Campbell Live

[Mr Nice Guy]

Might be Campbell Dead 

Just a fortnight after its tenth anniversary, Campbell Live is facing the axe.

Following a meeting this afternoon, Mediaworks confirmed the primetime show is under review. Ratings for the 7pm current affairs stalwart have been in steady decline.

The review will be led by Mark Jennings, Mediaworks group head of news, who said it was part of a broader review of the MediaWorks business. It was being done to "improve commercial performance of the 7pm TV3 time-slot in a changing television market."

"Viewer expectations in 2015 are quite different from those of 2005 and we need to constantly review our programming to ensure we are meeting those expectations," Jennings said.

"Campbell Live is one of the mainstays of New Zealand media and has been at the forefront of New Zealand's news and current affairs landscape for a decade. John Campbell and Campbell Live have won every award possible, broken some of the most important stories of the decade, repeatedly been voted most popular current affairs presenter and programme, and made a real difference to Kiwis' lives."

The review was no reflection on the quality of the programme, or the work of John Campbell or the Campbell Live team, he said. No timeframe was given for the review and staff were now being consulted.

When asked if there would be job losses and if the show would continue in some form or be dropped completely, a Mediaworks spokeswoman said: "There are a range of possible outcomes, and, until the review is complete, it would simply be speculation to discuss how roles may change, or if they will change at all."

Last year, Seven Sharp pulled in an average of 430,000 viewers in the 5+ demographic per episode. In comparison, Campbell Live had 240,000, according to figures from ratings company Nielsen.

In the last week of March, when Campbell Live celebrated a decade on air, it also saw some of the worst ratings in its history. According to analysis by throng.co.nz, it averaged an audience of 154,576 per night for that week - a week in which Seven Sharp exceeded 500,000 viewers for the first time.

Jennings said in July that while ratings might be important, Campbell Live "creams" Seven Sharp when it comes to audience engagement.

In March, Campbell wrote 7pm was a "brutal timeslot - the toughest in New Zealand television".

Wonder if Paul Henry could kick start the time slot again 

[Stu]

I used to always like it, but a few weeks ago there was a cyclone somewhere and every single night he was in the country it happened talking to people, so I stopped watching, even the cricket world cup final week he dedicated a few nights to boring cricket stuff

[Stu]

I saw on Facebook before that it might be taken over by Jono and Ben every day, as much as I like Jono and Ben they often run out of ideas, seems like a late April Fools

But now I'm watching Campbell Live and he's doing a "Look at all the great stuff we do" type episode, so perhaps they've already been canned - Jono and Ben have announced they know nothing so it's all a bit weird

[Mr Nice Guy]

Hmmmm, five days of their kind of humour wouldn't pull many viewers 

[cathy]

John Campbell could have a new career as a social worker.

[Mr Nice Guy]

And it's all a right wing conspiracy from one of JK's hand picked henchmen to silence the left voice on tv and stifle democracy 

https://m.facebook.com/groups/277193423596/permalink/10152787500123597/

[Stu]

Oh FFS, it's ran by Bomber Bradbury, NZ's most militant silencer of people that don't agree with his politics, he's such a f**king hypocrite, I thought he would be too busy bullying advertisers that are advertising with Whaleoil to worry about John Campbell

[Stu]

Actually looks like it's another page modified as Bomber joined the page over a year ago

[Stu]

f**king hypocracy on that page, they want to get Paul Henry off air but are against the supposed silencing of John Campbell

[Lux]

Who is they? the one post you read that you could work with?

[Lux]

John Campbell could have a new career as a social worker.

He is fantastic on social issues; but i doubt that being a social worker would get the same results as prime time TV does.

[Stu]

Who is they? the one post you read that you could work with?

one post with craploads of rabid lefties agreeing, I see you gave it a like too

[Lux]

I read another angle too, he just help win against zero working hours contracts - against mega businesses - in turn those businesses are boycotting media works so no revenue from advertising.

[Lux]

Who is they? the one post you read that you could work with?

one post with craploads of rabid lefties agreeing, I see you gave it a like too

Which page is it?

[Stu]

Not only him, Duncan Garner and Sean Plunkett have been against zero hour contracts as well, they work for media works and they're not being shut down.  Sean Plunkett was talking about it this morning and stated that the Campbell Live workers have been told there's going to be a review, not being shut down anyway, the Herald just blew it out of proportion and the other nutters have joined in.

Hopefully this will make John Campbell a little less bias, I like watching it myself but events like the Len Brown incident where Len got the friendly interview whereas the people that exposed the affair were harassed by Campbell Live, then when Dirty Politics was released they reversed how the handled the Len Brown thing and went to Cam Slaters house and harassed his family wanting an interview within an hour of the book being released - he needs to treat people based on facts not their politics

[Stu]

Interestingly I just heard Michelle Boag past National Party president stating her own disgust at Zero Hour Contracts, so see nobody supports them, I guess they'll have to shut everybody down

[Lux]

Of course with the TPPA coming up and jokey wanting to keep the sheep deaf and blind, it might be a good time to take John Campbell out of the picture, then we can all be hand fed on National party propaganda forever and ever more...baaaaa.

