To put things into perspective, a regular fight night is available to purchase as a pay-per-view event on Sky Arena or Spark Sport PPV.
But tomorrow morning (22 January) at 7am NZDT, the Unleashed fight night in Manchester - featuring former heavyweight champ Joseph Parker v Jack Massey and the main event (Chris Eubank Jr v Liam Smith) - will be televised ‘live and free’ on Three and ThreeNow.
Shambles of a broadcast of the Joseph Parker fight on TV3. They are showing the full undercard but between fights they are showing a long shot of the ring for minutes on end with Stadium FX only or with audio only of interviews and panel discussions. Thought they’re just being sent the wrong feed but it’s been more than an hour now.
Your not the only one here. ThreeNow doesn’t have rights to show the undercards but only the main fight. So they just ended up showing this notice.
I wonder if the rights deal was only just for the fights themselves and nothing more. I fired up my VPN and had a look at the UK Live One-Hour Freeview (Only viewable in UK) and I quickly compared it this morning and you got to see the prerolls/promos to the fights and obviously the video feed commentary team from Sky Sports Boxing UK.
Was very odd - perhaps Three should have anchored it from back home because it was not a great broadcast.
I just wonder how much they paid for it because they are getting no ad revenue from it since it is on a Sunday Morning. I don’t think the people watching the boxing would be very interested to come back on Three for The Block 
Shortland Street returns tomorrow on TVNZ 2. By the looks of the 2022 finale and the promos, the show will be revamped. I feel like the hospital will be closed for good and focus on other locations in Ferndale (e.g. Home and Away). What are your thoughts?
The biggest shake-up Shortland Street has ever had is coming - Stuff.co.nz
I don’t watch it but could the SS ‘staff’ work at other hospitals while the new one is being rebuilt on air. Probably a few storylines they could do there.
I highly dealt that they wouldnt rebuild the hospital set, though its surely set to be a differbt vibe this year
Considering the comments incoming PM Chris Hipkins made today about reigning in ‘non-essential’ projects, is it safe to say that the TVNZ/RNZ merger is dead in the water?
I think it’s a more of a “wait and see” type deal. After all, he was just appointed to the role.
Would be weird, and very disappointing, to back peddle on something that so much work has gone into. Labour have promised broadcasting reform for many years - time to deliver.
I think so.
And it’s probably for the best - there never has been a compelling reason for it to be undertaken by those wanting to do it and those pushing it have a fundamental misunderstanding of how those organisations work in 2023.
They’d be better off putting their effort into NZ On Air, make that the main funding provider for broadcasting. All producers &c go to them, and be able to sell to anyone who has a platform in NZ (including the likes of Netflix, &c.) - this could include TVNZ’s newsroom… then they could then devolve TVNZ in the next 10-15 years as the broadcast audience erodes or even sell it off… who cares if you watch TVNZ News on TV1 or Netflix, right?
It would probably miff some, but would be more robust for the future than consolidating two organisations that didn’t want to be joined in the first place.
I think the idea of having a unified NZ public broadcaster, something like the BBC, was fantastic - but I’m not sure it would ever have worked in practice. RNZ and TVNZ seem to be two very different organisations with two very different ways of working (which seems to be backed up by people in the know - i.e. you @OnAir). Imposing one ethos on the other would never have worked.
I do think the ideas of either RNZ+ or decommercialising TV1 might have been good, or even bringing back TVNZ7! But alas, those ships have probably all sailed…
…and well and truly sunk.
You only need to turn on TVNZ to find a compelling reason. Endless reality dreck like MasterChef, MKR or Celeb Treasure Island. Quite frankly, we need more documantaries and current affairs on TVNZ, not crap programs. People like you have no ambition for broadcasting in this country.
No other country has ever copied the NZOA model.
NZOA depends on commerical broadcasters willing to screen the shows that it commissions, and I really dont want one documentary every Tuesday or whatever, while everything else is wall to wall reality shows.
Tell me, what do you want to see on TV1. Celebrity Treasure Island, or a decent documentrary about the history of NZ. I know what I would like to see.
Like to point out, that ever since the NZOA model has been impose, quality TV programming has fallen through the floor, not to mention the fact that we never see historical docos in TVNZ anymore.
Unfortunately, you are in the small minority of the population. Most want reality hence why its programmed.
So you you support reality dreck on our national broadcaster? Im not worried about TV3, I just think that we should have more docos on TVNZ. Obviously you are a National supporter who wants to dumb down the population.
