One News

Here is a run down of the 5 most important stories on One News and 3 News tonight.  Please leave your comments on the bulletins in the comments below.

ONE News

1. Predictions of earthquakes in Canterbury for 30 years (Alison Pugh, live cross)
2. Salvors prepare Rena for weather (Renee Graham, live cross)
3. Ports of Auckland industrial dispute
4. New laws in Fiji (Barbara Dreaver, live cross)
5. Changes to US defence spending (Tim Wilson)

3 News

1. Christchurch earthquake (Annabelle Tukia)
2. Taranaki earthquake
3. Body of woman found in car in Christchurch (Jessica Rowe)
4. Hitler saved by priest as a child (David Farrier)
5. Summer weather(Jono Hutchison)

Commentary

One News lead with an incredibly sensational story about the predicted fate of everyone living in Christchurch for the next three decades.

It’s the news no one in Christchurch wants to hear.  Earthquakes might continue in the city and the Canterbury province for the next 30 years. GNS scientists made the prediction today.

What the GNS scientists actually said was

A 5 following this sequence is still very likely. Magnitude 3′s are likely to go on for several years. Magnitude 1′s and 2′s will go for [?] 30 years…

It’s hard to know what the context was around the comment either as it appeared to be an edited sound bite. 

For all that fear mongering, how noticeable will those three decades of earthquakes be?  According to the Modified Mercalli scale:

1′s. Very mild movement, only detectable by instruments.

2′s. Some people feel a slight movement, particularly on upper floors of buildings. Suspended objects such as chandeliers may swing.

Three decades of nothing significantly noticeable at all then.  Based on the last 5 years, 1′s and 2′s aren’t that uncommon in Canterbury anyway.  

Verdict

3 News

Here is a run down of the 5 most important stories on One News and 3 News tonight.  Please leave your comments on the bulletins in the comments below.

ONE News

1. Worst weather set to batter Rena (Renee Graham)
2. Foveaux Straight deaths
3. Destiny Church recieves consent to build town (Kate Lynch)
4. Engineers maintain Parklands safe for rebuild (Alison Pugh, live cross)
5. Accidental millionare remanded in custody

3 News

1. Foveaux Straight deaths (Leanne Malcolm)
2. Locator beacons (Alex Bourne)
3. Boaties rescued in Sydney after clining to Esky
4. Worst weather set to batter Rena (Jono Hutchison)
5. Accidental millionaire remande in custody (Adam Hollingworth)

Commentary

One News again lead with the Rena tonight with more warnings about its demise as this weekend’s weather will be the worst the ship has had to endure in the three months it’s been stuck on the Astrolabe reef.  If their wish is granted and the ship dramatically breaks apart, unfortuneately for them, the weather will most likely prevent them from sending a chopped in to catch the action on camera.

The events of the sea continued on 3 News with an emotional interview with the father of one of the two men who died in Foveaux Straight.  The following story about locator beacons seemed as though it should have been on a current affairs programme.  Then, the story of the boaties who were rescued in Sydney after clinging to a chillybin before more warnings about the storm about to lash the Rena.

One News had footage from Destiny’s New Years service where Brian Tamaki announced they had the consents to build a town for their church in South Auckland.  It always amuses me that despite all of TV3′s digging, One News always seems to get the stories and interviews.

More of the same for Parklands residents and there didn’t really seem to be anything new in Alison Pugh’s story.

The accidental millionaire in court rounded out the top 5 on both channels

Verdict

Tie

Here is a run down of the 5 most important stories on One News and 3 News tonight.  Please leave your comments on the bulletins in the comments below.

ONE News

1. Fonterra quits Ports of Auckland (Kate Lynch)
2. 2 deaths in Foveaux Straight (Max Bania)
3. Search suspended for DoC volunteer 
4. Occupy Wellington (Daniel Faitaua)
5. Holiday road toll

3 News

1. Fonterra quits Ports of Auckland (Jono Hutchison, live cross)
2. 2 deaths in Foveaux Straight (Annabelle Tukia)
3. Calls for regulation and licenses for boaties (Charlotte Shipman)
4. Tramper found in Tararua ranges
5. Search suspended for DoC volunteer

Commentary

The three stories in common were the top 3 on One News while the suspended search for the missing DoC volunteer came in at place 5 on 3 News.

