I belive there’s Sky in the picture yet…
I honestly don’t think Sky TV are considering producing the 6:00pm bulletin as their CEO came out today saying that they too were waiting to hear about what the outcome was today, as it affects News First. I think they’re solely focused on producing Sports content, so I would be surprised if they got back into the News industry.
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Could Sky Australia make some mini beaureus like they do back home, and do some special bulletins to air on TV3 and Prime? Very basic and low budget but could still be done? Be a true ANZ news channel. Would be good for their footprint.
Could possibly get into freeview there too.
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Just being honest here, I’d rather tear my eyes out over watching a Sky News Australia bulletin… Biased old right wing opinions.
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Not sure you understand the difference between bulletins and their opinion programming
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It’s a Murdoch owned channel. Of course their reporting is biased aswell
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This is exactly what Sky AU did for Prime until 2015. It was all very basic and low budget (and controlled out of Sydney). From memory it was mostly regurgitated reports from Sky AU and UK. Not great quality - but, I suppose, better than no bulletin at all…
Some articles about the switchover from Sky AU to MediaWorks:
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I think Mark Jennings summed it up perfectly really. Greed from big international companies that have no interest in New Zealand News and Current Affairs and are just interested in making profit. MediaWorks ran the same business module.
It’s not Journalism that is dying in New Zealand, it’s big companies murdering journalists…
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If TVNZ can’t make news profitable and are making cuts, what hope do other companies have?
I don’t disagree with you, just seems like a tough environment to be running a legacy news business in.
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Part of me thinks they just weren’t innovative/bold enough.
They tried the extra news bulletins, but it didn’t really resonate. Perhaps if they’d gone full news 24/7 (CNN NZ or similar under WBD - utilising CNN content as well as 7/other affiliates if able) they could amortise the costs more as well as boosting their news profile and moving high rating entertainment content to Eden/ThreeNow exclusives, which would be good for both platforms.
They were severely lacking in the digital space. Yes their website did okay numbers - although well behind the big 2, but why weren’t Mike and Sam hosting a daily news podcast (ala The Detail/Front Page) for example.
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Also - no idea what it would cost, but buying Sunrise/Today would be at least something they could do in breakfast to cover the absence of the AM Show, especially as both shows essentially start at 7am with news bulletins.
Used to be good when Prime showed Today for a few years.
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It would have to be Sunrise as 7 are Three’s affiliate as you know (Nine are tied up with TVNZ). If they have an agreement anyway I can’t imagine it would cost that much? Presumably Three would have access to the 7 news feeds anyway. Realistically they will probably just replace AM with informercials.
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Not for very much longer, though. But yes, good point.
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Are Kiwis ready for the Cash Cow? 
I think the issue with the extra bulletins was they either aired at awkward time slots or were on multichannels that no one watches. Plus they weren’t well advertised. No wonder they flopped.
What they could have done instead was turn Three itself into a rolling news channel during the day. From AM Early at 5.30 through to the big one at 6pm, just keep it going all day. As you said, they had CNN, 7 News, ITN all to rely on for international reports. Pad out each hour with some interviews and just keep it flowing throughout the day. Maybe some ITV/7 News bulletins during back half hours. Overnight they could either stick with informercials or relay CNN.
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Exactly. They didn’t follow the audience. More bulletins and even a 24/7 news channel weren’t going to save it, they needed to move to digital platforms, and to have been doing so for the last 5-10 years. That’s there the eyeballs are, that’s where the advertisers are, that’s where the news needs to be.
I’d really love to see the staff there try to launch a garage-project that could do the above. Work largely from home, use green-screens or printed backdrops, keep it cheap as chips, see what happens.
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In case anyone missed this:
WBD will leave Flower Street as soon as they are able. If +HR=E survives past 2025 - and I don’t think it will - playout will move Stateside. Luxury apartments, anyone?
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[Labour MP Kieran McAnulty] said the Government could have fast-tracked a bill in front of select committee that would force large overseas tech giants to pay for the New Zealand media used on their sites.
This. This right here. Why are news organisations putting up content on social media on a daily - nay, hourly basis… and making no money from it? It is scandalous. This is what’s killing journalism worldwide. Social media giants should be forced to pay for the news articles that they make money from.
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Meta will just block news on Instagram and Facebook. if they are doing it in Canada and Australia they do the same here in a heartbeat.
Sadly.
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I like Kieran but i seem to recall his party was in power for six years until late last year. These problems aren’t new and his party could have done exactly that .
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