVNZ -- are welcome back in the building, and seem comfortable being there.
You mean, since Tony Holden left the building? Let us not forget that TVNZ used to own South Pacific Pictures, before selling it to Barnett. Who then JV'ed it with All3Media, presumably recouping his investment. (But let's not deny the huge growth the company delivered since privatisation)
The wholesale loss of staff from Breakfast to TV3's forthcoming Sunrise has been fairly bizarre, but it would be wise to wait and see whether TV3 can actually turn a dollar out of a shared break TV audience, which was small enough anyway, before declaring a disaster.
And when are TV3 going to start plugging Sunrise? Do they really think that kiwis are lemmings and will blindly switch on 3 after the RWC is over? I woulda thought the RWC would have been a great time to launch their new breakfast show, not immediately after.
I've been horrified by news coverage of APEC
The most insightful coverage I got at the weekend was an accidental viewing of AL Jazerra on Triangle. Amongst other things they had a great graphic highlighting how APEC has never actually acheived anything since its inception. All 'declarations' are non-binding and lo! no-one has actually done what they said they'd do. You have to wonder what's the point of being a member, and whether it's worth the millions to participate.
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Excellent!!
Kudos to the editor. I liked the shot of the leaping whale at the point of "Ao-tea-roa" - not quite a long white cloud, but apt. -
I watched Supersize Me on C4 the other night and all I could think was "mmmmmm, Big Mac". I haven't had one in MONTHS!!
And now it's lunchtime and again I'm thinking "mmmmmm, Big Mac"
Save me Jeremy, save me NOW!
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The reporting yesterday, in both print and TV media, was frankly pathetic.
But in all fairness, they do an excellent job the other 364 days of the year. Maybe they ate the shrimp the night before?
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I'm not opposed to Nuclear Power per se. But why not make it a condition that the countries that sell the uranium have to take back the nuclear waste? That might solve part of the problem.
The Aussies could build a new Ayers Rock ....
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funny what you can overhear in a cafe whilst you're trying to mind your own business ... why, only this morning:
some people were having a very serious discussion about rebranding a TV channel. Which of the five 'free' channels you ask? Well, that wouldn't be fair. But the channel person was telling the branding experts they were open to anything. Maybe they go back to the days when they spent $250k on 'branding' in TV Guide? Maybe they run a brand campaign that's not about the shows?
Maybe PAS readers could come up with some ideas on how to brand a TV channel??
Something warm and fuzzy, perhaps involving some of those highly paid TV frontpersons turning up to a backyard barbie in a working-class part of town, wearing an old t-shirt and carrying a dozen red, with children splashing around in an old-school above-ground para pool, with a TV playing in the background with some great Kiwi sporting triumph underway, all in slo-mo ... f#ck, yes, almost forgot: must have kiwi music as soundtrack, y'know that one that everyone knows and loves, but hasn't heard in a while, but when they hear it their eyes light up ...
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me hate rugby
me never get over 1981 Springbok Tour
me still fascinated how many ardent '81 protestors did
me should just take blue pill and wave All Black flag
rah rah Go Kiwi!
"__hate the playa, not the game__" ???