Occupy Wellington and the holiday road toll with the other two stories on One News while a tramping death and calls for regulations and licensing for boaties rounded out the top 5 on 3 News.

Verdict

Tie

Here is a run down of the 5 most important stories on One News and 3 News tonight.  Please leave your comments on the bulletins in the comments below.

ONE News

1. Search for missing DoC volunteer on Raoul Island (Ruth Wynn-Williams)
2. Boating death at Lake Ohakuri
3. Holiday road toll
4. Australian fires/hot weather (Heather du Plessis-Allen)
5. Arrest in LA arsons (David Wright, ABC)

3 News

1. Search for missing DoC volunteer on Raoul Island (Jane Luscombe)
2. Rescue at Hot Water Beach (Alex Bourn)
3. Christchurch residents encouraged to stay (Annabelle Tukia)
4. Holiday road toll
5. Charges for arsonist/burglar in Christchurch

Commentary

The search for the missing DoC volunteer in the Kermadecs lead both bulletins tonight while the only other story in common was the holiday road toll. 

As is customary with this time of year, deaths and near deaths near water featured as well.  A boating death on One and swimmers getting caught in a rip in the Coromandel.

The fires in Australia and LA were on One while Christchurch was again in the top 5 on 3.

Verdict

Tie

ONE NEWS continues to be the news programme of choice for New Zealanders.

In 2011, on average, ONE NEWS had double the audience during the news hour compared to 3 News. ONE NEWS boasts an impressive 660,000 people on average compared to 3 News’ 331,000.

During major news events this year including the Royal Wedding and the Rugby World Cup period, the gap was even wider; with ONE NEWS’ average audience lifting to 680,000, whereas 3 News dropped to an average audience of 329,000.

TV ONE’s Editor of Daily News Programmes, Paul Patrick says: “We’re thrilled that New Zealanders have chosen us day after day as their preferred programme, and continue to turn to us during those times where major events are affecting the country and the world.

“We’re committed to delivering New Zealanders what they want and need during these times, providing bulletins they can rely on and delivering the best this country’s journalists’ have to offer on a daily basis.

“Next year looks set to be another full news year with the US Elections and London Olympics, and ONE NEWS will be right there in the thick of it.”

*source: Nielsen TAM
Period: 1 January – 19 December 2011
Demographic: All people aged 5 years and over
**up to 30/12/11

Here is a run down of the 5 most important stories on One News and 3 News tonight.  Please leave your comments on the bulletins in the comments below.

ONE News

1. Christchurch earthquake (Daniel Faitaua, live cross)
2. Christchurch earthquake report
3. Violent assault in Napier
4. Teen drowns in waterfall
5. Tramper’s body recovered from Mt Aspiring National Park

3 News

1. Search underway for missing DoC worker on Kermadecs (Jerram Watts, live cross)
2. Christchurch earthquake (Annabelle Tukia, live cross)
3. Holiday traffic
4. Violent assault in Napier (Janika Ter Ellen)
5. Martial law to be lifted in Fiji (Jane Luscombe)

Commentary

It almost feels as if TVNZ just don’t care about news over the holiday period.  Once again, their top five was dominated by short stories delivered from the news readers with only one story being fronted by someone not on vacation.  

3 News lead with the news that a member of a DoC team on Raoul Island in the Kermadecs has gone missing and a search is now underway.  

There is now speculation that there could be a magnitude 7 quake on the way for Christchurch.

And as for the use of the term “earthquake swarm”, Wikipedia states

Earthquake swarms are one of the events typically preceding eruptions of volcanoes.

Verdict

3 News

Here is a run down of the 5 most important stories on One News and 3 News tonight.  Please leave your comments on the bulletins in the comments below.

