TVNZ
$3+ million credit card spend up by TVNZ staff
Alice Neville at the The New Zealand Herald has obtained figures released under the Official Information Act which show $3,183,423.08 was spent on company credit cards in the past six months.
However, their maths is misleading:
"More than half of TVNZ's 900 employees are issued with credit cards, with the average monthly spend almost $11,000. The total spending of chief executive Rick Ellis, the chief financial officer Rodney Parker, head of advertising Dave Walker, head of programming Jane Wilson and head of news and current affairs Anthony Flannery was $88,000 over the six months."
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Shake Up At TVNZ?
This was reported yesterday in the New Zealand Herald and I don't know if it was mentioned on Throng at all.
"Television New Zealand is looking at radical solutions to trim $30 million to $40 million from budgets - including halving the 6pm news hour".
Doing this would not be taking TVNZ into the future, it would be taking us back into TV One's News past.
And that's not all...
This was reported today in the same newspaper.
"TVNZ could be rearranged to provide separate commercial and public service broadcasting roles under a new proposal being investigated.
Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman has asked TVNZ chairman Sir John Anderson to look at splitting its broadcasting roles and funding requirements, The Dominion Post reported.
Read moreOh Snap, Relax TVNZ you're still stupid, but TiVo is dying everywhere.
There's more bad news for TVNZ today, the parent company of the TiVo technology it's purchased in partnership with Kerry Stoke's '7 Media Group' reported it lost 730,000 consumers during the past year (a 22% decline).
TVNZ 6 Forms A Partnership With TrustPower Community Awards
TVNZ 6 is delighted to be partnering with the TrustPower Community Awards in 2010 to bring remarkable stories of volunteers all over the country to our screens.
TVNZ 6 has started production on Volunteer Power, presented by Julia Wright and Jim Mora. The series will tell the stories of visionary and award-winning projects operating in kiwi communities for the proven benefit of kiwi communities - fuelled by the boundless energy of community volunteers.
Cameras start rolling next weekend, March 12, at the TrustPower 2009 National Community Awards, to be held in the Nelson Tasman region.
Read moreHow many people own a TiVo?
Not many according to a report in the Herald on Sunday. In fact, there are estimates as low as only 2,000. That's fairly dismal for a post launch figure of a device that TVNZ spent approximately $10m on.
The decision by TVNZ to spend $10m on TiVo was always touted as a strong move towards the long-term future of state tv and free-to-air television but as is usually the case with "New Zealand's leading digital media company", it was a few years too late.
By the end of 2009 there were 144,148 subscriptions for Sky's alternative MySkyHDi PVR. An impressive number only four years after its first generation model launched on the 5th of December 2005.
Read morePacific TV "Goes Live" courtesy of TVNZ and Air New Zealand
Pacific nations are benefiting from broadcast technology and equipment donated by TVNZ and carried to the Islands by Air New Zealand.
TV stations in Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands have been donated TVNZ’s live broadcasting kits, which the broadcaster has recently replaced as a result of the migration to digital television.
Air New Zealand volunteered free seats for TVNZ staff to transport the equipment and train their Pacific colleagues in live broadcasting techniques, and free freight for the equipment.
TVNZ’s Pacific Correspondent Barbara Dreaver says the mission was incredibly exciting and emotional for all concerned.
“They were unbelievably thrilled to have the gear, and very nervous at first. But they did a beautiful job and put their new skills to work immediately in some important breaking stories,” she said.
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