Stories about TVNZ published on StopPress – Aotearoa/New Zealand’s daily news site for the advertising and marketing industry.
TVNZ Ondemand is coming to a PlayStation3 (PS3) near you, with gamers now able to watch TVNZ programmes through their consoles in their living rooms, rather than through their computers in a dark hovel surrounded by empty chip packets and coke cans.
The geeks inherited the Earth (well, the StopPress comment wall) after the nzherald.co.nz announced a “strategic change in direction by moving away from page impressions as a predominant measure of a site’s success and towards metrics that provide greater transparency to advertisers”. The comments flowed, the debate raged and the acronyms came thick and fast. A few doubts were raised about the motivations behind the site’s new approach to measurement, but the Herald also had plenty of friends, including a few in high places, like the national broadcaster.
Starcom MediaVest group executive vice president Paul Maher, who has had a long history with the company having been general manager TVNZ agency sales around ten years ago and being involved in late 2006 in helping develop the company’s strategic plan, “Inspiring New Zealanders On Every Screen”, has been named TVNZ’s head of sales and marketing.
TVNZ has released its ratecard for the July – September 2010 period, with TV ONE rates rising by two percent and TV2 up six percent on the back of improved numbers. But not everyone appears to be on the same optimistic page as the national broadcaster, if the apparent stoush with media agency OMD is anything to go by.
Virgin sacrifices on the rise in Auckland
Whether it took place in the McDonalds carpark, behind the bikesheds or on your wedding night with candles, rose petals and Kenny G, the first time is a big occasion. And TVNZ’s new online social experiment aims to find out a little bit more about the nation’s sexual history by getting users to plot the location where they lost (or perhaps misplaced) their virginity.
There’s nothing quite like a very public dog-fight to garner attention. But not an animal dog-fight mind you.
On Sunday, Colenso BBDO launched another clever visual spectacle on public eyes with a re-enactment of a WW11 dogfight in honour of the epic new TV ONE miniseries, The Pacific. The ten-part mini-series focuses on the stories of three marines during America’s battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II.
Aside from these, this, and this, StopPress loves nothing more than data. And we’re particularly fond of hard data. Of course, the brilliant thing about data is that it can be used selectively to show how good you are, and how bad other things, like competitors, are. And there’s almost no better example of this than the tit for tatting that is news ratings data in New Zealand.
TVNZ and SKY are showing they have plenty of heart when it comes to local television content, with the announcement of a new television channel.
Jason Paris has spoken out about his new appointment as chief executive of TV3 and C4.
In an interview with StopPress, Paris describes the move as exciting and a natural career progression.
Breaking news: Jason Paris, the TVNZ marketing director, has announced he’s leaving TVNZ – for TV3. In an email to “commercial partners” TVNZ says:”He has accepted the position of Chief Executive of TVWorks, the owners and operators of TV3 and C4.
We are all delighted for him, but are …
Who it’s for: TVNZ’s launch of Masterchef NZ
Why we like it: A dash of culinary arrogance and head shaking from the judges, a pinch of sweaty anguish from the competitors and slow motion shots of exploding blenders and flaming pans makes for a top notch …
An essential element of TV One’s new show Hung can now be seen in 3D, but only if you cop a glance (or, for committed violators, a feel) of the rather risqué billboard, which was recently erected on Victoria St in Auckland in an attempt to get mass market penetration.
Those fortunate enough to still be at home watching television every weekday morning will have a new face to contend with in 2010 after it was announced Hadyn Jones will replace Steve Gray as co-host of Good Morning, joining Sarah Bradley and Brendon Pongia on the couch to discuss things like gardening and emotions.
With the new news year unofficially restarting today and the A-list hosts from both networks back punching the clock, it’s the perfect time to delve into the murky depths of 2009’s news ratings data.
Annoyed by the dearth of commercials on TVNZ7? Well, be annoyed no more ad lovers, because Top Shelf, the production company behind Media 7, is remedying the shortage by making a show that focuses on the advertising industry.
First there’s a press release from TV3: “November has seen Nightline pull away from its competitor TV ONE’s Tonight in all key demographics.”
Then there’s one from TVNZ: “The latest news numbers show Sunrise lost a quarter of its audience in November while NZI Business and Breakfast continued to edge ahead.”
Last week, Matt Blomfield, Hell Pizza comms manager and co-owner of Pitch Televsion, told StopPress a new reality TV show that pitted young advertising creatives against each other in a series of pitching battles had been commissioned by TVNZ and would screen on Saturday nights at 7.30pm starting in May.
Mad Men ticks all the fictional advertising boxes on TV. And now Pitch, a new TV show that’s just been commissioned by TVNZ will focus on the ‘reality’.
For those who missed out, here’s your chance to feast your eyes on all the results from the year’s biggest event in marketing.
This week from the Media Counsel: Christmas looms. But can Kiwi wallets be pried open?
With an array of animated whizzbangery, a smoke machine, a sultry female robot voice from the future, some impressive ratings data and a fair degree of warranted braggadocio, TVNZ announced their new season line-up tonight.
TVNZ has recently launched its new business marketing/sales website tvnzplanit.co.nz to help agency folk (and advertisers, if they’re that way inclined) access TV and online sales opportunities.
Thousands of middle-aged woman, several politicians and an array of media darlings are reeling at the news that TVNZ has decided not to commission Dancing With The Stars in 2010.
A TVNZ statement says the decision was made because the current market conditions do not support such an expensive show …
We’re quite partial to lookalikes here at StopPress and what better way to celebrate 40 years of national news than with a comparative picture of Joe 90 and his newsreading doppelgänger Bill Toft.
Joe 90
Bill Toft
It’s probably quite difficult for the instant gratification, on-demand, up-to-the-minute generation to believe, but back in the mists of time there only used to be one way to watch the news: on the telly.
Les Mills' Bodyvive
A sell-out crowd of 370 industry juggernauts donned their glad rags and ventured to the Crowne Plaza on Friday night to honour this year’s best marketers and engage in what can only be described as feverish mingling at the new and improved 2009 TVNZ New Zealand …
A breakfast TV host
Mr WilberforceIn a media coup TVNZ has snared the star of the new movie by Jonathan King, Under the Mountain.
She knows a heck of a lot about newspapers and radio, now recently retired Joan Withers is stepping into the director’s boardroom at TVNZ. She replaces Phillip Melchior whose term recently expired.
Withers was chief executive of Fairfax Media from 2005 to June this year, when she retired from …
Numbers are crunched by The Media Counsel this week: The % of NZ’s who travelled to get away from someone The % of people downloading Amazon e-books instead of paper The number of software apps in Microsoft Office Starter 2010
Only a week old, the TVNZ application for the iPhone is the number one downloaded free app in the NZ iTunes store.
Apple iPhone users now have access to the whole of www.tvnz.co.nz.