MediaWorks has announced that television CEO Jason Paris has resigned his position….

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14 June 2011

Outrageous Fortune obscenities breached broadcasting standards, says BSA

The use of the c-word and other obscenities during the initial 10 minutes of an episode of Outrageous Fortune shown at 8.30pm breached broadcasting standards, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found…

Highly regarded current affairs programmes Q+A and The Nation will return to New Zealand television screens next year, with funding from NZ On Air.
The funding agency announced today it will continue supporting the two programmes through its special Platinum Fund.

Mainstream Māori Programming discusses the history and current output of Māori programming on mainstream channels. The researchers sought the views of industry professionals, gained insights from a public online survey, and reviewed the history of this programming.
NZ On Air chief executive, Jane Wrightson, said the research would result in new initiatives for mainstream Māori television programming.

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has declined to uphold a complaint about an episode of New Zealand’s Next Top Model in which some of the contestants posed topless in geothermal mud pools.
The episode of the TV3 reality series broadcast at 7.30pm on Friday 20 August included shots of contestants posing for a female photographer, wearing bikinis and accessories, with their bodies covered in mud.

MediaWorks Interactive has launched a fantastic new tv3.co.nz. It’s easy to get around, a delight to explore and engages viewers with TV3 content and show fans. The site features simple navigation between core TV3 areas: Shows, On Demand, News, TV Guide.
Director of Interactive Siobhan McKenna says: “It’s real easy on the eye, world class on show content and the opportunities it now presents advertisers to make a big splash cost effectively are more fantastic than ever!”

Last night’s series finale of Outrageous Fortune hammered the competition, with its highest viewership of 18-49 year-olds in six seasons.
Meanwhile, key critics were in a congratulatory mood, with one peering into the future and declaring it “most successful locally made television series of all time”.

The final episode of TV3’s most popular drama, Outrageous Fortune, ended last night with the highest rating episode ever.
More than 700,000 New Zealander’s tuned in to say goodbye to the country’s most successful drama series and to the much loved West family.

MediaWorks surprised media and ad agencies in Wellington this morning when it revealed TV3 and C4 would be targeting older demographics next year.
TV3 will seek to seize the 25-54 year-olds mantle from a struggling TV One while C4, which will be rebranded FOUR, is to become a big-gun entertainment channel with its sights fixed on 18-49 year-olds.

After a premiere that could only be described as RadiRadi-Wow!, TV3’s new sketch comedy, RadiRadiRah, halved its viewership when its second episode screened on Friday (28 May).
It drew 5% of TV3’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, compared to 10.9% the previous week.
However, TV3 programming chief Kelly Martin isn’t panicking yet.

TV2 will be looking for episode two of Go Girls’ second season (8.30 tonight) to build on last week’s debut, which drew fewer viewers than the season one premiere.
It was watched by 10.1% of the network’s target demographic, 18-39 year-olds, and earned a 26.9% channel share.
By comparison, last year Go Girls bowed with an 11.9 rating/37.1 share and the season went on to average an 11.1 rating/33 share.