ONE News

1. Rena (Amy Kelly)
2. Flooding in Eastern BOP (Daniel Faitaua)
3. Assault in Napier (John Newton)
4. Stabbing in Massey
5. Holiday road toll

3 News

1. Flooding in Eastern BOP (Jane Luscombe)
2. Assault in Napier
3. Middlemore A&E (Brook Sabin, exclusive)
4. South Island New Year’s celebration (Jeff Hampton)
5. Holiday road toll

Commentary

How many times have you heard a news reader say “Is the Rena about to break up”?  One News used this line for the umpteenth time in the 3 month history that the stricken ship has been teetering on the Astrolabe Reef near Tauranga.

More flooding and its impact on holiday makers over New Years and the latest details on the road toll.

Brook Sabin’s behind the scenes look at New Year’s Eve at Middlemore Hospital was as sad as it was insightful.  According to one of the staff, it was the fourth child aged younger than 14 that had been admitted with alcohol poisoning in the last 12 months. 

Verdict

Tie

Here is a run down of the 5 most important stories on One News and 3 News tonight.  Please leave your comments on the bulletins in the comments below.

ONE News

1. Two more charged over Welcome Bay deaths (Amy Kelly)
2. Holiday road toll (John Newton)
3. Sir Graham Henry (Joanna Hunkin)
4. New Year’s Honours list
5. Ralph Hotere recieves Order of New Zealand (Amy Kelly)

3 News

1. New Year’s Eve weather (Laura Frykberg, live cross)
2. Coromandel weather (Jono Hutchison, live cross)
3. Central Otago weather (Leanne Malcolm, live cross)
4. Christchurch New Year’s Eve celebrations
5. Two more charged over Welcome Bay deaths (Jane Luscombe)

Commentary

Very different news bulletins tonight.  One News focused on the road toll and then the New Year’s Honours list while 3 News focused on the weather for New Years and then the new charges laid in the Welcome Bay death case, claiming that one of those was the mother of the two girls that died.

Verdict

Tie

Here is a run down of the 5 most important stories on One News and 3 News tonight.  Please leave your comments on the bulletins in the comments below.

ONE News

1. Holiday road toll
2. Nelson weather (Simon Bradwell, live cross)
3. More arrests in Christmas Day Welcome Bay crash
4. Name suppression lapses for man who drove into girls on footpath
5. Family prepares to bring Tony Williams home

3 News

1. Nelson weather (Rachel Tiffen, live cross)
2. Coromandel weather (Jono Hutchison, live cross)
3. Holiday road toll 
4. Name suppression lapses for man who drove into girls on footpath
5. More arrests in Christmas Day Welcome Bay crash

Commentary

It always amazes me that with a weather event that is affecting so many people, how both networks manage to interview the same person at the same house.  

The rest of the news was almost identical.  One News lead with the holiday road toll but 3 News had footage from the crash in Kapiti while One News had some photographs.  3 News had footage of Fereti Aiono in the docks while One News only had images of the footpath and car that ran over the two girls in Manurewa.

Verdict

Tie

Here is a run down of the 5 most important stories on One News and 3 News tonight.  Please leave your comments on the bulletins in the comments below.

ONE News

1. 16 year old charged over 5yo assault in Turangi (Kim Vinnell)
2. Nelson weather (Simon Bradwell, live cross)
3. Northland weather
4. Weather update (Renee Wright, live cross)
5. Canterbury police shifting to new home

3 News

1. 16 year old charged over 5yo assault in Turangi (Tova O’brien)
2. Australian woman found after crashing car on Christmas day
3. Road toll (Charlotte Shipman)
4. Nelson weather (Rachel Tiffen, live cross)
5. Canterbury weather (Jessica Rowe)

Commentary

The news that a 16 year old has been charged over the sexual assualt and bashing of a 5 year old girl lead both bulletins tonight.  However, on One News, the judge was heard saying:

You will not be photographed. The camera’s are not directed at you or your family.

One News wanted to pixelate his face but were denied this by the judge. However, on 3 News, footage was shown of blurred images of people being asked if there was anyone who would want to say something on behalf of the family.

Verdict

One News