Good riddance TVNZ

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#312748 14-May-2024 11:18

With the end of Fair Go there is absolutely nothing remaining on New Zealand TV that has any value or interest for me. Even the 'news' is too dumbed down to bother with. I already stream most of my content. Now I will stream all of it. The only thing still lingering that is worth bothering to glance at is the Repair Shop and that I can easily get (without the commercials) on-line.

The decision of TVNZ to eat its babies is unfathomable to me. The only worthwhile shows they still had have all been eviscerated, supposedly for financial reasons. They could have easily been paid for by emptying a dozen 'reality' rubbish bins.

For the record, I am elderly, supposedly TVNZ's only remaining audience segment. What a lame, pathetic, hopeless excuse for a television service we have here in New Zealand!

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#3230201 14-May-2024 11:21

Wouldn't be surprised if all New Zealand TV services eventually get washed away nor would I care. I haven't watched a scheduled TV program since early 2000s, now I spend my time on streaming platforms and Youtube.

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#3230205 14-May-2024 11:26

The TVNZ news is awful. Newshub was worse and I am certain that the incoming Stuff produced "news" on TV3 will be the worst of the lot.

It is a real shame that we can't have a mainstream media news bulletin that is simply current events reported, without the theatre, without the presenters making themselves part of the news, without the explainers, without the editorialising. Just. The. News.

The olden day news was as dry as a bone. Phillip Sherry delivering it impeccably.

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#3230206 14-May-2024 11:28

Country Calendar - that's all that's left on there for me now.

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#3230212 14-May-2024 11:34

Ge0rge: Country Calendar - that's all that's left on there for me now.

Thank you - yes! It is still a cracker and I suspect is good enough to attract ratings and advertising revenue to keep itself going. I hope so. The story on Mason Brothers honey the other night was a classic kiwi story.

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#3230219 14-May-2024 11:44

But think of the older people that can't/won't do online streaming services...

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#3230221 14-May-2024 11:47

The only people I know who still watch TV OTA are my 65+ yo parents. I haven't watched TV in .... really since... mid 2000s I guess. I did the PVR thing back in the day and would record some stuff, use comskip to remove the commercials. But started experimenting with hulu/netflix 15 years ago.

My parents do watch Netflix etc (my 65 yo mum way more than my 77 yo dad). But they always have trackside on and watch those silly game shows like the chase (if that's still going). TV in NZ Just has always been pretty crap TBH. I can think of 2 great shows(outrageous fortune and westside) , and one ok show (almight johnsons). the rest... yeah nah. crap.

I don't know anyone who watches tvnz/tv3 on demand or whatever they have.

Its all youtube/disney+/netflix.

I too not sure how long FTA tv will last, its totally a dying format. And its not a format that can directly translate to streaming. You could do a news youtube show for instances, but that's a show. how to you transfer a network? You cant? (or at least the audience just isn't there).

I can see stuff making sense with the news, its would just be a broadcast service for them, but they will rebroadcast/chop up onto their website/youtube, so that does make sense. fair go... maybe something similar?

Now youtubes getting a bit greedy with their ads, I'm watching less youtube. 60 sec ads are just too long and Ill just go watch a different platform.

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#3230223 14-May-2024 11:48

Reven is an xmltv legend - I can attest to that!

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#3230224 14-May-2024 11:53

xmlTVNZ, ah the good old days. that fall apart in may 2010 when skys lawyers sent a letter to me (I remember the date as it was a month before I was getting married). but it was the end of the line anyway. was silly timing on their part. all that data was then on the freeview feeds and the medium was dying.

NZ tv only had 4 channels really, we barely got any good shows, the shows we did were often 3 or 4 years behind.

I don't even have a connected aerial in my house. ripped it out during a renovation.

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#3230229 14-May-2024 12:07

reven:

xmlTVNZ, ah the good old days. that fall apart in may 2010 when skys lawyers sent a letter to me (I remember the date as it was a month before I was getting married). but it was the end of the line anyway. was silly timing on their part. all that data was then on the freeview feeds and the medium was dying.

NZ tv only had 4 channels really, we barely got any good shows, the shows we did were often 3 or 4 years behind.

I don't even have a connected aerial in my house. ripped it out during a renovation.

I used to get most stuff off satellite. I put up an aerial when TVNZ and TV3 started broadcasting some programming in 5.1. Then I discovered IPTV and the wind twisted my aerial around. I still keep satellite as backup.

I don't subscribe to any paid services as I have found I just don't make enough use of them. All my streaming is overseas FTA. That is more than enough content to keep me occupied. For NZ news I reluctantly rely on RNZ and Newshub.

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#3230247 14-May-2024 12:51

The sooner all taxpayer funded tv/radio is killed off the better. It made sense 50 years ago, now it's just a waste of my money.

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#3230250 14-May-2024 13:07

YEAH!

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#3230382 14-May-2024 15:44

Ge0rge: Country Calendar - that's all that's left on there for me now.

If only they'd bring back "A Dog Show" too 😁

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#3230385 14-May-2024 15:52

Lias:
The sooner all taxpayer funded tv/radio is killed off the better. It made sense 50 years ago, now it's just a waste of my money.

Where’s the ‘thumbs down’ when you need it?!

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#3230403 14-May-2024 16:09

Ge0rge: Country Calendar - that's all that's left on there for me now.

Me also. Totally agree with you.

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#3230417 14-May-2024 16:12

Lias:

The sooner all taxpayer funded tv/radio is killed off the better. It made sense 50 years ago, now it's just a waste of my money.

So you'd be happy to only watch US centric shows produced by multi-nationals?

Personally I think we need to double down on TVNZ/RNZ to have a true PBS model more like ABC or BBC. We need local stories. NZ On Air is a big help, for example Dark Matter on Sky Open, but we need local news and current affairs coverage.

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