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for New Zealand.
BREAKING
– John Campbell joins RNZ – should the boycott of TV3 end and
what is next for TV3?
Martyn
Bradbury
6
August, 2015
Marvellous
news that John
Campbell has joined Radio NZ as their drive host, another
reason to tune into RNZ…
John Campbell will present a new drive-time news show on Radio New Zealand.
He will be joining the station in September and is involved in the development of the new programme.
…with
him ensconced within a nation wide medium RNZ have gained a critical
voice who has actual public wide charisma and the talent to draw
people onto a station that at times sounds like it’s being
broadcast out of Wellington from some time warp stuck in the
1950s.
Pity
Mora is still hosting the Panel, I might have been able to return to
it otherwise.
I’m
not sure of that answer.
A
couple of nights ago I was attacked on Twitter by disgruntled TV3
staff claiming that the sacking of a well known Producer as part of
cut backs due to the meltdown in ratings was my fault…
…note
it’s not the TV3 Management who have killed off the most critical
voice of the Government on TV for political reasons, oh no. It’s my
fault for stating that we should boycott TV3 for their bias.
Angus
then goes onto say…
…the
sacking of one well to do News Producer is equitable to the tactic by
Talley’s to starve 5000 children in their 2012 industrial fight.
Charming.
The
Producer in question is of course is the brilliant John Hale, whom I
have an enormous amount of respect for and whom I wish no ill harm
to. I respect many of the talented journalists on TV3. Mike
McRoberts, Hillary Barry, Paula Penfold, Lisa Owen and Torben Akle do
incredible work, but then again they also have Brooke Sabin that
awful Tova O’Brien and the homicidal chipmunk on a meth
bender, Government script writer, Patrick Gower.
There
are journalists who do great work on TV3, and I mean them no ill will
to them or their craft, but the pro National Party agenda of TV3
management means that work is under cut by the knowledge that any
journalism that hurts Key too much will get pulled.
Can
anyone honestly watch The Nation any longer and believe it’s not
guest edited by Steven Joyce?
So
should the boycott against TV3 end?
Maybe
it won’t matter. Whispers are currently circulating that the
American vulture fund that has bought MediaWorks – Oaktree, are
quietly manoeuvring to cut off TV3 from the company and flog it off
to the highest bidder. The money making part of MediaWorks is their
radio advertising (the loss of Campbell to Radio NZ will be a
particularly harsh blow), their TV branch is hurting and the meltdown
in ratings is hurrying along the desire to sell it off.
If
TV3 management can’t reverse the ratings situation by the end of
the year, it will be all over rover.
John
Campbell joins Radio New Zealand
6
August, 2015
John
Campbell will present a new drive-time news show on Radio New
Zealand.
He
will be joining the station in September and is involved in the
development of the new programme.
"Radio
New Zealand's commitment to professional journalism that questions,
illuminates, celebrates and holds to account, is an immensely
valuable resource in the life of this country," he told Radio
New Zealand.
"My
job is to hold to those core values, to continue that commitment to
the highest quality journalism, but also to expand our reach beyond
the confines of radio and into a world I could only have dreamed of
when I began as a journalist."
Checkpoint
host Mary Wilson has also been promoted to a senior news management
role, while her co-host Jim Mora will focus on presenting The Panel.
"I've
been talking about it with Paul Thompson for a while, even before
John came into the mix," Mora told RNZ.
"We
have new kinds of interactive ideas, listener-driven, that we want to
develop."
Radio
New Zealand CEO Paul Thompson said Campbell was an "outstanding
broadcaster" would bring new audiences to the station.
Supporters
have been quick to celebrate the news on social media, posting
congratulations to the broadcaster.
Bloody marvellous you lovely man @JohnJCampbellhttp://t.co/thgM4dmHz5
— Hamish Keith (@hamish_keith) August 6, 2015
John Campbell joining Radio NZ is bloody great news:http://t.co/sDL9hnwDQl
— Eddy Dever (@EddyDever) August 6, 2015
john campbell is joining
radio new zealand. this makes me infinitely happy ??????
— David Farrier (@davidfarrier) August 6, 2015
From
Radio New Zealand
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