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Stories about TVNZ published on StopPress – Aotearoa/New Zealand’s daily news site for the advertising and marketing industry.

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Galleries: TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards
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There were plenty of Kiwi companies who were celebrated for their stellar efforts at the TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards last week (you can check all the winners out here and read the in-depth stories of how they did it in the latest edition of NZ Marketing). And while we know everyone in this industry gets excited about a good dose of cross-organisational stakeholder management, you’re also quite fond of spending hours of work time looking at glamour shots from events. So fill your boots.

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Home, and away from TV3
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When TVNZ nabbed the rights to Home and Away from MediaWorks early last month, it had to find a way to let people know that Alf Stewart’s stalwart old mug would be switching channels.

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Igloo focuses on flexibility in latest campaign
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Sky and TVNZ’s joint pay-TV venture Igloo was announced in late 2011. Its first ads were created by Sugar & Partners and now Brandspank, which has taken over as Igloo’s agency for all marketing communications, has launched a new mockumentary-style TVC campaign that aims to emphasise the flexibility and control the product and its services offer.

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Time to shine (and buy your tickets) as TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards night nears capacity
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The good cutlery is being shined, the wait staff are being put through a rigorous training regime and the country’s top marketers are getting out their lint rollers in preparation for the TVNZ-NZ Marketing Awards at The Langham on 29 August. Tickets have been selling like hotcakes (or, to bring that phrase into the modern era, like iPhones) and there are only a few seats remaining before we put up the ‘full’ sign. So if you want to secure your spot, click here to get yourself a ticket.

Movings & Shakings
Movings/Shakings: 2 August
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Carin Hercock swaps APN for Nielsen, the Red Bulletin takes a new approach, Sim Ahmed and Simon Pound join start-up Vend HQ, Damien Shatford signs with the Sweet Shop, Republik gets some Aussie biz, Big Mobile gets bigger, Rose Matafeo changes channels, Stefan Korn takes Creative HQ reins and APN Outdoor heads to Broadway.

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What’s the story? TVNZ’s Andrew Shaw on TV content trends
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The first instalment of TVNZ’s Future Now series, which aims to showcase some of the company’s big broadcasting brains, Dominic Corry interviewed head of digital Tom Cotter to find out how technology was changing the face of TV. And next on the list is Andrew Shaw, the straight-shooting general manager of commissioning, production and acquisitions, who waxes lyrical about TV content trends and the reinvestment in high concept, cinematic drama series in the US.

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Battle of the building shows: TVNZ’s Dream Home takes the early DIY lead
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According to the latest Paymark figures, DIY action as a result of the buoyant Auckland housing market and the Christchurch rebuild have helped boost overall year on year retail spending in New Zealand by 4.3 percent. And there’s also been a boost in the number of TV shows aiming to tap into this domestic fever, with Mitre 10 Dream Home returning to TV2’s screens last week after a four year hiatus and Aussie powerhouse House Rules starting on TV3 last night. But it’s the homegrown effort that’s so far luring the most Kiwi DIY lovers.

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TVNZ aims to attract more Seven Sharp trialists with ‘No Ordinary Stories’ campaign
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There’s been plenty of ink dedicated to Seven Sharp over the past few months—a bit too much in the opinion of TVNZ chief executive Kevin Kenrick. But far from free-falling, the more informal, magazine-style current affairs show has stabilised to an average audience of around 375,000 viewers. And, in an effort to get more New Zealanders to give the show a go, it has launched a new campaign via its inhouse agency Blacksand.

Movings & Shakings
Movings|Shakings: 7 June
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Rapp welcomes two (and says goodbye to Tribal), specualtion about the new MediaWorks board, another deputy ed for The Listener, APN hunts for new social media editor, Tamati Coffey returns to the nurturing bosom of TVNZ and Adam McGregor takes up some outdoor reins.

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TVNZ’s food focus pays dividends
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Two of the country’s biggest TV shows came to their seasons’ end over the long weekend, with the fourth seasons of MasterChef NZ and My Kitchen Rules (MKR) continuing to bring in the viewers for TVNZ despite competition from MediaWorks’ big show X Factor NZ.

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When Dom met Tom: how technology is changing the face of TV—and TVNZ
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TVNZ has produced the first instalment of its Future Now series, which features a selection of talented humans from inside the building talking about some of the trends in media here and overseas—and, importantly, what they mean for local advertisers and viewers. To kick things off, film critic and entertainment writer Dominic Corry quizzes Tom Cotter, TVNZ’s general manager of digital media, on the way technology is affecting how, when and where we view our content.

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