Hard News by Russell Brown

Choice is unlikely to attract NZ On Air support

How so?

How so?

It needs to demonstrate an audience.

Otoh, Bomber's Citizen A show for Triangle apparently gets a little NZOA support, and that's only available in Auckland.

Yes, we started getting the "New Channel" message on our device a few days ago and I was pleasantly surprised to see it will be a genuine station rather than the mystery ghost channels we keep having to tune!

Awesome.

More houseporn is just what the economy needs. Get people back to thinking that they don't need to worry about their shitty job and dickhead boss - just get a huge mortgage, paint that house in Grey Lynn gray and house price inflation (sorry; property appreciation) will take care of the rest.

Why don't they just call it False Consciousness Channel and be done with it?

needs to demonstrate an audience

so can they apply for funding after a ratings period?

the weekend is for Entertainment

In that case, I suggest they look at getting Eurovision. Apparently New Zealand is the only country in the developed world that doesn't screen it. It's good fun, has loads of good music (as well as the cheese) and bags of entertainment. They have a month to arrange it.

Stop a mate thinking, thriving – legend!

a genuine station rather than
the mystery ghost channels…

That could be the end trailer for TVNZ7…
“…You know I can’t watch your intelligent
ghost channels, John Key!”

paint that house in Grey Lynn gray and house price inflation (sorry; property appreciation)

I don't find much to appreciate about block after block of uniformly-coloured properties. But maybe that's just me.

Also, by their somewhat stretched definition of 'Europe' we could probably join and enter a side. I reckon a version of 'Holidays in Cambodia' by the Wellington Ukelele Orchestra might win.

block after block of uniformly-coloured properties

more Botany than Grey Lynn

"When Taika Waititi was working on this screenplay at the Sundance Writers' Lab, its working title was "Choice."

__block after block of uniformly-coloured properties__

more Botany than Grey Lynn

Well, quite. Grey Lynn still even has a few villas painted rainbow.

For some inexplicable reason Bradbury is currently slagging you off on FB (apparently you need 'to apologise' for the Hobbit debacle). I have told him to pull his head in.

Obnxious little man.

Is that really Stirling castle as the first image you see when you go in?

Scotland Revealed in Winter is the kind of cheapo PSB we are getting up here as STV angles itself as the public broadcaster of choice if independence ever happens.

Literally, stick camera up on helicopter, fly aboot and talk over the footage.

Yes, I saw that. The post itself doesn't really make sense.

On Choice tonight at 7.30, Penn & Teller: Fool Us! Magicians are invited to perform in front of Penn & Teller. Should be fun.

Also, by their somewhat stretched definition of 'Europe' we could probably join and enter a side. I reckon a version of 'Holidays in Cambodia' by the Wellington Ukelele Orchestra might win.

Except that's a cover of a previously released song, so it wouldn't be eligible. And the WIUO would have to scale down to a six-piece for the performance. And no live instruments are allowed, so they wouldn't come across so well. Eurovision is serious business.

Unfortunaltely it's not on satelitte, so we can't pick it up

Unfortunaltely it's not on satelitte, so we can't pick it up

At least you guys have SBS.
:(

This is true, I only found out we could pick that up a few weeks ago. Champions league free to air is a good addition!

so they wouldn’t come across so well.

ROFL
We don't get enough ROFLs these days. Good one Robyn.
:-)

I don't care about the contest, but they WIN!

Unfortunaltely it’s not on satelitte, so we can’t pick it up

Yet another win for Sky TV, they et all the “lucky breaks”.
The coverage of terrestrial broadcast is really quite minimal in terms of area.

Freeview|HD is available to 86% of NZ homes and can be picked up using a UHF aerial connected to a Freeview|HD receiver;

That 86% of NZ homes relay just means the Main Centres, the rural folk are stuck with satellite and that means no Heartland, no Choice,
I don’t think many people get a satellite dish without it being through Sky TV so, lucky Sky I guess.

ETA.
With the analogue switch off just around the corner, this should be of great concern to many people .