TVNZ Archive

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  The Government’s generosity to private broadcasters - by Sue Kedgley

  
  
  
  Interesting to see that the Cabinet Minister most closely aligned with Media Works, Stephen Joyce, has apparently approved a generous deferral of payments worth $43 million to Media Works to enable it to renew its license fee for the next twenty years. Mr Joyce was the founder and owner for 18 years of Radio Works [...] read more
  March 9, 2011 11:18 am - 35 Comments
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  Nats weekend turns from bad to worse - by Russel Norman

  
  
  
  The National Party had a bad local body election with their favoured candidates losing out. Especially Banks in Auckland. And now their favourite TV shock jock has resigned from TVNZ. Paul Henry has gone after his racist comments about the GG. Henry, a former National Party candidate, specialized in giving John Key a nice easy [...] read more
  October 10, 2010 8:11 pm - 16 Comments
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  Paul Henry an international embarrassment to New Zealand - by frog

  
  
  
  Indian TV station NDTV reports: External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has described as “totally unacceptable” the remarks made by a TV talk show host in New Zealand against Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. The minister said that the High Commissioner of New Zealand has been asked to meet him. Earlier this week, TV anchor Paul [...] read more
  October 7, 2010 8:33 pm - 65 Comments
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  Captioning the Rugby World Cup - by frog

  
  
  
  It was pleasing to discover yesterday, via a question from Catherine to Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman, that the seven Rugby World Cup matches screened live on TVNZ next year will include live captioning for the deaf community – after all, we promised the world a ‘stadium of 4 million people’, and this ought to include [...] read more
  September 23, 2010 2:25 pm - 2 Comments
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  TVNZ – step up to the Convention - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  TVNZ might be at risk of becoming blasé about complaints to the Human Rights Commission. After all, it is becoming a regular occurrence thanks to their ongoing support for Paul Henry’s barking and dog whistling. Henry is willing to incite prejudice and contempt for women who are not Barbie and people with intellectual impairments. read more
  December 3, 2009 6:41 pm - 59 Comments
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  TVNZ plan plainly all wrong - by Sue Kedgley

  
  
  
  Obscene is the only word that springs to mind when contemplating the $830,000 salary of the Chief Executive of TVNZ Rick Ellis.   Perhaps it could be justified in some purely commercial enterprise.  But TVNZ is supposed to be a public service broadcaster, which puts the public interest ahead of commercial profiteering. How can New [...] read more
  October 28, 2009 2:12 pm - 17 Comments
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  Gareth Morgan: The science is irrefutable - by frog

  
  
  
  Nobody wants to hear it from the Greens. Perhaps they will listen to Gareth Morgan, one of New Zealand’s more successful economists. Gareth got fed up with all the noise surrounding global warming, so he decided to hire the best scientific guns he could find on both sides of the so-called debate. Sceptics vs Alarmists. [...] read more
  May 3, 2009 8:38 pm - 67 Comments
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  Dr Coleman Saves NZ from Totalitarian TV! - by frog

  
  
  
  Image crafted by Lyndon Hood New Zealand’s chances of turning into North Körea got a little bit slimmer thanks to the current Government’s plan to cancel the TVNZ charter. In 2003 when the then Labour government introduced the TVNZ Charter aimed at bolstering our national identity I thought yippee.  National identity bolstering is good stuff.  [...] read more
  March 27, 2009 9:22 am - 16 Comments
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  First impressions of Q+A - by frog

  
  
  
  My first impression of TVNZ’s new political show, Q+A, is very likely to be my last. I’ll go for the written transcript if my job or my interest requires it. It is visually and aurally obnoxious. In a word: garish. To begin with, the lion’s share of interview/talk time is given over to Paul Holmes. [...] read more
  March 22, 2009 12:15 pm - 37 Comments
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  Razor Gangs Launch Assault On State Workers - by Sue Kedgley

  
  
