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#3201057 28-Feb-2024 20:55

Geektastic: I can’t think of anything that happens here that many world news organisations would find it terribly necessary to pay to report.

Surely the A&P shows😁

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3201133 28-Feb-2024 22:31

MikeB4:

Geektastic: I can’t think of anything that happens here that many world news organisations would find it terribly necessary to pay to report.

Surely the A&P shows😁

There was a wedding as well.

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#3201138 28-Feb-2024 22:50

Geektastic: I can’t think of anything that happens here that many world news organisations would find it terribly necessary to pay to report.

They aren't interested in the news.

They are interested in keeping you on their platform to drive revenue and this is one way to do it.

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#3201139 28-Feb-2024 22:53

SaltyNZ:

MikeB4:

@Handle9 Alphabets revenue in 2023 was circa $US300 billion. Those figures you quote are insignificant . Their bottom line is circa $US80billion.

Happy to take $870M off their hands if they don't need it

Yeah. It's a wild take.

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#3201222 28-Feb-2024 23:29

wellygary:

Handle9:

Radio has a very different, and much cheaper, business model. Radio stations generally remain profitable unless they fill them up with "stars."

Places like Newstalk are making hay off the huge growth in "boomer" retirement... Every second Ad is for a "luxury residential village" in salubrious places like Milford or Orewa :)

And for those not quite their yet the other ones are all about "profiting through property investment"....

They've probably got a few more years to run very happily , but in the long term (20-30yrs) its a declining market....

It is ironic that radio in NZ is still so successful financially, considering NZ still doesn't have DAB like the UK for example. IMO it is only a matter of time before RNZ has advertising.

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#3201224 28-Feb-2024 23:57

freitasm:
MikeB4: ... They last time I checked maybe a year ago it was mostly rubbish.

Oh, I have news for you (no pun intended).

It hasn't changed.

If it has changed in any way, it has only changed for the worse. See below ...

richms: Walking is a bit optimistic. Dragging itself along with one hand is closer to it.

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#3201234 29-Feb-2024 07:08

mattwnz:

It is ironic that radio in NZ is still so successful financially, considering NZ still doesn't have DAB like the UK for example. IMO it is only a matter of time before RNZ has advertising.

DAB was trialled here a few years ago but was never looked at as a serious option. I believe it had something to do with the population being sparsely distributed over a geographically challenging country, compared to somewhere like the UK (which is mostly fairly flat by comparison).

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#3201256 29-Feb-2024 08:38

quickymart:

mattwnz:

It is ironic that radio in NZ is still so successful financially, considering NZ still doesn't have DAB like the UK for example. IMO it is only a matter of time before RNZ has advertising.

DAB was trialled here a few years ago but was never looked at as a serious option. I believe it had something to do with the population being sparsely distributed over a geographically challenging country, compared to somewhere like the UK (which is mostly fairly flat by comparison).

I always thought DAB was satellite driven? If so wouldnt that be a plus for NZ?

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#3201262 29-Feb-2024 08:48

Bluntj:

quickymart:

mattwnz:

It is ironic that radio in NZ is still so successful financially, considering NZ still doesn't have DAB like the UK for example. IMO it is only a matter of time before RNZ has advertising.

DAB was trialled here a few years ago but was never looked at as a serious option. I believe it had something to do with the population being sparsely distributed over a geographically challenging country, compared to somewhere like the UK (which is mostly fairly flat by comparison).

I always thought DAB was satellite driven? If so wouldnt that be a plus for NZ?

I think it's terrestrial based not satellite.

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#3201264 29-Feb-2024 08:52

With the statement of 'moving to digital delivery' I wouldn't be surprised to see the terrestrial broadcasts of THREE in the future go dark. That will leave us with two channels (we don't really count PRIME now, do we?)

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#3201269 29-Feb-2024 08:56

networkn:

MikeB4:

..

Surely the A&P shows😁

There was a wedding as well.

And a rodent in a supermarket.

Maybe our rodents need to be bigger?

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#3201271 29-Feb-2024 08:59

mattwnz:

It is ironic that radio in NZ is still so successful financially, considering NZ still doesn't have DAB like the UK for example.

Radio in NZ is not successfully financially, at least not any more. There are only two major commercial operators; Mediaworks is on the brink of collapse despite having strong brands and the majority of the audience share, and NZME will be in major trouble when their rapidly aging audience shuffle off their mortal coil.

IMO it is only a matter of time before RNZ has advertising.

RNZ's charter forbids advertising except for a few select entertainment related podcasts. That charter is politically untouchable even by a right wing government. If you need evidence of that then just look at the massive outcry when RNZ's management tried to move Concert off the FM band.

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#3201292 29-Feb-2024 09:43

@Networkn we must never forget the wedding or that person that wore that thing that one time. The global implications of such a slip up would catastrophic.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#3201307 29-Feb-2024 10:06

trig42:

Maybe our rodents need to be bigger?

Bigger enough to be, hmmm, unusually sized, perhaps?

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#3201314 29-Feb-2024 10:15

ZollyMonsta:

With the statement of 'moving to digital delivery' I wouldn't be surprised to see the terrestrial broadcasts of THREE in the future go dark. That will leave us with two channels (we don't really count PRIME now, do we?)

Isn't Sky One supposed to be just the best thing? (insert sarcasm thingie). I have never watched it since Prime fell into the hands of the evil empire.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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