I agree! I think all of the celebrations by Newshub journos are very premature and significant cuts will be made. I know that in all the press hype they’ve said that Disco is committed to local news but I don’t think it’s viable for them to operate Newshub as it is currently. Jobs will be lost I guarantee that.
There must be a identity revamp due soon as Sky CEO said when he took over, hopefully this is a start to the process for SkyPrime
While things may change over time and once all agreements are signed, What we as staff have been told is Discovery have told us to think big in terms of new ideas and things that could draw in more ratings and that things will continue as normal throughout the sale and the other side.
I think it is fair to celebrate as for quite some time we have had uncertainty and now we have certainty while it may not be 100% certainty we have been told that it is highly likely that the deal will go through and its better than a lot of the news we have had at previous announcements by Higher ups and CEOs in the past.
Most of us at Mediaworks now know that our jobs regardless of owner are always at risk due to the changing ways people consume media but of all the people who could have bought Mediawork I feel that Discovery is the best out of all the names that have been batted around by other media organizations.
The other nice thing is Discovery were in the process of due diligence pre covid and saw how it affected us but still took a look at us afterwards and thought we were good to buy.
Personally I am glad we have been bought by someone rather than left to fail or be husked out only for the valuable resources and parted out to other people. Discovery have seen in us that we must be good/worth more than coming in and setting up something else from scratch which would have been easier for them if they wanted a channel without news they could have set it up for much less and had a TVNZ 2 model almost set and forget.
Those are my words on this (Not speaking for Mediaworks) sorry for the long post.
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Don’t be, it gives us on the outside a good insight.
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What Discovery’s purchase of Mediaworks’ struggling TV arm would mean for viewers
Discovery, together with one of its shareholders, owns All3Media, which in turn owns South Pacific Pictures – New Zealand’s largest TV production company.
SPP produces Shortland Street and it is possible, although not very likely, that Discovery might want the soap to screen on Three .
I can’t see why Discovery wouldn’t try and get Shortland Street for 7pm on Three if part-owning SPP makes that possible. TVNZ 2 without Shortland Street would be a disaster but also it is consistently in the top shows on TVNZ Ondemand, so if they are to launch dplay in NZ as Mark Jennings speculates, SS would be a very good show to have.
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It would be a boss move by Discovery to take Shortland Street off TVNZ. I don’t think there would be anything stopping them from doing this.
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If this happens, TVNZ moves Home and Away to 7pm and splits Shortland Streets audience in half while leaving 7 Sharp unaffected.
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Except The Project doesn’t get anywhere near half Seven Sharp’s audience, & Home and Away never registers in the top 20 shows but agree, moving H&A to 7 would probably be their best bet if it was to happen
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Except if they can make more money by selling SS to TVNZ, and put something to air at 7pm on +HR=E that makes money to their core demo, that earns greater income overall for Disco, then SS will stay right where it is.
You’ve got to remember, even if Disco own these assets, they are divided up amidst different divisions, and so a linear solution like SS jumping to TV3 isn’t quite so clear-cut.
That said, it’s always fun to speculate!
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Also depends on how long the current agreement/deal regarding Shortland Street runs for.
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A new Sky next-gen box has been confirmed today according to Sky boss Martin Stewart.
• Support for 4K or ultra-high resolution video, four-times the picture quality of today’s decoders, if old-hat for the likes of Netflix (which is now experimenting with 8K)
• Give you the ability to load your own apps, such as Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, Disney+, 3Now and TVNZ OnDemand
• Let you watch all of Sky’s regular channels plus on-demand content, but over a broadband internet connection rather than requiring a satellite dish
• A remote control with voice search.
• A one terabyte hard drive
Read more here: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12363887
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That looks like an Nvidia Shield
I think we need to rename this forum Three (Including Newshub). Looking like we could be expecting some exciting changes to the Three network soon!
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Not showing for me.
I re-uploaded a screenshot instead of link to their Facebook Post. Try now.
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What would the 2 suggest? A subchannel?
That’s what I was thinking. Maybe they’re replacing Bravo with “Three 2”. That’s all I can think of.
How about they change that hideous logo first. A logo kinda like 10’s would be nice with a circle 3. Or bring back the classic logo.
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Totally agree. Since the +HR=E relaunch I feel it’s just gone downhill. Return to a more classic “Three” or “TV3” and start again!