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| Thread ID: 63246 | 2005-11-02 23:26:00 | TV Salaries | Peterj116 (6762) | PC World Chat |
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| 401545 | 2005-11-03 02:26:00 | Right.. so basically all they are is pretty faces (and not so pretty, i.e. Holmes) who get paid ridiculous salaries for the sake of being paid ridiculous salaries. I'd understand if they were actually entertainers (or entertaining), but being paid that much PURELY for 1 hour on tv 5 days a week, thats just freaking madness. | pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 401546 | 2005-11-03 02:39:00 | I've often wondered, especially after the whole Judy Bailey pay-packet saga, how much work these newsreaders do outside of reading the news? Do they write their own material? Do they spend all day researching their stories and being journo's, or are they ONLY talking heads? How many hours a week do they 'work'? It'd be interesting to know if anyone has that info... I'm in total agreement with everybody. However Pixel asks a good question and it would be interesting to hear more. To be fair, Holmes and Wood do live interviews which require knowledge of the topic and the individuals they are speaking to. They have to be quickwitted. I grudgingly recognise that Holmes is a very bright guy and now and then displayed brilliance. The trouble was, most of his show was populist pap. Unhappily for us, good looks do attract viewers. As do attractive actors attract filmgoers. And viewer numbers are what drives TV succes = advertisers = money. So we are kind of stuck with this horrible cult of personality until the general public start to think a bit more deeply. :rolleyes: |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 401547 | 2005-11-03 03:18:00 | Above a medium level, "remuneration" is not earned. It has no relation to the work done, or the value of the "work" to society. Exactly. Who came up with this idea? Once actors were considered lowlifes and got measly pay - now.... |
pctek (84) | ||
| 401548 | 2005-11-03 03:20:00 | As one who works in the broadcast arena, what was mentioned above is the crux of the discussion. Presenters are paid what they are on the basis that the pressence of that presenter (or show) brings in an audience of so many thousands and the advertisers pay relative sums according to the sum of the viewers. To advertise in the "news" will cost more than advertising in a 3AM repeat of Gilligans Island. Susan has interited that time slot and still draws (sometimes) similar viewers (though rarely these days) than the previous presenter (Holmes) As the viewers have dropped off, so has the price that TVNZ can ask for the space in the commercial breaks, therefore, the show is not earning as much as before.... Something has to give I suppose.... Not really answering the question, but a bit of background....... |
007 (5654) | ||
| 401549 | 2005-11-03 04:36:00 | I think they put in about 4 or 5 hours a day 5 days a week, but then the pay is way to high. I remember seeing something on TV about the day in the life of Paul Holmes. He gets up about 4:00 or 4:30 in the morning 5 days a week to do his breakfast radio show. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 401550 | 2005-11-03 04:52:00 | ....As the viewers have dropped off, so has the price that TVNZ can ask for the space in the commercial breaks, therefore, the show is not earning as much as before.... There's no show business like show business, exactly. Time for another gripe and groan I suppose. The above says it all, the so-called 'news' in New Zealand is the absolute pits, dumbed down to the lowest common denominator. We dont get any real news. Now I don't see BBC news so don't know what it's like nowadays, but 30 years ago in UK we used to get 1 hours prime time news on both commercial ITV and BBC, with no advertising on either BBC or the commercial channel. The ITV news program from 9pm to 10pm nightly was particularly good. Here, if there has been a significant rugby match or similar, the first 5 or 10 minutes is spent on that, then ads, then a bit of skimpy news, then more ads, then its time for the sports news where we hear what we heard in the first 10 minutes, the weather, and ads, ads, ads all through. So often as not, out of a nominal 6pm to 7pm 'news' program, (or is that show?) we may actually get a total of about 12 minutes real world news. I could go on and on and on.... and be a real bore. :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 401551 | 2005-11-03 05:47:00 | Can you believe somebody earns a fortune as the person who selects the programs,what do they use, a pin over a pile of rubbish? :mad: Amateur hour I call it . A pox on the lot . |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 401552 | 2005-11-03 19:34:00 | Presenters are paid what they are on the basis that the pressence of that presenter (or show) brings in an audience of so many thousands and the advertisers pay relative sums according to the sum of the viewers. To advertise in the "news" will cost more than advertising in a 3AM repeat of Gilligans Island. Drivel. Its nothing to do with who is doing that "show". Look at the ratings when Paul Holmes moved. Everyone kept watching. It was said at the time it was most likely because it comes n after the news - a lot of people just left it on that channel. I know its the only reason we see it in this house. Advertisers pay more to advertise at these times as there is usually a larger audience at these times than 3 in the morning. Personally I think Gilligans Island has about as much intelligence as most of the rubbish on TVNZ now. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 401553 | 2005-11-03 20:17:00 | It was said at the time it was most likely because it comes n after the news - a lot of people just left it on that channel . I know its the only reason we see it in this house . I can remember when that was valid, you had to get up and turn the dial . In this household now we need a remote jamming device to stop frequent channel changing :D |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 401554 | 2005-11-03 21:47:00 | On Radio NZ this morning it was revealed that TV3's John Campbell puts in 14 hour days, doing research etc. Cannot recall what his salary is, but seeing that TV3 is a private company, if he gets bigs bucks then maybe this is why TV1 also sets high salaries.... not that I agree.... Susan Wood is lovely but if she does stuff all work other than sit and read, a fat salary is absurd. | Strommer (42) | ||
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