Not that it matters whatsoever but purely, off observation in this forum, Carly has worn this outfit the last three times she has presented Prime News.
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Getting their moneys worth, but doubt they have any budget for wardrobe for this bulletin.
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Michael O’Keeffe (formerly of Newshub Sport) anchored Prime News last night on Matariki.
I wonder if he is a contender for the weekend Newshub reading role?
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Shocking lighting/green screen spill?
Yeah - Prime never looks particularly flash as a viewing experience. I believe it’s basically in a ‘studio’ the size of a broom closet of the Newshub/Discovery studios. Someone here might know more.
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More the size of an office with a small control room, it used to be the C4 studio
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To think the Prime name will live on further in NZ than Australia!
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That’s because Prime has been on air in New Zealand since it started on 30 August 1998. It was originally owned and operated by Prime Television Ltd (then Prime Media Group Ltd), a now-defunct Australian company, before being sold to Sky Network Television Ltd in 2006. Today, Prime is fully owned by Sky.
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Nine/PBL owned it between the Prime and Sky ownership.
They saw the launch of Prime News at 5.30 which was then presented and produced at Sky News in Sydney.
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The disagreements between Owner Prime Television and Nine Entertainment Co. lead up for the sale of a network which at one point was too Australian for NZ audiences, since SKY brought this they are many programmes that aired on SKY pay channels airing FTA on Prime
IIRC, Nine entered into a joint ownership with Prime?
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I believe that was the case. I don’t recall any backlash over Australian content either. That was arguably the start of Prime’s strongest era.
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There was no disagreement, the 50/50 joint venture and outright takeover of Prime by PBL was dependant on Prime actually breaking even and not making a loss. They took a big gamble in securing Paul Holmes in 2004 and thought they could buy his ratings success from TVNZ. By the end of August 2005 Paul Holmes nightly current affairs show had failed and Nine wasn’t prepared to offset anymore losses and decided to exit. Had they stuck around and helped launch Freeview in NZ enabling them better coverage, the channel could of been a success imho.
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Prime’s content would be a whole lot different today than the programmes full of SKY programming, Nine could have hire more talent to replace Holmes to lure ratings away from TVNZ or TV3
It would’ve been hard to break their stranglehold, and clearly PBL didn’t want to keep throwing cash at it.
The sad reality is ended up putting up for sale and NZ’s SKY TV brought the channel in 2006 meaning it’s 100% Kiwi owned and lot of SKY sport programming airing FTA on Prime such as The Ditch and The Breakdown
The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games are set to begin next week (29 July). Sky is the official broadcaster of the Games and Prime’s free-to-air coverage includes a mix of live and delayed telecasts, although it is off-topic.
The Sky team includes Andrew Mulligan and Courtney Tairi, as shown in the snapshots below, along with Goran Paladin, Kirstie Stanway, Stephen McIvor, Laura McGoldrick and Jeff McTainsh. Kristina Eddy, Ravinder Hunia, Storm Purvis, Rikki Swannell and Karl Te Nana are also part of the team.
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I do remember the suggestion that Nine could try and get content deals for the NZ market that were aligned to what they had in Australia but that never ended up happening. On that note I also came across this article from 2004.
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I was surprised that Prime once considering a local version of Who Wants to be a millionaire but that never came into fruition, TVNZ would produce a NZ version for TV One (now TVNZ 1) with Mike Hosking hosting the series
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