Hard News: Changes and appointments
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I don't really care about where RNZ plus TVNZ7 is based, if that were to happen, but I do care about 1) the loss of public service broadcasting culture which RNZ has and which has disappeared from TVNZ and 2) the ghettoising of TVNZ's public service media. I also don't like moves that prepare TVNZ for sale, or more of the restructuring mentality that's tossed TVNZ around from one thing to the next over the past 20 years or so. There's more to this than just the media gossip about who's losing their office.
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Friday tune, check out the lovely Max Cooper remix of Hot Chip's "I Feel Better".
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I'm looking at you, Girl Talk
You're such a hater, Russell.
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Small point - the Boiler Room is no more. Sold and demolished...
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Combining RNZ with TVNZ would leave Mediawatch with nothing to complain about.
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Small point - the Boiler Room is no more. Sold and demolished..
Well, yes. That's why I said "whatever takes the place of the Boiler Room next year " :-)
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Personally, I feel RadioNZ (with one or two minor exceptions) has maintained a consistent quality of news and analysis over the years, whereas TVNZ has steadily declined. If, as an earlier post suggested, this is a precursor to privatisation, then we will all be the losers. One only has to listen to other radio stations to understand to ghastliness of what we will be in for. Can you imagine a time when our only access to public radio debate will be in the hands of such intellectual titans as Holmes, Laws, Smith, Woodham, et al? The dumbing down of NZ will then be almost complete. RadioNZ would rate as one of the best radio stations in the world, despite it's occasional oddities, but they are our oddities and we love it regardless. It, together with the Concert programme, is an oasis of sanity in a crass, commercial world.
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I will be at Media 7 on Wednesday with a vanload of my students. Might have to forewarn them about that popular Mr Haywood ;-)
I agree with Donald's comments re the ghettoising of TVNZ digital channels. As much as I treasure TVNZ 6 & 7, I am continuously disappointed by the large number of folk who don't watch them/can't receive them/don't know about them.
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'The Politics of Comedy'
well it is good to get away from
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If RNZ & TVNZ6&7 absolutely must merge, then please let it be RadioNZ with Pictures, not TV1&2 with Sound.
If we can get it right, we'll have a reincarnated NZBC. But if we get it wrong, well, Max Headroom has done the explaining for us.
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TV1&2 already have sound. It's half the problem.
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As much as I treasure TVNZ 6 & 7, I am continuously disappointed by the large number of folk who don't watch them/can't receive them/don't know about them.
TVNZ 6 ratings got a boost to over 1m a month when Sky TV moved it to channel 016. TVNZ remained the same at a low level on channel 097. Only thinking people go above the Sky music channels, obviously.
I'm pretty cool with a RNZ/TVNZ merger, if it means RNZ journalists get the resources and TVNZ journalists get the brainpower. A mini-BBC, as it were. -
And the next night, Wednesday,we're recording an extended Media7 special for TVNZ's Spotlight on Science and Technology. Our theme is "communicating science", and to that end I'll be talking to Peter Griffin of the Science Media Centre, science journalist Alan Samson, Radio NZ science producer Phil Smith, Otago University's Rebecca McLeod (the McDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year in 2008) – and some chap called Haywood from Christchurch, who seems quite popular.
Haywood?
WTF does he know?
He's a scientist.
Don't you realise they are the sort of people you should NEVER ask about science. Sheesh. They might communicate to you what real data shows us instead of something you hold a death grip belief in.
Verryyy dangerous place to go that.
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Dr Luke Goode
If that isn't the best possible name for a French cosmetic surgeon, I don't know what is.
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Is it Friday already? Anyway, for a superstitious day...
Have a good one.Edit: Embedding disabled, sorry.
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As much as I treasure TVNZ 6 & 7, I am continuously disappointed by the large number of folk who don't watch them/can't receive them/don't know about them.
Getting TVNZ7 has been great (though I wish the paper ran listings for it) - I am enjoying The Wonders of the Solar System on Tuesday nights - it should be available to a wider audience, especially kids...
[warning: contains the eff word n stuff]no but seriously here's the real trailer:
edit: hope you can see this, it isn't showing up on this old beast
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. . .I do care about 1) the loss of public service broadcasting culture which RNZ has and which has disappeared from TVNZ and 2) the ghettoising of TVNZ's public service media. I also don't like moves that prepare TVNZ for sale, or more of the restructuring mentality that's tossed TVNZ around from one thing to the next over the past 20 years or so.
Hopefully you're doing your bit by encouraging your students to engage with these issues. Even more hopefully you department is now providing something more than than the godawful level of feedback on assignments than was the case back in that dismal year when COMS introduced Turnitin at Canterbury, and all undergraduate work was automatically run through the mill, whether or not plagiarism was suspected. As a means of semi-automating the marking process it probably suited the department fine. In terms of serving the needs of students it was a disaster. TVNZ isn't the only organisation to have experienced major quality issues.
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They're going to kill Radio New Zealand.
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They're going to kill Radio New Zealand.
God I hope not..it was the only glimmer of radio hope when I was back in NZ last month. Aside from a show here and there, the rest was either dire or such low power that you could only get it on a small strip of Ponsonsby Rd.
What happened?
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I am rather worried that they will inadvertently ruin it. No previous reform of public broadcasting in NZ seems to have worked to a positive endpoint, why would this?
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What does Drinnan mean by "a racier approach"? More tabloidism?
The publisher is unveiling a major makeover of the Weekend Herald tomorrow and has repositioned the daily Herald - taking a racier approach to front-page editorial values.
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Could be a Daily Telegraph style approach, where they up the level of photos of pretty woman on every page.
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God I hope not..it was the only glimmer of radio hope when I was back in NZ last month. Aside from a show here and there, the rest was either dire or such low power that you could only get it on a small strip of Ponsonsby Rd.
What happened?
I don't mean literally. The masthead will still be there, in some form.
I have every fear that the integrity of RNZ will be lost in the changes - that it will be shoehorned into management and content structures that are superficially compatible, but end up sucking the life out of it. I do admit my last comment was a touch dramatic, but as Ben points out, what confidence should we have?
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The masthead will still be there, in some form.
But it may not mean much.
The ABC is still more or less intact as a public service broadcaster, despite John Howard's best efforts. From the moment he was elected in '96 the attacks began. Boards were stacked, and token hard-right commentators inserted into existing shows to provide 'balance'. Interestingly enough they only tried that on radio, possibly because the untelegenic nature of some of the tedious old drunks (literally) that were mustered for radio would have seriously spooked the viewing audience.Anyway it didn't work, largely because Australia has sufficient critical mass, and the multiple levels of government, to resist the crash-through approach. Sadly NZ doesn't. We got the Douglas "reforms" in the 80s, they got Hawke's social contract with the unions. The agenda has always been to pull up the ladders once the bastards have achieved their ends. Sadly, horribly, it could happen here.
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I don't mean literally.
Yep, I understood that.
But it may not mean much.
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