Didnt i read somewhere x was actuality rating higher than today ever did??
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They’ve played ads for quite a while now in the metro markets. Maybe 6 months after they launched - well at least in Wellington and Auckland.
Seems to be their experimental station - they were the first to use radiotext for ads as well. Since then every now and then I see the ‘NOVAS glass - show us your crack!’ pop up on George and Mai (and probably other MW stations too).
Are they your usual radio ads or voiced by the CX voiceover guy?
Probably not too much of an audience.
In any case, I don’t mind hearing ads on Channel X - as long as they’re not too frequent (or too many per break). Coast got it right when they started with 2 ads pre break but I don’t know how many they play now.
As to this Canadian far-right(?) billionaire maybe buying up NZME - yikes 
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Does that indicate he wants to make a fresh start at nzme and review some of the brands at nzme or do we expect business as usual
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