Since his departure from RNZ, he had worked at NBR and The Platform before switching to Reality Check Radio (RCR).
Wouldnât surprise me if it outlasts The Platform. Does seem like they have a lot more $$ to spend on marketing etc & if you go by the platform comments section when Plunket calls the likes of Liz Gunn something not very nice you would think this new station would be taking about 98% of his audience lol
Sorry, I should clarify that - I mean while he was at RNZ (and even before, I remember hearing him reading the news in the 90s for them). After Trump came to power, I think he started to get wrapped up in his nonsense and it all went downhill from there. A pretty sad fall from grace.
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The backer of The Platform has money to burn, so I think itâll be around for a while yet (as per the link posted earlier):
Having said that, I have no idea how much money Voices for Freedom currently have in their account or are taking in - they donât seem to want to release that kind of information.
Same people funding QAnon, Trump, etc and so on. They want to import US style culture wars into this country.
âŚwhich is pretty depressing, IMO - I donât know anyone who wants that bs here, apart from this lot.
Anyway I listened to about a minute of this new thing just after 7 when it was meant to be starting, apparently itâs meant to be Paul Brennan at breakfast, but I got a version of William Shatner remaking Common People (by Pulp). Sadly I canât handle too much of William Shatner this early in the morning so stopped the stream.
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Sounds like it will appeal to
All the haters and negative viewpoints and
As mentioned pro trump
I thought we were better than that but
Maybe not
Wowee
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Seems like Today has had a hard time competing against ZB. This does not bode well.
Hate to sound all negative here, but is this a case of him jumping before heâs pushed, or simply realising what may be happening, and is like a rat fleeing a sinking ship?
If not I hope heâs been tempted to something better - heâs quite talented and will be a big loss to Today FM, I would say he was a huge driving force in getting the station up and running in the first place.
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It wouldnât surprise me if heâs completely and utterly burnt out. Setting up a station isnât easy and heâs been on the ground level. You often hear of him pitching in to produce (when thanked by on air talent) and the like as well.
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Anything on record about Mediaworks persisting with Today FM long-term is pretty much dead now with this announcement.
I know he has a good track record at ZB but the audience is also handed to you with that station so a very different scenario when relaunching a poor performing station.
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Will be interesting to see whatâs next.
I wondered if they might bring in someone like Mitch Harris to have one last crack at it
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Sounds like he knew that today fm was always going to struggle no matter what he did
I also not sure he got top level support higher up
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Gurney told Stuff it was ânot a one or three-year project. This is a five, ten, 15-year project and beyondâ
But still canât have been expecting such low numbers - Survey 1 2022 he said âbring on survey 2â - but ratings only declined further each survey last year, the more it decoupled from Magic Talk
âThis survey result is almost all Todayâs predecessor Magic Talk which means itâs not useful this time around. However weâve had fantastic feedback since launching in late March and are excited about the platform weâve built for ratings success in the future. Weâre still in the early stages and looking forward to continuing to work hard to build the brand and our audience in the months and years ahead. Bring on Survey 2!â
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Interesting that his announcement came on the eve of Today FMâs first anniversary of going to air.
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It is debatble whether radio in its current form will still exist in 2037.
The Edge is currently dead air
Aw, great! Is there a technical problem going on?
Shame. Seems like a good guy. If heâs going then thatâs probably it - he is Today FM. Canât see it still existing in its current form in 12 monthsâ time. Radio 2, anyone?