  
  It’s just as well Stephen Franks didn’t make it to Parliament as an MP. He repeatedly promised Wellingtonians that there would be NO CUTS to the PUBLIC SERVICE – at public meeting after public meeting in Wellington All there could be, he promised Wellington voters, was some switch from ‘unnecessary administrators’ to ‘front line services.’ [...] read more
  March 18, 2009 11:00 am - 45 Comments
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  The Attitude Awards – A TABS Wake up Call - by Catherine Delahunty

  
  
  
  Yesterday was World Disability Day, and last night the inaugural Attitude Awards ceremony was held at Sky City. The TVNZ programme “Attitude” that celebrates the achievements of people living with impairments created the “Attitude Awards” which were sponsored by a range of businesses and ACC. One in five people in Aotearoa live with an impairment, [...] read more
  December 4, 2008 4:37 pm - 139 Comments
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  Trustworthiness; it’s like truthiness - by frog

  
  
  
  Nice work by McTap, a bunch of Young Greens and some Frogblog readers, has in two days seen Winston Peters go from zero percent in TVNZ’s online poll on the most trustworthy MP in Parliament, to 36 percent, neck and neck for the lead with John Key.  Turia and Sharples have now been belatedly added [...] read more
  September 27, 2008 9:57 am - 11 Comments
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  Excluded cos we’d win? - by frog

  
  
  
  I’ve just been pointed to this TVNZ webpoll on who is the trustworthiest politician.  Out of over 120 MPs your only choices to vote for are Clark, Key, Peters, Anderton, Hide and Dunne.  Neither the Greens nor the Maori Party are listed. Maybe this poll is like one of the the preliminary knockout rounds before [...] read more
  September 25, 2008 3:15 pm - 20 Comments
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  Jamie and the chicken - by frog

  
  
  
  As promised last night. See also here. read more
  August 27, 2008 8:42 am - 12 Comments
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  Jamie Oliver serves chicken - by frog

  
  
  
  Tonight TVNZ is showing Jamie Oliver’s The Big Food Fight: Jamie’s Fowl Dinners where the English chef as he usually does, hosts a dinner, but this time to demonstrate the reality of how chickens live and die to put food on our plates: With the help of poultry farmers and experts, Jamie brings together consumers, [...] read more
  August 26, 2008 5:03 pm - 32 Comments
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  Jeanette and the Values Party - by frog

  
  
  
  This video has been doing the rounds of Green Party members on facebook: From TVNZ On Demand’s – The Unauthorised History of New Zealand – Series 4, episode 4 which first broadcast a few days ago. read more
  August 7, 2008 3:12 pm - 72 Comments
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  A nasal interpretation of a Bee Gee - by frog

  
  
  
  Always helpful, I’ve found a new defence for Winston from the media’s attacks.  He just needs to copy Peter Madsen who is threatening to sue a Manawatu journalist for saying his performance on Stars in Their Eyes was like ” rooster on nitrous oxide”.  Madsen’s argument is that ‘he is a professional impersonator and the [...] read more
  July 30, 2008 2:21 pm - 2 Comments
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  What’s the public good of broadcasting? - by frog

  
  
  
  I feel a certain amount of sympathy for the National Party over its beratable broadcasting policy.  The nature of media has changed so much in recent years that the debate can no longer be easily defined as either public or private.  With a multitude of television stations, radio networks and print publications available, many operating [...] read more
  July 8, 2008 10:35 am - 24 Comments
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  Henry’s holiday - by frog

  
  
  
  You can imagine the disappointment around here at news that Breakfast TV’s Paul Henry won’t be on our morning airways for a few months. TVNZ isn’t naming who Henry’s fill in will be but sources suggest that, with no shortage of failed right wing politicians to choose from, Don Brash is a leading contender.  Roger Douglas [...] read more
  June 9, 2008 1:11 pm - 5 Comments
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  TNVZ poll also shows Greens up - by frog

  
  
  
  Over the weekend TVNZ’s Colmar Brunton poll continued to show an upward trend for the Greens, moving from 4.6 to 6%. The TVNZ poll often seems to be one that the Greens fare poorly in. And it’s a frustrating one because it is often hard to tell from the coverage when the poll was conducted [...] read more
  February 18, 2008 1:36 pm - 14 Comments