(all in all..if you cut the crap..you’d get about twenty minutes from any hour-long bulletin now..so a much ‘tighter’ 30 min bulletin..
..containing ‘real’ news..cd/wd be a blessing in disguise..
at the very least..we’d be spared some of that cheery-chappys’ mindless blathering..eh..?..)
“..Television New Zealand is looking at radical solutions to trim $30 million to $40 million from budgets – including halving the 6pm news hour.
It is understood that TVNZ has sounded out TV3 advising: “If you go half an hour, we’d go half an hour too.”
“It would be a question of who blinks first,” said a TVNZ source who would not be named.
The idea of halving the news hour – creating a 30-minute bulletin followed by Close Up or Campbell Live – has been considered plenty of times..”
(and while they are at it..they can stop treating us like we are target-viewers of playskool..
..and you really only need one person to read the news…eh..?
there’s a big ‘saving’..just there..
y’know..in the course of my days’ work..i see/read a lot of media..
and really..both of our hour-long main news bulletins..are far from anything to be ‘proud’ of..eh..
..and they often/mostly fail/fall at the task of being barely serviceable..)
go to source/story>>Media: News half-hour an option for TVNZ – Business – NZ Herald News
