We’re lucky to be getting even that… were the fees not about to be waived I suspect we’d be seeing TV3 close down altogether. Hell, Warners might still decide to pull the plug in due course!
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Very likely.
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Which is why the broadcast fee shouldn’t be waved for WBD. If WBD can’t operate Three effectively then it is time for them to part company - it shouldn’t be seen that they either do it the WBD way or not at all. Obviously the climate would be tough for anyone taking over the channel but much greater justification in waving the fees should a local based consortium take it over than for an international media conglomerate who couldn’t care less about their impact on the NZ media landscape.
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On TVNZ 2 next Friday after The Amazing Race finishes, the channel will revive Friday Night films starting with the 2005 film The Bridge.
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The problem is… who would buy TV3? I take your point, definitely - I don’t even disagree with you - but I just don’t see who in NZ would be interested in taking it on. Sky? They already own a free-to-air channel and seem content using that to advertise their paid services. I can’t see NZME and Stuff wanting in either… so who’s left? TVNZ probably wouldn’t, and definitely shouldn’t, be allowed to buy it for obvious reasons.
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What are the ratings like for Sky Open (crap name, Prime was much better) compared to Three and TVNZ1/2?
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Paramount Global can buy TV3 it would be much better. If WBD will be selling TV3.
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I have not looked into the NZ TV ratings lately, but it suggested way behind
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Well no because that’d just be passing it like a hot potato to another struggling American conglomerate, especially one which is in the process of trying to go through with their own merger.
I’d imagine if TV3 was sold in the near future, it’d probably be to a Canwest-type company.
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Exactly, I don’t think any other owner could make a better go of the business than what WBD have done. If sky were to buy it there would be an increase of sport on Three but that’s about it, they invested minimal local content in the FTA market with prime and their interest in producing their own news service is evident.
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I don’t think Sky would buy Three and their channels business, but there is an argument that if WBD aren’t willing to pay the licence fee to be on Channel 3 then Sky might be if they think Sky Open would benefit from the higher slot, especially as appears to be the casse there are no programming requirements from holding the licence (which is odd).
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Australian comedy panel show The Hundred, hosted by comedian Andy Lee, premieres on TVNZ 2 tomorrow (April 30) at 8.30pm. Six seasons have been made so far, with season 6 having aired in Australia from February to March this year.
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A rare glimpse at TV ratings in NZ…might need some interpreting.
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And here for comparisons sake is a random night from the corresponding week 10 years ago
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if what Chris Keall has posted includes tvnz+ streams, then Shortland Street doesn’t look to have picked up much… as I think it’s usually fairly close to that number
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Certainly not much at all if it includes its streaming figures, if anything those numbers are dire. The audience haven’t just abandoned it’s 7pm screening they have outright abandoned the show.
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New Three boss already making cuts
- Juliet Peterson was named head of Warner Bros Discovery NZ on Wednesday, after Glen Kyne announced his resignation in the wake of Newshub’s axing.
- She said local versions of MAFS, Traitors and My Mum Your Dad, funded the same way as Newshub, would no longer be produced.
- Three would become “a window for ThreeNow” under a digital first strategy
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Didn’t they already announce all location productions would cease, not just the closure of Newshub?
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