RADIO GAGA - IT DOESN'T NEED SAVING

We are amazed at the unguided hysteria around RNZ and its future. A facebook page screamin out for RNZ to be "Saved" - duh. It just needs changed.
Its simple, it has to make savings like all government departments. And its interesting to note that the staff of RNZ are now straying into breaching the State services code of ethics which is very very clear that bagging the government and making political statements about your own ministry is an big no no.
RNZ needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the new decade. Do away with the froth and the pious pomp and concentrate on good news and info - take the midnight to dawn show - it could be easily automated - simple.
And there would be plenty of other ways to cuts costs. Let Saturday morning be the fertile ground for young broadcasters to test their mettle - it would be cheaper and easier to get sponsorship that with Kim Hill at the helm.

And as we said yesterday - Sell Sean Plunket - He is the RNZ brand .

Put Mary Wilson on in the mornings and Kathryn Ryan on at night. Wilson's voice grates but the caustic cow is very good at her job.

We would be happy to sell the advertising - we think on a commission basis we could become very rich in short order.

UPDATE: and Inquiring Mind has a nice takeout here from Bombed Bradley on Jim Moras afternoon show

SELLING PLUNKET

RNZ is following the Ali Mau school of using your employers money for self promotion. RNZ staff and board are bleating because they cant face change. Government departments have begun the painful but necessary exercise of cutting the cloth to fit reducing budgets. RNZ, which is just a noisy government department, is choosing to indulge in both overt and covert campaigns to garner public support to continue in their present stodgy fashion.

The story of the " crisis" they are facing is running hot on their own news broadcasts and a Facebook has started and already has 3000 members which isn't bad going and it will include a fair share of luminaries.




Some media wags are looking at cake stalls and the like to prop up the books on Facebook .

Noelle McCarthy Fundraising lunch in the tearoom at Hobson St. so that RNZ reporters can enter the Radio Awards. Would the Minister like us to save him a sausage???

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Sarah McCarthy

Have anyone a fiver???

Now we like RNZ - we want it to survive but are convinced that some of the staff and a better more commercially focused board could change the way it operates without fundamentally changing the way it presents its programmes.


The thing is there is plenty they can sell, plenty that is commercial. The RNZ brand Sean Plunket is the obvious choice. Not only could he be sponsored on air - he could be sold off after hours with him reaping some of the benefit and RNZ taking a management fee. He's got to be good for $300 k a year if managed right. And it would sort out the argy bargy he has with them over not being able to do stuff after hours.
Who incidentally has 1.2 million links on Google.


As for sponsors? Hmm Stihl chainsaws? Kenworth Trucks? Jeep Cheerokee? Champix maybe?

And same with Kim Hill, actually no on reflection we can't think of a single sponsor for vinegar tits.

And they should bring back Noelle McCarthy - in an afternoon slot. She is good.

She would definitely be a good earner.