Posts by Nigel Caughey
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Very nice, though no itunes gift cards yet :(.
Really nice how the reviews & ratings carry over from the other stores, kind of makes you feel part of the Apple world really :).
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Hadyn,
"The content is provided via a bidding/tender process"
Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?For news I would have tendered for the prime 18 hours + updates a day ( 3-4 year deal ), open to any NZ based company ( Canwest/TVNZ/Sky/Telecom/Vodafone being the likely candidates ), allowing say 10 minutes of ads/promos an hour & for the other 6 hours opened that up as well, maybe it would not work, but it would be interesting to have C4 news as a 20 minute block, then news update, then Maori news, news update, then Southland TV, news update ..., it would require a protocol to handle major breaking news & content ( ie it has to be news ! ), but it would also open up some fascinating opportunities for the likes of the Tourism Board, Farming, Overseas news providers/Educational Providers to produce/fund weekly segments.
In the end I don't think a new publicly funded channel should by default go to TVNZ, as NZ Onair does not give Doco/Programming funding by default to TVNZ, also I think the model of a single provider is wrong in a world where the content creation tools are so ubiquitous & the differences between TV content vs Web content starting to blur more rapidly now. -
I think the government has a conflicting interests here, a desire for public television, it's own Television station and for good measure NZ Onair & Maori TV.
That's too many pieces in the puzzle if you ask me, I'd prefer.
NZ Onair & Maori TV stay.
TVNZ sold off.
The two new channel's if it's what the goverment wants are funded through NZ Onair & the content is provided via a bidding/tender process & indeed for News I would argue that could be split amoungst multiple providers.
From a technical perspective, I think Freeview is great & what I really like is it opens up the opportunity for far better FTA sports coverage to compete with Sky, for instance F1 could be main race on FTA with Practise/Analysis etc on Digital. Cricket with 2 channels one FTA & one digital version with 1/3 of the screen dedicated to stats, alot of opportunity. -
I'm also all for the Water Front, it makes alot of sense. I currently have a visitor from the UK, who stayed in Auckland for a few days before coming up North & was shall we say less than complimentary about the existing location for the Waterfront stadium, tatty & run down down I believe was the term, a new stadium there would be a great asset & also make a quality link between Queen St & the viaduct the priority it should be.