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I have never said anywhere that NZ On Air can claim all the credit.
you don't normally if ever mention any other factors either.
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have you got that link please, "the 40 most played nz songs"
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The point I was trying to make is that music made by New Zealander's is a reflection of our culture and identity;
that's pretty fuzzy.
if bands in nz started playing African tribal music would that be considered part of our identity and culture?
there are recognisable qualities to past new zealand music, and there are decernable differences in current music and overseas equivalents.
granted it is a difficult task to identify and focus on those features, but a new zealandness does exist. and if it didn't exist what exactly are we funding for. we don't need more artists in low paying work do we. surely retraining them as accountants with better employment prospects and importing all our music would serve just as well as funding indiscriminately based purely on the wants of an industry based on the sale of advertising
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what's the split in terms of resources devoted to each sector.
you said $800000 for national/bnet? leaving the rest of the budget to tackle comm radio? that's a lot of resources for an indifferent sector.so you decided to take the commercial radio course of action, devote 4/5ths of the resources to that goal for 9 years.
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If you look at the 40 most-played songs on New Zealand radio at the moment (www.radioscope.co.nz), none is Crowded House or Split Enz.
that link didn't work. are you talking top 40 across all music or top 40 nz songs on nz radio?
Its an exaggeration sure but you get the point. We're not much more educated as a nation about the music we make than we were 25 years ago, a generalisation but one with a foundation. -
quotas and youth radio network as an alternative to nz on air for dealing with the issue of radio play of local content.
ie as a replacement strategyinteresting point re labour coming in on a quota platform which they didn't install.
you are supposed to implement govt policy but you also appear to initiate it too, and interpret it in your own way.
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Sorry. Will do better next time ...
:) good one brendan, at least you have a sense of humor.
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How so ? It's not like they fund artists for non commercial radio...
well if it revolved around all radio equally then there wouldn't be the issues there are now. They canned the indie hit disc cos they didn't see the point in catering to that market which they saw as viable for bands to contact directly themselves.
The nz on air fund was set aside to deal with the issues of broadcasting.
if there are other issues like internet exposure that people need assistance with cos its too expensive to do off their own back then I suppose thats a different task to tackle.