Archive for the ‘Broadcasting and Media’ Category

Outspoken ex-Green MP Nandor Tanczos joins the team of TV3 bloggers to write weekly for 3news.co.nz on environmental and ecological issues. Tanczos, a social ecologist and Rastafarian of Hungarian and African descent, has been a businessman and a beggar, a legislator and an outlaw, and is currently a community educator, freelance writer and orator and can now add blogger ... Full story

Interested in witnessing the awesome force of destruction? Then TV3 has just what you need - Destroyed in Seconds, premiering its damaging first season on Monday, March 22nd at 7:30pm on 3. In each episode of Destroyed in Seconds, 3 News Sports Reporter Andrew Gourdie will bring viewers clip after clip of the most shocking destructions ever captured on ... Full story

TVNZ’s Breakfast audience has enjoyed an immediate and noticeable boost since Paul Henry came back from holiday on the 1st of March. In the two weeks since Paul’s return, Breakfast has averaged 143,625* viewers every morning. This is a significant gain on the previous fortnight’s average that showed 119,008* people watching every morning. It is also well ... Full story

Campbell Live has had another excellent ratings week, winning both the 18-49 and 25-54 demographics against Close Up. For the week 8-12 March, Campbell Live averaged a 20.9% audience share 18-49 compared with Close Up’s 17.6% In Close Up’s target audience of 25-54 year olds, Campbell Live also won with a 21.1% share compared with Close Up’s 20.7%. Even more pleasing; ... Full story

TV3's new weekly political current affairs show "The Nation" will premiere on Saturday March 20. The show will be hosted by TV3's former political editor Stephen Parker and will "focus on the major players and forces which shape New Zealand." The Nation will air on TV3 at 11AM Saturday's and repeat 8AM Sundays. Full story

The New Zealand Herald is reporting that there is a possibility of TVNZ and TV3's 6PM news programmes being shortened to 30 minutes. What do you think of this? Results: 65 % of respondents voted to keep the news in its current full hour format. Full story

Hollywood insider Nelson Aspen is joining TVNZ’s Good Morning. Speaking from Los Angeles, Aspen told Dan News how excited he is to be joining the Good Morning team. “I love dishing up celebrity news with friendly folks and, as a morning person, I'm especially pleased to know my kiwi friends are starting their day with me”. Nelson Aspen has been reporting ... Full story

American talk show 'Ellen' has a new timeslot. The popular talk show which currently screens in the early afternoon will screen at 5PM from Monday. The move will put the show up against Home and Away which has proven to be a popular lead-in to the news hour on TV3. - Dan News Full story

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 ... Full story

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