Posts by peter mclennan
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I read the comments on Kiwblog after David Farrar posted this and guess what? You lot are every bit as bitter and mean spirited as their commenters. Impressed with yourselves? You should be!
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Vicki Anderson of The Press on NZOA, worth a read...
"Of the 56 acts to receive funding in New Zealand on Air's March round, only one (Salmonella Dub) was based in the South Island. That is simply ridiculous. Not meaning to sound "regionalist" or anything (NZ On Air are always accusing me of this) but, by laws of averages alone, there should be more than one. South Islanders pay taxes too. "
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/entertainment/christchurch-music/3641693/Sounds-like-us?
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"Yep -- that's the key point Dubber and I made in the 2007 paper."
So, this change has been coming for nearly a decade that they still havent done zip to adjust? They can have the status quo, cos in a few years, it won't be worth squat. Leave the industry fighting over crumbs.....
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Mark Kneebone on Russell and Andrew's "Public broadcasting in the digital age" document... from Real Groove iv transcript...
"NZ On Air know they have to do some changes. There was a report done by Russell Brown and Andrew Dubber that was done on the future of online promotion and it’s relevance to NZ On Air funding that also covered TV. It’s kicking around somewhere.
"Personally, I didn’t actually agree with about half of what they wrote. I thought they missed the mark, and to be fair, it was written a few years ago, so shit’s changed again. It’s also very funny that when NZ On Air put it out, the first paragraph was 'This does not represent the viewpoint of NZ On Air'. They recommended some pretty drastic changes – That online was the future, and they were right. But they were talking about tools and mechanism that are now outdated. And fair enough, they wrote it in 2007..." -
The other big point Duncan makes its that NZ On Air's mandate is unchanged since 2000 - now think how much the broadcast environment has changed and evolved since then. Radio is way way down on people's methods for discovering new music.
And the argument over NZ On Air funding artists for overseas development (esp when they fund commercially driven product at home, which has no export potential, lets face it) - Russell theres a fantastic article in the Feb/March NZ Musician magazine you should read, looking at the Caddick Report on NZOA's Phase 5 scheme. The article also highlights two labels that got $500k in funding each to establish an offshore beach head. Seen any results from that yet?
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Agree w Robyn - I recall writing a story for Pavement on the first MTV Real World series prior to it screening here, prob 93 or 94. Flatmates was totally a derivative of Real World.
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Hi Russell, I wrote about this on the c42 royalties issue....
http://dubdotdash.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-music-channel-on-freeview.html
also see The Corner blog, which wuotes official email on c42 that confirms "there will be no direct public performance royalties payable to content owners as attributable to play on C42."
From NZH's Drinnan column today... "Chris Hocquard said he had concerns about the terms of the deal which implies airplay for music had a promotional value"
Its certainly an interesting idea.
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"It's a quirk of the modern media world that we increasingly get our information from people who don't know anything."
what, you mean like NZ Herald journalists who get people's names wrong repeatedly, like Pauley Fuemana (sic)?
Took me three days of hassling to get the Herald to correct it (tried their Twitter address repeatedly, no response at all - social media FAIL), and then someone pointed me to another one... sigh....
http://dubdotdash.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-on-pauly-fuemana-yesterday-sunday.html
Clearly, spelling someone's name correctly is no longer a priority for the NZ Herald. And Pauly isn't around to complain about it.
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New Metro redesign - fonts by NZ font designer Kris Sowersby. Awesome!!!!
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say what? 230pm? stink