TVNZ

Who would know where the polls are at the moment. I have decided that I won’t reference Roy Morgan anymore. Their polling has become extremely erratic and their refusal to join the polling body just confirms my suspicions. It wouldn;t matter if they showed National above 50%, I will no longer mention their crack fuelled polling.

TVNZ One News Colmar Brunton poll shows a drop for National. I’d suggest their February result was a bit out of kilter, so the drop is not as big as they are making out.

Labour will try to claim this is because of their constant dripping tap of GCSB and also their power policy. However polling was completed well before they released the policy.  Read more »

The other day I blogged about Meteria Turei and her marijuana ideas, NZ First then issued a press release and I blogged again about it this morning.

TVNZ is now running a story about it. Which is good, it needs more coverage.

Metiria Turei’s claim that Maori growing marijuana are developing entrepreneurial and horticultural skills has been slammed as “mind-blowingly ridiculous” by Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne.

The Green Party co-leader made the comment on Maori TV’s Native Affairs programme this week, but she has been cut down by Dunne, who branded the claim as “ridiculous” and “irresponsible in the extreme”.

In the show, Turei said growing the illegal drug helps develop “real skills” among Maori, particularly in disadvantaged areas.

“There’s some real skills there actually, some real entrepreneurial skills, some real horticulture skills, as much as people might think that’s a bit funny,” she said.

However the way they have gone about this story it is somewhat disturbing.

First of all TVNZ doesn’t credit where the story came from. Now you might say they could have found the story themselves and they could have. Except they have lifted the Youtube edit of the story that I did, exactly, from my Youtube channel. In the screenshot below you can see they credit the source as Youtube. The only place this can be found on Youtube is my channel.  Read more »

Don’t you just love Twitter. People say things in the clear they really shouldn’t and we get to see it all.

Take all the media people celebrating that there are no ads on TV for Good Friday and thinking this would be a good permanent state of affairs.

How do they think their big fat salaries are paid for? I’m not sure their employers will enjoy seeing that on their branded Twitter accounts.  Read more »

John Drinnan is being his usual sanctimonious self:

Kenrick raised eyebrows in a recent interview on TV3′s Media3 programme when he said he was not stressed by the state of TVNZ news and current affairs. If he is not worried, maybe it is time for him or the TVNZ board to start taking a look, and comparing how the leaderless newsroom is performing, not just in ratings, but in the oversight of news values and its performance in covering news stories such as the Kim Dotcom saga.  Read more »

I have no idea what posseses politicians to tweet absolutely everything…like Metiria Turei admiring some woollen knitted undies.

Heres your undies @chizchizchiz@knitsch another project but a little disturbing… twitter.com/metiria/status…

— Metiria Turei (@metiria) March 26, 2013

Then again Twitter is useful to find out how much of your work the mainstream media rips off.  Read more »

The Herald should be forced to add compulsory hashtags like #manufactured or #spincycle especially after Regan Cunliffe from Throng has busted them manufacturing a crisis over Seven Sharp:

Last Thursday, Seven Sharp ran a story about domestic violence in a staged enactment in an Auckland street.  This morning (five days later), the New Zealand Herald has a story that claimed“Women’s Refuge has criticised a Seven Sharp story on bystander reaction to violence against women which used the song Smack My Bitch Up as a backing track”.

The New Zealand Herald has a history of inciting anger when there is none and this latest escapade is no different.  Read more »

As an expert communicator, Clare Curran should be familiar with the phrase “Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer”.

Instead she is having a moan on Twitter that the TVNZ CEO gave her a flippant answer to her stupid question. She even moaned about it three separate times just to ram home how scatty she is.

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As reported on Throng, last night’s ratings for Campbell Live finally beat those of Seven Sharp

Via: throng.co.nz

TV3 are all up themselves about it, and TV One are all surly, managing to talk about long term strategies and completely avoiding the elephant in the room:  that TV3 had a (pathetic, yet) killer exclusive last night.

Let’s see what happens over the next few nights, shall we?

Without an “exclusive” Marmite announcment, I doubt they’ll repeat this performance.

Nigel Godfrey has blogged at Throng about Seven Sharp and the decisions behind launching the product.

So let’s parallel the path to the creation of Seven Sharp with any another business.

1. The business owner, TVNZ, has the top-selling product in it’s category (Close-UP).
2. The MD decides to cease making said product and re-invent another product aimed largely at a different customer.
3. The original product completely disappears from shelves to wide-spread disappointment from the now abandoned customers who have been buying it for 23 years.
4. The new product appears on shelves but the market is not sure that it either wants or needs this new product.
5. Many previously loyal customers keep asking where the old product has gone and they go to another shop (TV3) where a similar product to the one that used to be available at the old shop (TVNZ) is still on sale.
6. In the meantime the ‘brains’ behind the disappearance of the afore-mentioned best-selling product and the creation of the new one … resigns.  Read more »

Cactus Kate gives Jessica Mutch a good sledge in response to this tweet:

Out getting shots for my story tonight on the Greens new housing policy twitter.com/MutchJessica/s…

— Jessica Mutch TVNZ (@MutchJessica) January 24, 2013

And Cactus replies:  Read more »