I would say both services are warranted.
Thanks guys. I feel like I have a better understanding about NZ television as whole.
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Iâve deleted a few posts here as it got wildly off topic towards the end.
Nothing wrong with a bit of hypothesising but this was getting spiteful.
A regional TV news service will never happen here (again).
Oh, oh, my turn!
Just a couple of points, NZ didnât have a network until the early 70s - there was a temporary setup in the late 60âs but nothing reliable for nationwide broadcast. Until then, TV was regional, most local stuff was live and prerecorded content was sent about the country from each of the four stations. In the mid-70âs when TV2 started, TV1 took the network link during the day and TV2âs programming was sent overnight until capacity was increased.
As for today; Prime News Hamilton wasnât that successful, hence why it was pulled first. Prime News Christchurch was more successful, but had competition from two other local channels at the time, and ultimately they pulled stumps on it. The national networks arenât going to do regional broadcasts, the only one capable of it now is TV1, and theyâve have to do a VAST-type rolling channel ala Australia. Anyone can start a regional channel (with enough funding), so other than the internet, that is the only way local news would get to air.
South Island has five regions for broadcasting; Nelson/Tasman, North Canterbury, South Canterbury, Dunedin and Invercargill. Youâd need to deal with Kordia to get bandwidth for 2 of those and JDA for the 3 smaller ones and youâll still miss out on Blenheim, Queenstown, the Coast and large swathes of white-space where DTT signals darenât reach. Then youâd need still need to get your signal to JDA (to each site), and Kordia, and weâve not got any suites, staff, cameras or plant. Got a money tree?
Iâd live to see more regional TV, but it isnât going to happen, unless someone like MTS can setup a third channel on a regional basis (and do the VAST infill thing on Te Reo). It would have to be bilingual to reach the maximum potential audience, but by having local content and people youâre more likely to know on it, would serve as a platform to potentially increase the number of Maori speakers (which is what MTS was established for in the first place). Perhaps partnering up with local Iwi radio stations would help provide the manpower, and they could use the channel when the news isnât on to broadcast their station? But all this would need to be govt-funded.
Taurekareka, how about setting up a petition to Government, if you feel so strongly about it?
And as for bagging Aussies and Kiwis, just stop it. A stands beside NZ in ANZACâs. Itâs like that for a reason. Learn to share the pav.
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Great contribution.
Iâm just mystified that small cities like Christchurch/Wellington could not sustain a local news service and have their own voice. Canberra with a similar population is served by three local bulletins.
Centres like Bendigo and Ballarat (similar size to Dunedin) have two commercial bulletins transmitted to their regions.
I think we can see and understand the need for a local bulletin of some sort. But like others have said, maybe the ship has sailed, and this should have been put in place or set as a requirement 10-20 years ago.
It is a bit mystifying really when you look at the places you have listed that have a news service.
I would recommend you watch this clip from about 6 minutes in.
- TVNZ became fully focused on profit and restructured and centralized a lot of its operations in the late 80âs.
- TV3 never had the money to fulfill its regional tv ambitions and was in financial difficulty very early on.
It would be interesting to see what the local news programmes were rating at the time of their axing. They probably werenât bad as it wasnât like they had a great deal of competition back then. But axing them would have been an easy way to save money.
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Watched the whole program.
Tonightâs Episode of The Project NZ was Different than Usual with Jesse Mulligan Fracturing his Thumb, Nadine Higgins joined Kanoa Lloyd and Two Other Women for the First Ever Episode to feature an All-Female Panel, Itâs Taken Two and a Quarter Years to Occur.
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http://www.screenscribe.net/channels/game-of-thrones-goes-fta-for-grand-finale/
Well this is interestingâŚ
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Very interesting move including the bits about other prime programming being moved on.
I have enjoyed recent write ups about the new Sky TV boss as well as their head of sport, primarily because of their honesty regarding their product. Its shows they that they accept the perception Sky now has and how they aim to rectify it and move the business forward.
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Just found a bit of history on YouTube. A full One News Tonight bulletin from September 19, 2005. 2 days after the 2005 election.
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Post-Eric Young era by this point, after he supposedly left TVNZ over a disagreement when he was replaced as producer of Tonight (but remained as co-presenter with Kate).
I always loved that 2004 era of Tonight.
I think the guy who replaced Eric as producer was David Lomas, Who now does the Lost and Found missing persons show on Three.
I remember the whole Ali controversy. She wasnât happy. This was in 2006 (?) after Holmesâ shift there was a failure, when she went over as reporter/back-up anchor.
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That whole period is so blurry, it seems like a lot of
movement was happening in the NZ TV scene overall.
Another excellent article by Newsroom on TV advertising & revenue
I would certainly hope that there is a Wendy Petrie equivalent advertisement in the works. After all he doesnât present the bulletin on his own.
Thereâs a Jenny-May one doing the rounds and Dan Corbett, presume thereâs others.
Iâve seen some with Barbara Dreaver and Paul Hobbs too.
In some other very sad news, heavyweight of the NZ entertainment industry Pua Magasiva was found dead in Wellington yesterday - aged 38. Heartbreaking. RIP.
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Anyone Know how I can stream 10 News Firsts Election Coverage from NZ?
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