08-03-2024, 06:05 PM
The only programme which can help people get fair treatment, & sometimes the final chance of being recompensed, & which has been used to get businesses to do the right thing by their customers is to be axed, despite being NZ's longest running programme.
And the only current affairs programme now running here, Sunday is also for the chop. It had been known to sometimes criticise politicians...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5111...estructure
"During a 2021 interview with RNZ's Afternoons programme, original host and creator Brian Edwards said he was inspired by a BBC programme called That's Life.
"One particular segment was on consumers and I think that was the germ of the idea, that we could do a programme in New Zealand where we could look at protecting people right there in their normal daily lives from rip offs and scams by various people and it it just soared from the beginning. I mean, it was tremendous," Edwards said.
Well-known presenter Kevin Milne hosted the show for almost three decades, from 1983 to 2010.
"It was beautifully set up, really, and it didn't require any change as much and still hasn't, you know, 44 years later," he told Afternoons during the same interview.
"I remember that there was a good deal of cynicism in the early days from the newsroom journalists who thought that the because there was an element of entertainment on the show that you couldn't call it real journalism, which was nonsense because it ended up leading the way in terms of investigative journalism."
The show broke new ground, Milne said.
"It's hard to believe now that back then, at the time when Brian set up those programmes, most broadcasters never named names. I can remember now hearing news stories which could say a well-known department store in Lambton Quay appeared in court this morning. No mention [of name], and when Fair Go started up, it was decided it would name names."
Edwards said that was an "absolutely critical" aspect of the show."
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/08/staff...y-fair-go/
"Up to 68 roles are on the line as part of wider cuts at TVNZ.
Half of the job losses were believed to be in the newsroom. Job losses were also being proposed with TVNZ's youth news service Re: and news video content producers.
Daily news bulletins, aside from 1News at Six, would be shelved under the plan.
TVNZ chief executive Jodi O'Donnell said the proposal to cut the programmes came from a need for the commercially-funded company to remain sustainable.
She told 1News she understood staff at the organisation were "angry". O'Donnell also addressed ongoing leaks to other media about the broadcaster's proposals.
TVNZ executive editor Phil O'Sullivan told 1News the shows being proposed for cancellation have been a "really important part of the fabric of New Zealand".
Fair Go executive producer Nicola Russell said her team was "devastated to learn today of the plan to axe the show".
And the only current affairs programme now running here, Sunday is also for the chop. It had been known to sometimes criticise politicians...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5111...estructure
"During a 2021 interview with RNZ's Afternoons programme, original host and creator Brian Edwards said he was inspired by a BBC programme called That's Life.
"One particular segment was on consumers and I think that was the germ of the idea, that we could do a programme in New Zealand where we could look at protecting people right there in their normal daily lives from rip offs and scams by various people and it it just soared from the beginning. I mean, it was tremendous," Edwards said.
Well-known presenter Kevin Milne hosted the show for almost three decades, from 1983 to 2010.
"It was beautifully set up, really, and it didn't require any change as much and still hasn't, you know, 44 years later," he told Afternoons during the same interview.
"I remember that there was a good deal of cynicism in the early days from the newsroom journalists who thought that the because there was an element of entertainment on the show that you couldn't call it real journalism, which was nonsense because it ended up leading the way in terms of investigative journalism."
The show broke new ground, Milne said.
"It's hard to believe now that back then, at the time when Brian set up those programmes, most broadcasters never named names. I can remember now hearing news stories which could say a well-known department store in Lambton Quay appeared in court this morning. No mention [of name], and when Fair Go started up, it was decided it would name names."
Edwards said that was an "absolutely critical" aspect of the show."
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/03/08/staff...y-fair-go/
"Up to 68 roles are on the line as part of wider cuts at TVNZ.
Half of the job losses were believed to be in the newsroom. Job losses were also being proposed with TVNZ's youth news service Re: and news video content producers.
Daily news bulletins, aside from 1News at Six, would be shelved under the plan.
TVNZ chief executive Jodi O'Donnell said the proposal to cut the programmes came from a need for the commercially-funded company to remain sustainable.
She told 1News she understood staff at the organisation were "angry". O'Donnell also addressed ongoing leaks to other media about the broadcaster's proposals.
TVNZ executive editor Phil O'Sullivan told 1News the shows being proposed for cancellation have been a "really important part of the fabric of New Zealand".
Fair Go executive producer Nicola Russell said her team was "devastated to learn today of the plan to axe the show".
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)