I would suspect his primary interest is the NZ Herald at this point
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Yeah, I suspect that too.
I think shareholders will be disappointed that the Herald’s value declined in the latest financials (from Media Insider: A $24m non-cash impairment of intangible assets such as mastheads and brand names for publications). It’s possible they still see value in some of those traditional assets?
Fair enough…i would have thought he would have thought he would have looked at the whole operations
Well, obviously he is to an extent, but this very much a power move to take over the Herald and their editorial stance.
Quite a big story on RNZ Mediawatch about it this morning. This guy is not being very clear with his plans so it seems (to me) that it’s a bit up-in-the-air as to what he might actually do if he does succeed.
As an aside, I thought the guy was Trump-adoring cartoonist Scott Adams for a second when I saw his pic, then took a closer look. Maybe it’s his long-lost twin? 
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Feels like that look didn’t last long at all
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Did a monitor of the commercial stations’ top of hour news (intros/stagers/etc) this morning. Here’s the mixdown:
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Interesting listening, thanks for this. The Hauraki one must be fairly new, have they finally retired their recycled ZM weather sting?
Also I vote The Breeze as having the worst news sting out of the lot, sounds like something from another era.
Haha the old ZM Newsbeat weather sting is still in use! (on Hauraki)
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I just found out last week that Coast introduced overnight news on Saturdays and Sundays.
I’m quite bummed out about that as it means less music and more talk 
I like triple play weekends. Really enjoyed them when Magic used to run them in the long weekends about 6-7 years ago now.
I dont see the point of overnight news. Or even news on the radio at all. Surely there should be just bulletins at 6am, 12pm and 6pm, and if there is anything major there is a special news break. That’s the problem with radio, its still stuck in a world of 15-20 years ago.
The sound do the triple play weekend every weekend now it used to be maybe once a month or 6 weeks but is now a regular slot
Agree…most people get their news online so by the time its on the radio its old news anyway i notice gold dont do news after the breakfast show
Is there a sponsor’s ad before the news bulletins? Selling that space could be the reason why they’ve done it.
Overnight news might have a business case if it’s included in the station’s news package, but apart from shift workers I agree - I don’t imagine there are millions of people tuning in at 3 in the morning to catch the latest news.
An exception to the rule might be something like Radio New Zealand, especially in Civil Defence situations, etc.
Music stations carry it especially in breakfast as it does form a large part of what listeners tell them they want - even those listening to younger skewing music stations especially at breakfast. Plus it also points a marker to listeners (8am news is when I need to be out the door for work etc).
News and talk stations it’s fairly obvious why there is 24 hour news bulletins - but they have adapted over time. ZB until about 12 years ago had much longer bulletins (The 15-minute Report at 7am etc) - now it’s about six minutes or so.
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In the days before Newstalk ZB and Classic Hits (now The Hits), RNZ’s Community Network had longer bulletins of news, sport, business and weather information like The World at Six (6am), The World at Seven (7am), The World at Noon and The World at Five (5pm).
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RNZ to shut down 1116 AM in Nelson.
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