Media7 teams up with Save TVNZ7 lobby group
It's a last attempt to halt the slide.
Lobby group Save TVNZ7 and the channel’s mediawatch show Media7 have teamed up to get the “save public service television” message out.
They’re running a DIY viral video competition with the winning video to be played on Media7 in a few weeks.
Viewers can vote for their favourite videos from a compilation, with the most “liked” video the ultimate winner.
All the top videos will be compiled into one “super-viral” video to go online and be played at any future Save TVNZ7 events.
Given the channel still has until June next year, that could mean a lot of play time.
Video makers have been cautioned that videos shouldn’t be “foul, abusive, or anti-TVNZ7”.
The Save TVNZ7 group has been started by Myles Thomas and Chris Parry.
The channel’s impending axing has been a hot media topic of late.
Take, the Screen Directors Guild New Zealand’s quarterly publication, goes to town on the issue.
Peter Thompson points to governmental faults: “Labour’s fiscal conservatism and desire not to lock in an ongoing budgetary commitment led to neither the funding for the Charter nor TVNZ6 and 7 being hypothecated/ringfenced. Consequently, they were all on borrowed time.”
Mr Thompson points out that National’s antipathy toward funding TVNZ7 contrasts with its eagerness to “place public funds at the disposal of the private media sector” in allowing MediaWorks a payment deferral.
Meanwhile SDGNZ board member Dan Salmon takes a whip to TVNZ’s new youth-focused channel U.
“[New show Manswers] wasn’t even dumb-arse funny. It was puerile embarrassing shit … it really represents what happens when you take the brakes off.
“At the risk of sounding like a dinosaur, I believe we need a state-owned broadcaster now more than ever, even just for political leverage against commercially-owned networks.
“If (and I do think it’s an if) National gets in [at the next election], they will start to sell the family silver. They have made no secret of this.”
Save TVNZ7’s online petition has 1293 signatures at last count.
NBR staff
Wed, 20 Apr 2011
Wed, 20 Apr 2011
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Media7 teams up with Save TVNZ7 lobby group
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