2012-01-26 10:05:13 // Siobhan Leathley
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Despite the spread of technologies such as MySky and Tivo, designed to cut out ad breaks, TV ad revenue continues to increase.
2011-12-13 12:59:07 // Idealog
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Ziln is bringing on-demand TV to Sony televisions, marking an expansion into a "full screen lounge room experience".
2011-11-25 15:33:44 // Cath Winks & Esther Goh
Sky and TVNZ have, at last, confirmed they are indeed launching a joint pay TV service – as predicted weeks ago over at our sister site StopPress.
2011-10-11 13:56:47 // Cath Winks
Maori Television has officially topped the ratings stakes as the most watched free-to-air broadcaster for Rugby World Cup 2011.
2011-09-26 16:17:36 // Esther Goh
Well-loved Kiwi toy Buzzy Bee is soon to be brought to screens around the world, while ushering in a new concept in children’s interactive entertainment at the same time.
2011-08-19 09:54:42 // StopPress Team
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Rawdon Christie and Toni Street will be the faces of Breakfast on Saturday mornings from next month.
2011-08-09 16:31:00 // Idealog
Telly executives are touting healthy growth figures in the year to date and they're counting on revenues to rise further with key events such as Rugby World Cup and the election still to come.
2010-10-21 11:04:38 // Martyn Pepperell
// Idealog #30: features
Travelling the world, combining exotic cultures with classic Kiwi tunes—it's Nick Dwyer's dream job, and National Geographic is among his many fans. By Martyn Pepperell.
2010-07-08 11:29:26 // Matt Cooney
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You know the television scene is getting weird when TVNZ launches a new channel on Sky’s pay platform. But Eric Kearley, the broadcaster’s new head of digital, reckons it heralds a new age of co-operation in New Zealand media. Others say TVNZ is already irrelevant. So is Kearley just rearranging the deckchairs?
2010-06-29 15:42:14 // Design Daily Team
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The main title sequence, the credits at the beginning of a film, has evolved from the plain old static card to - in some cases - a dynamic piece of art in its own right.
2010-05-20 10:39:00 // Denis Welch
// Idealog #27: features
Fresh off the festival success of its short film, production company Sticky Pictures works the room at Sundance. Denis Welch asks about Robert Redford, raising cash and working with kids and animals
2010-03-12 13:11:10 // Florence Noble
// Idealog #26: features
From humble beginnings living on expired two-minute noodles to the heady heights of TV3 comedy 7 Days, the founders of production company thedownlowconcept have built a business out of taking the piss. By Florence Noble.
2009-11-30 10:39:17 // Florence Noble
// Idealog #24: now
Chelsie Preston Crayford started her acting career with a chocolate bribe. Now she needs no convincing.
2009-11-27 09:36:46 // Amanda Cropp
// Idealog #24: features
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Reality TV is old-school: Natural History New Zealand has been doing it for decades, bringing the weird, wild and wonderful into our living rooms. They’ve learned what viewers like, how to build happy relationships with US media monoliths and proved there’s more to New Zealand than birds. Amanda Cropp meets NHNZ’s wild things. Plus upping the wow factor and an outsider’s view.
2009-11-13 09:32:40 // Florence Noble
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When Jaquie Brown frets on television about the shape of her head, she has Gerard Johnstone to thank. The writer, director and editor of The Jaquie Brown Diaries spends much of his time plotting his star’s most uncomfortable adventures—and the rest getting them to air. Florence Noble—part of the new series cast—tracks his journey from stunt school drop-out to creating our funniest sitcom.
2009-08-17 08:55:56 // Deirdre Robert
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Philip Hunt, aka ‘Studio AKA’, chats to us about bringing children’s books to life and the stiff competition he faces from his own daughter.
2009-08-16 21:48:52 // Deirdre Robert
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He likes to lie down but it’s a good thing he was upright when we spoke to him. Semi-Permanent MC Te Radar shares his unique analogies on creativity.
2009-06-20 14:01:37 // Jason Kemp
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Until very recently the trade-off between richness and reach with media and communications tools on the internet has seen mixed results but we are very close to some exciting breakthroughs.
This means news is old when it gets through the media process as savvy consumers have already engaged to some extent in a myriad of ways (mostly online) and this alters the secondary ripples and impacts as well.
2009-02-20 09:41:02 // Ben Kepes
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Russell Brown is a blogger, a journalist and (according to traditional media) an ‘internet specialist’. So what are the trend that are at the forefront of publishing at the moment?
