Posts by Damian Christie
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Do the papers charge to carry the listings, though?
In some cases I believe it's the other way around - i.e papers are charged for publishing the listings. But certainly not with TVNZ 7. It's pretty complex and I don't really want to get into it, but I think there's a link between the two things - i.e. having to pay on one hand, so then being less willing to publish the other for free. Not that I've used a paper or magazine for years to find listings...
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Jackie Clark,
After all, she’s a great head teacher, and a fantastic team member, so why would I want to hurt her feelings
Fair enough. As long as you wouldn't take the same approach with a student.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to 3410,
So, basically, you do care. ;)
Yeah, basically. :) But in context. I don't care more than I care about a lot of things.
@Sacha - I'm not trying to be pedantic, but I guess that depends on what 'the message' is. I just made a very similar point to yours on a facebook discussion (Simon Bridges vs Tiki Taane, someone tried to say that the Tiki supporters had poor grammar, and therefore... something). I think we probably agree about the relative importance of the message vs the grammar/spelling - as long as we agree that the latter has some importance...
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For the record, I don't care that much either, I just needed a pithy third point. :)
I do find people (the editorial in Perigo's first show is a great example - teachers who fail to impart such knowledge are 'child molesters' - good grief) banging on about it a bit much. And it shouldn't be used to counter someone's argument per se, that's as bad as an ad homenim attack, really. But I don't agree (paraphrasing @Sacha, say) that understanding the communication is all that matters. That is a bit of a slippery slope, and I'd hate to lose all those lovely distinctions that make our language beautiful. If we don't value them, they don't get passed on or picked up, and soon they disappear completely. Evolution is great, devolution ain't.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Islander,
@Islander - I'm in exactly the same boat as you in terms of twitter. Don't need it. Tried it, meh. Supposedly interesting people (Stephen Fry) reduced to the extremely mundane ("tired now, laptop out of batteries, going to bed" etc). And if I ever really need to know of a natural/unnatural disaster ten minutes quicker than it's on TV or radio, I'll probably feel it... that also assumes that one checks one's Twitter every few minutes, which is a scary prospect for someone as www.addicted.com as me.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to jessica scott,
Lindsay Perigo is hilarious. My favourite bit was when he called teachers ‘child molesters of the mind’. Christmas dinner with him must be lots of fun
Ha! I was actually going to quote that bit as well. I think I may have actually spent a Xmas dinner with Linds, back in the day, or if not, we definitely shared a few meals. They were fun, to be honest, although these days I imagine it's a bit more like the Mad Hatter's Tea Party, which would still be fun, just in a more 'laugh at' way.
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Hate to tell you this Geoff, but there ain’t no 55+ (at least not made available to us internally at TVNZ). The lists are:
05+
5+ Akld Urban
18-49 Akld Urban
25-54 Akld Urban
05-14
All 15-24
15-29
18-39
18-49
All 18-54
25-39
25-54
All 30-59
HHS w/kids 0-9
Main Shopper with kids 0-14 in Home
HHS 20-54
Main Shopper 25-54
Maori and Pacific People
Have SKY Decoder
Sky 18-49And so you really only fit in the 5+ category. Which makes your argument even more poignant! But seriously, what does an 18 year old have in common with a 49 year old? Other than DNA, if one is the other one’s parent…
(just spotted the 30-59 but point stands)
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Thanks Geoff. And yes, I have issues with ratings of all shapes and sizes (the idea, for instance, that every single copy of the Herald gets passed on four times or whatever they say it is to create a 'readership' figure as opposed to a sales figure. I think however that with the biggest prime-time shows, in the 5+ category, they are about as accurate as can be.
There might be a large number of people with peoplemeters 'rusted' to TV ONE, but they represent an even bigger number at home doing just that - if there's an obvious skew in that biggest of all sample sizes (5+) then I doubt the various channels would buy into it. The problem I have is when it gets whittled down to how many Auckland-based 18-39 year olds were watching at which particular minute, and what editorial (as opposed to advertising) decisions should be made as a result.
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Indeed Raymond, indeed. I'm thinking next time instead of Westfield St Lukes (definitely a hell hole, and you should try and get a park on the weekend) I'll pop across to Sydders for the weekend ;)
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Late to this one too - been out filming the demise of public service TV.
I mean who’s to say we can’t have a few good but marginally less profitable programmes in the schedule and make up for it with, I don’t know, Jersey Shore?
I think that could work great in theory, but a) you need someone at the top who's all about that, rather than someone who really just wants to do what the owner tells them to do ("maximise profit, return big dividend") and b) it assumes it's easy just to make a bit more money. Having been at TVNZ during a continual series of cutbacks, lay-offs and restructuring these past 7 years, I can only assume it's not :)