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Concert Bungle: The Sequel - Part 5
Friday, 5 March 2021, 9:09 am | Tom Frewen
Hiring a programme director from a commercial dance and electronic music radio station to take charge of a public broadcaster’s classical music programme, with a view to getting rid of it, is a small but nevetheless typical instance of the shambles ... More >>
Classic Blunder; The Sequel - Part 4
Friday, 26 February 2021, 4:24 pm | Tom Frewen
The sheer folly of Radio New Zealand’s plan to sacrifice half the public broadcaster’s classical music listeners to attract a new audience to a multi-media youth music “brand” was obscured somewhat by the outraged protest after news of Concert FM’s ... More >>
A Classic Blunder: The Sequel - Part 3
Wednesday, 24 February 2021, 10:26 am | Tom Frewen
“Things have changed,” Radio New Zealand’s chief executive, Paul Thompson, advised staff in an email on Wednesday 12 February last year, a week to the day after they were summoned to hear RNZ’s Music Content Director, Willy Macalister, “consult” ... More >>
A Classic Blunder: The Sequel. The Malady Lingers On
Saturday, 13 February 2021, 11:39 am | Tom Frewen
With apologies to Irving Berlin — the song is ended but the malady lingers on. It’s been a year since Radio New Zealand suddenly stopped singing the praises for its proposed new youth music multi-media brand/platform. But uncertainty and disquiet, ... More >>
A Classic Blunder - The Sequel (Part One)
Friday, 5 February 2021, 9:34 am | Tom Frewen
It’s not an anniversary that Radio New Zealand’s board and management will want to celebrate but it was a year ago to the day that they unveiled their new youth music strategy — only to see it crash and burn within a week. Like the proverbial ... More >>
Missing The Point: RNZ Concert Petition Rejected By MPs
Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 11:00 am | Tom Frewen
A call for RNZ’s board and management to be sacked for their botched attempt to use Concert FM’s funding and broadcast frequency for a youth music station has been rejected by Parliament’s Economic Development, Science and Innovation Select ... More >>
RNZ And Concert FM: Still More Bum Notes
Thursday, 25 June 2020, 4:48 pm | Tom Frewen
Days after RNZ’s chief executive Paul Thompson wrote to the Ministry for Culture and Heritage’s chief executive Bernadette Cavanagh inquiring about access to the 102FM network for a proposed multimedia youth music platform, his senior management ... More >>
RNZ And Concert FM: More Bum Notes
Saturday, 20 June 2020, 9:42 am | Tom Frewen
Glaring in its absence from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage’s 46-page document dump on Tuesday, flowing from RNZ’s disastrous decision to replace Concert FM with a multi-media youth music platform, is the ministry’s response — if it exists ... More >>
Concert FM - Timeline Of A Blunder
Friday, 15 May 2020, 12:43 pm | Tom Frewen
The controversy over RNZ’s plan to replace its Concert FM classical music network with a new youth-oriented multi-media music brand looks set to head back to Parliament. A petition seeking the sacking of RNZ’s board is under consideration by Parliament’s ... More >>
Concert FM: Yes/No/Maybe Minister
Thursday, 30 April 2020, 5:19 pm | Tom Frewen
One of the first things that Parliament did when MPs returned to the House on Tuesday was accept a petition calling for the sacking of Radio New Zealand’s board of governors. From long-time Concert FM listener, Rutherford Ward, and carrying 450 signatures, the petition ... More >>
Alternative Voices Online And On Air
Friday, 17 April 2020, 5:35 pm | Tom Frewen
Stopped at a Lockdown Compliance checkpoint on SH1 between Tauranga and Wellington, Simon Bridges could have used the same reason for being out and about that he gave Morning Report on Thursday 8 April — that he was the Leader of the Opposition and ... More >>
Benefit Of The Doubt
Saturday, 11 April 2020, 6:19 pm | Tom Frewen
The benefit of the doubt is a gift that political journalists and commentators reserve primarily for themselves. More >>
Dobbing In, Via Smart Phone
Thursday, 9 April 2020, 9:47 am | Tom Frewen
In the beginning there was the word. In the end there will be the video. Inbetween there is the smart phone. First, though, let’s clear away one of the big questions: why do we need state surveillance when we have neighbours? One of the most depressing ... More >>
Richard Long Gets Another Tough Job
Friday, 30 November 2012, 12:24 pm | Tom Frewen
Although Foreign Affairs Minister, Murray McCully, publicly announced the appointment of his friend, SKY TV lobbyist Tony O'Brien, to the Antarctic New Zealand management board on Wednesday, he kept quiet about appointing another media friend, former Dominion ... More >>
The G.C. — Aussies to see Mozzies
Thursday, 28 June 2012, 12:31 pm | Tom Frewen
Australian television viewers will be the next to judge the merits of The G.C., the controversial reality series about young Maori “working hard and playing even harder” on their “glittering” Gold Coast. More >>
Tom Frewen: The G.C. – Part Three
Monday, 11 June 2012, 3:22 pm | Tom Frewen
In a fresh embarrassment for government funding agency, NZ on Air, one of the four females in the taxpayer-funded reality tv show The G.C. has got herself on to the cover of Swedish lads’ mag Slitz as “Australia’s new supermodel.” More >>
Tom Frewen: GC In Breach Of Funding Agreement?
Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 10:31 am | Tom Frewen
An apparent breach of the funding agreement between the producers of The G.C. and NZ on Air is revealed in papers released under the Official Information Act. More >>
Strongman Mine Doco - Another Disaster at NZ on Air?
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 3:06 pm | Tom Frewen
On Sunday night, courtesy of government broadcast funding agency NZ on Air, taxpayers spent $884,782 for 226,220 TV3 viewers to watch an hour-long documentary about the Strongman mine disaster plus half-an-hour of commercials. More >>
Storm About To Blow Up Over Gold Coast
Thursday, 3 May 2012, 11:57 am | Tom Frewen
Another embarrassing political storm is about engulf the government’s broadcast funding agency, NZ on Air, as last night’s screening of the first episode of “reality” tv show, The G.C. (TV3, 8pm) raises questions about its funding. More >>
Tom Frewen: NZoA Board Members Commission Political Docos
Wednesday, 8 February 2012, 3:10 pm | Tom Frewen
Fresh controversy surrounds Prime Minister John Key's electorate chairman, Stephen McElrea, as documents released under the Official Information Act reveal his involvement in commissioning television productions for screening on TV3. More >>
