Your dream TV network

Mate, no offence but we’ve heard all this before. It’s @AK_NEWS and @LiamP’s networks we are talking about now. It’s not all about you.

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Why? Sexists/Mysogonistic much… surely there are better options. No-offense to them, but mate come on. Then again your closedown test cards are basically softcore porn so…

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I’m fine with it, don’t worry.

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Its not just about me And Liam. Paddy’s network is the same as ours. chill out.

@foxyrover You see: I am a good man and some of my friends and relatives - including my uncle, political commentator Shane Te Pou - are supportive of me, including you. They love my ideas, as does my new pals @AK_NEWS and @LiamP.

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I know mate.

Yes mate, I know. (Name dropping much)

Yes mate, I know.

Although @AK_NEWS and @LiamP have followed me in my footsteps and started their own dream networks, they may be incapable of producing their own graphics using Microsoft PowerPoint. I am a keen graphic artist and I have created a set of logos for my own network. If they need me, they’ll be more than happy to do the graphics for them. For the last time, pal, please believe me.

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ouch. Way to put it nicely.

I do mate, but what does this statement even mean?

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What? You dont make sense

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It means to rely on someone or something or to believe that someone’s actions in general are trustworthy. And that’s what the statement means. I have lots and lots of generous support than criticism from people like you.

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For sure

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I know what the word trust means, but why do you always say “trust me”?

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Mate I love what you’re doing with PTV, and everyone needs criticism.

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Pictures or they don’t exist. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I appreciate everyone’s views and talents when it’s constructive but I feel like the conversation between foxy rover and paddy should be taken to direct message and let the thread go back to its original intent about your dream tv.

Anyway stay tuned mullet tv is comimg soon possibly Christmas 2021 :grinning: its a dream tv mock. Not a real one. :yum:

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@Mullet :disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved::disappointed_relieved:

Wow sexist much.

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Now, folks. I have some notes to share with you (thanks to Lawrie Zion from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia).

Hiring attractive women as weather presenters is a time-honoured global tradition. Writing about the history of TV weather in America, Robert Henson points out that it became clear in the 1950s that women could be accepted as weathercasters, as long as the focus was kept on clothing, hairstyle or anatomy. “So began the brief ascendancy of ‘weathergirls’, a term that speaks volumes about the differences in status between these women and their male counterparts in weathercasting.”

But while the weathergirl craze abated in the United States by the early 1960s, in Australia, where television had been introduced relatively recently, it was just beginning. In 1961, an item in the Bureau’s in-house publication, Weather News, noted that in Brisbane, “the majority of stations appear to favour the glamour-girl type of telecaster for weather presentations”, and that “Bureau staff have had the pleasure of indoctrinating and briefing two ‘Miss Australias’ and one ‘Miss Queensland’ in the short time that television has been operating in this State”.

https://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/1492.html

The background training included explaining the need for weather information to be presented seriously and faithfully, “and particularly for the more glamorous the need to submerge their glamour behind the prosaic highs and lows”.

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Let’s move on please.

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Thank you for your concern, @OnAir!