Posts by Yamis
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What makes it worse is you CAN subscribe to the French channel (France 24) on it's own for $7 a month.
The WTV package is separate to SKY. You watch it through your MYSKY decoder but the money is going to WTV who have bundled up the 10 channels. You get redirected to WTV and get it through them. So that would suggest that SKY themselves haven't made any effort to organise some Asian foreign language programming themselves at all aside from the Hindi channel which is Star Plus at 10.21 a month. So SKY can just wash their hands of it.
In WTV's words:
What's the relationship between WTV and SKY?WTV does the marketing and provision of the Asian channels, as well as producing local programmes. SKY TV does installation, invoicing and caters for other technical aspects.
For all intents and purposes they are a Chinese TV provider. And Sky doesn't appear to have made any effort to provide for other 'potential user groups' in NZ. I've sent WTV an email asking them why they don't split their channels up. Don't expect much of a response. I emailed them a few years ago when I first discovered the exorbitant price and obvious flaw in their package. Got a 'non answer'.
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It's so frustrating. The package that has the 'Asian' channels is World TV. They are provided by World TV (WTV), not SKY, so when I asked SKY why they weren't available as separate channels based on you know LANGUAGE!!! they said, "oh there's nothing we can do about it, World TV are responsible for providing the package".
OMG! Are you taking the piss? I complained about that in 2010. And 3 years later it's the same backward arse shit only it costs even more than it did then.
There are 12 channels. 9 are Chinese, 2 are Korean and 1 is Japanese.
Would somebody tell me why a Japanese person would pay $56.62 a month EXTRA for one channel? Or one of the 25,000 Koreans living in NZ would pay that for 2 channels?
Amateur hour. Or is that Amateur decade?
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My wife gets angry with me when I try to fast forward through the ads when we've MY SKYed the news (which we do every day). It's about the only NZ TV she watches and she's from Korea so it's kind of like the only bit of commercial info she gets as the rest of her media experience is watching hours of Korean TV, internet guff etc :)
I'd love to know just how many households in Auckland now don't watch any NZ TV at all, or SFA anyway. It must now have cracked 100,000 and counting. The language barrier fullstop will be the reason for a large number, but simply the choice of being able to watch TV from back home fairly easily must be big.
One thing that is annoying is that the Asian TV channels on SKY are packaged up so you have to pay something like $50 a month for all of them (last time I looked). Why the hell would a Korean want to pay $50 a month for 2 channels alongside some Chinese and Japanese ones (when they don't speak those languages)??? Especially when they can get the same content that's on them virtually for free through the net.
Catch up Sky and get your third party providers to unbundle their shit and work out how to produce a useful, cheap product. Maybe they could even get relevant local advertisers in the mix.
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The highest rating program in the USA in the last couple of years has been NFL football on Sunday nights, along with NCIS and they get about 20-25 million viewers a week which is around the 6-8% of the population mark.
The Block gets 637,950 out of 4,430,000 for it's finale.
= 14% of the population, and maybe about 10% for it's regular mid season stuff.The biggest watched TV show in the USA EVERY YEAR is the Superbowl which gets around 80-90 million viewers which is around 27% of the population. It's booyah for the hosting network because the ads during the game (of which their are many) cost millions of dollars for one 30sec time slot.
So TV3 must be rubbing it's hands together to get a show that is rating that high 3 nights a week for that many weeks.
Any idea on what it typically costs for a 30 sec ad in primetime on NZ TV and what it might cost during a high rating show????
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One of the main stories on the CNN website.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/19/world/asia/new-zealand-mayor-scandal/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
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Seriously, if that's the standard that is laid down for being a professional music critic in NZ then sign me up. I can hold down a fulltime job and produce that sort of wankery for free. Whoever pays that guy could save some money. Send me a CD. I'll listen to it once and make some random shit up.
If he reads this then he's probably all pumped up on adrenaline and it's bouncing off his biceps.
What a shame.
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That's right Russell.
You just get the "Opinion", "PC" cards played which are basically the two joker cards in any discussion. They get slapped on the table when the player doesn't have any "Argument" or "Fact" cards in their hand.
Snap! :)
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Hard News: Friday Music: History, motherfuckers, in reply to Peter Johnston,
As a 50-year old male I can't quite explain why I have been so caught up in the Lorde story. Partly it's been almost a paternal interest - because she is part of a peer group of young Kiwi musicians that my son is also part of, who don't see age or geographic isolation as being any barrier to them pursuing their musical dreams. They just get on with it.
I happen to be 37 years old as well. And I'm interested in Lorde for 3 reasons I guess. 1) I quite like her sound and lyrics, I won't be buying any of it but it's a decent listen, 2) She's a Kiwi girl, 3) I teach high school students, including dare I say it 16 year old girls. To see what she is doing with herself at the same age is quite amazing.
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Sweetman needs to change his surname. Because he ain't that.
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I'm a bit late on the Friday thread (as usual).
I didn't see the Cyrus performance at the VMA's but I was bombarded by kids for days after at school asking me if I'd seen it. From my Year 10s up to my Year 13s, but mainly the younger ones. So the kiddies saw it alright.
I can't stand that Blurred Lines song, right from when I first heard it on Mai FM. I've got a Jap import that was fresh off the boat and I only pick up Mai so I got barraged by it for a while. I like Hip Hop and R'nB so no big deal, but for a few days I thought it was a PI group haha, then found out otherwise. Terrible song, terrible lyrics, terrible video. My ears hate it and I switch to the other station I get - Radio Sport. I see that T Veitch is shifting to ZB. Is that right? Mark Watson replacing him in the mornings. God have mercy on us. Veitch was flawed in multiple ways but Watson is a lame wanna be sport shock jock.