Whoa, wasn’t expecting to be stalked by Maori TV on MediaSpy…
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Four stars have been announced to join Mike McRoberts, who was announced last year if I’m not mistaken. TV presenter Jude Dobson, cook/entrepreneur Nadia Lim, social media influencer William Wairua & former Warriors player Manu Vatuvei.
Matilda Green was announced alongside Mike, but has since pulled out since becoming pregnant.
An amazing lineup I’m soo looking forward to the rest to be announced I really hope Jason Gunn is going to take part
But three I’m sure will surprise us
Judith Collins would be great also
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Jason Gunn is 50? wtf I remember watching him on The Son of a Gunn Show .
Could be a slam-dunk for Prime, or bounce off the backboard… NBL every thursday night from tonight, could be a sign of a sportier channel to come… Screenscribe article here.
MAFS finale is on tonight. If the show wasn’t so long, I would schedule it after the 6pm news on Sunday to lead-in the DWTS premiere.
My pick is there’ll be plenty more to come. I don’t know if it will extend to rugby but i can see Prime being a sport ‘taster’ channel. The NBL is so niche it’s hard to tell if this is a good idea. The fact it’s live is a big factor.
Thursday not an ideal for it but hard to start DWTS cleanly otherwise, yep.
I wonder if next year Three might try and go same-day-plus-1 on it to reduce spoilers.
If Three were to show MAFS on the same nights as Australia, it will mean 9.30pm NZT on Monday-Wednesday and 9pm NZT on Sundays, which may be too late for some fans.
In this day of recording and streaming, don’t think that’d be much of a problem.
Sorry, meant the day after. Could have worded that better. They would lose a Sunday night anchor though if they did that.
Big Brother finales were in the past shown live on TV2 before the ratings tanked.
Watched a bit of Three lately, they really go to a lot of effort with the brand. The promos for different shows using different variations of the logo (such as a lego +HR=E for the new Lego Masters Australia), quite cool. 
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Yep, but the big codes aren’t going to go back FTA, so it has to be the lesser-seen sports or local tournaments (CTV used to show school XIV rugby, for instance.) It’s a good move for the “other” sporting codes, as the big one/s tend to crowd them out in terms of coverage, so hopefully having more of them FTA on Prime will help bolster these sports and Prime’s share.
But time will tell.
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Agree. Could open the door for more sport though, if the new boss wants to make big changes?
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Comedy special Stand Up for Christchurch will be shown on TVNZ2 next Wednesday (April 24) at 8pm.
Anyone else find it odd that TVNZ2 are no longer airing advertising during overnight programming from about midnight anymore just promos for its own shows. Almost makes you wonder why they are scheduling shows during these hours but also good that they still do. I’m guessing its harder to sell the inventory now as well in the current environment?
I remember the days of cheaply made adverts, ‘adult adverts’ and party lines being a staple of the late night schedule when I was growing up.
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If it was today. I don’t think that there is advertising on any stations. As in the broadcasting act
http://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1989/0025/latest/DLM158916.html
Sunday Mornings, ANZAC Day (morning at least), Christmas Day, Good Friday and Easter Sunday are all non-commercial. Hasn’t changed in decades.
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Aware of the advertising restrictions.
TVNZ2 have had no advertising overnights for a wee bit now. Looking at their rate card, it also advises it as being commercial free now until a religious programming at about 5:30am as well as an hour of infomercials at 2:30am.
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Just a hypothesis but maybe TVNZ 1 makes more money overnight with infomercials so its not worth while to run full infomercials on both at the same time and instead run programs that may attract the insomniac audience that might run to sky tv or streaming.
Looking at the TVGuide I can see as an example
Infomercials TVNZ 2
FRIDAY 1:20 AM - 2:20 AM & 5:30 AM - 6:30 AM
MONDAY 2:55 AM - 3:30 AM & 5:30 AM - 6:30 AM
Infomercials TVNZ 1
FRIDAY 1:15 AM - 5:35 AM
MONDAY 3:25 AM - 6:00 AM
Aussie girl doing us proud during the TVNZ broadcast.
