Comments on: On Your Marks, Get Set…. http://www.janetwilson.co.nz/2009/09/on-your-marks-get-set/ Janet provides media training and media strategies, crisis communications management and ongoing media advice Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:04:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Did you see the one about . . . « Homepaddock http://www.janetwilson.co.nz/2009/09/on-your-marks-get-set/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Did you see the one about . . . « Homepaddock Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:34:05 +0000 http://www.janetwilson.co.nz/?p=241#comment-45 [...] On your marks get set at Bespoke Media Training where Bill Ralston finds TVNZ’s negotiating skills aren’t what they should be. [...] [...] On your marks get set at Bespoke Media Training where Bill Ralston finds TVNZ’s negotiating skills aren’t what they should be. [...]

]]> By: Cactus Kate http://www.janetwilson.co.nz/2009/09/on-your-marks-get-set/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Cactus Kate Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:08:06 +0000 http://www.janetwilson.co.nz/?p=241#comment-44 Having said that the Commonwealth Games is crap. Who cares? Having said that the Commonwealth Games is crap. Who cares?

]]> By: Cactus Kate http://www.janetwilson.co.nz/2009/09/on-your-marks-get-set/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Cactus Kate Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:07:35 +0000 http://www.janetwilson.co.nz/?p=241#comment-43 They would if it wasn't there and available. The number 1 thing I loathe about Hong Kong isn't the smelly dry fish, the pollution or being walked into by silly small women - it is the lack of television coverage (even the pay stuff) of sporting events. Thank your lucky stars NZ that there is only one PPV provider and it is reasonably priced. Try having 2 that aren't reasonably priced, completely unresponsive and don't give a s**t about providing white folk with white folks sport! They would if it wasn’t there and available.

The number 1 thing I loathe about Hong Kong isn’t the smelly dry fish, the pollution or being walked into by silly small women – it is the lack of television coverage (even the pay stuff) of sporting events.

Thank your lucky stars NZ that there is only one PPV provider and it is reasonably priced. Try having 2 that aren’t reasonably priced, completely unresponsive and don’t give a s**t about providing white folk with white folks sport!

]]> By: Wilson Owen http://www.janetwilson.co.nz/2009/09/on-your-marks-get-set/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Wilson Owen Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:28:22 +0000 http://www.janetwilson.co.nz/?p=241#comment-40 There must be a fairly convincing case nowadays that pay television is destroying major sport. As the most popular sports grab the squillions of dollars generated by Pay TV - the popularity of theses sports has waned. Remember the old days when a Ranfurly Shield challenge could shut down a province for a couple of days? Or when the country shut down for a Rugby Test?. These days only a third of the population can watch them live - mainstream news media which doesn't own the live broadcast rights but owns the country's news audiences ( TV1 & TV3) doesn't hype the matches quite so much - the net result - most people don't give a stuff anymore. There must be a fairly convincing case nowadays that pay television is destroying major sport. As the most popular sports grab the squillions of dollars generated by Pay TV – the popularity of theses sports has waned. Remember the old days when a Ranfurly Shield challenge could shut down a province for a couple of days? Or when the country shut down for a Rugby Test?. These days only a third of the population can watch them live – mainstream news media which doesn’t own the live broadcast rights but owns the country’s news audiences ( TV1 & TV3) doesn’t hype the matches quite so much – the net result – most people don’t give a stuff anymore.

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