[Stu]

 

[Mr Nice Guy]

Of course with the TPPA coming up and jokey wanting to keep the sheep deaf and blind, it might be a good time to take John Campbell out of the picture, then we can all be hand fed on National party propaganda forever and ever more...baaaaa.

How else is he going to win that fourth term huh 

[Mr Nice Guy]

John Campbell could have a new career as a social worker.

He is fantastic on social issues; but i doubt that being a social worker would get the same results as prime time TV does.

It's pretty obvious though that he exaggerates those social issues to promote himself and the show.

[Lux]

I don't think so.

[Stu]

he exaggerated child poverty and made it look like it was a National problem to get all you lefty sheep outraged

[Mr Nice Guy]

I don't think so.

C'mon, all the "love" he had for chch over the earthquakes is what turned me off him.

He used emotional journalism tactics to make him look like the "battler's" best friend and a media shoulder to cry on. It was hard to tell whether he was at times trying to compete with Fair Go with some of the stories. If he wanted to be everybody's best friend and buddy then that's another show, not a current affairs program.

[Mr Nice Guy]

TV3 is likely to replace Campbell Live with a new, long-running daily serial drama, going head-to-head with TV2's Shortland St.

Shocked staff at the TV3 current affairs show were told yesterday that it has been put "under review" by management, and human resources executives were on hand.

Mark Jennings, news chief of TV3 parent company MediaWorks, said: "Viewer expectations in 2015 are quite different from those of 2005 and we need to constantly review our programming to ensure we are meeting those expectations."

MediaWorks notes the review is being undertaken to improve commercial performance of the 7pm timeslot in a changing television market.

No specific timeframe can be given for the review, Jennings says, but a period of consultation with all staff has started.

It is expected that a daily drama will replace the news show. A production company has been selected to produce the five-day-a-week soap for TV3 targeting a 25-54 demographic.


It is understood that production company is Eyeworks, makers of The Bachelor NZ.

Looks like tv3 is full of jobs for the boys, and Johnny isn't one of the boys anymore 

[Lux]

 

[Lux]

TV3 is likely to replace Campbell Live with a new, long-running daily serial drama, going head-to-head with TV2's Shortland St.

Shocked staff at the TV3 current affairs show were told yesterday that it has been put "under review" by management, and human resources executives were on hand.

Mark Jennings, news chief of TV3 parent company MediaWorks, said: "Viewer expectations in 2015 are quite different from those of 2005 and we need to constantly review our programming to ensure we are meeting those expectations."

MediaWorks notes the review is being undertaken to improve commercial performance of the 7pm timeslot in a changing television market.

No specific timeframe can be given for the review, Jennings says, but a period of consultation with all staff has started.

It is expected that a daily drama will replace the news show. A production company has been selected to produce the five-day-a-week soap for TV3 targeting a 25-54 demographic.


It is understood that production company is Eyeworks, makers of The Bachelor NZ.

Looks like tv3 is full of jobs for the boys, and Johnny isn't one of the boys anymore 

It's the type of crap you dumb c**ts will be watching with glee feeling all superior in your fake little world. A bit of titty will be thrown into the mix and all will be well and right ...that feeling of security you had while feeding at mama's breast...all the time the chains around your neck are getting tighter...ignorance is bliss apparently, enjoy.

[Stu]

[Mr Nice Guy]

If Johhny had more tits and less sob stories his ratings would be higher 

[Stu]

I think he just has to stop getting so absorbed in stuff, I normally watch CL every night but when there was the cyclone and all the stories they were advertising were never shown because he spent 30 minutes every night close talking villagers, which he did for a week or 2, I started doing other s**t instead of bothering with it - this week it's been better though

[The Fat Controller™]

He's being shut down because not enough people watch him. It's not a contherapy spiry and it's hardly brain science

[Mr Nice Guy]

Tv3 was cool when it first started and it just did its own s**t the way they wanted to do it, now it's all about competing, I f**king hate when they put shows on against each other  

[Mr Nice Guy]

Embattled broadcaster John Campbell has engaged lawyer and former journalist Linda Clark to fight his corner, as the chairman of TV3's parent company, MediaWorks, confirms the company is looking for a homegrown soap to replace Campbell's current affairs show.

Ms Clark, a former TVNZ political editor and host of Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon programme, is now a lawyer with Kensington Swan who specialises in damage control.

She did not return calls yesterday to discuss her client, echoing a chorus of official silence from most parties involved in this saga.

Let it go John 

[Stu]

I don't want another s**tty soap with d grade actors like s**tland street, I read that awful Rachel Glucina or whatever her name is, the stalky herald gossip columnist is writing it, interesting that The Herald broke the story

[Stu]

haha I went to read her twitter feed and I'm blocked, first time I know of that I'm blocked on Twitter, I think it must've been when I suggested she be fired for breach of privacy when she posted that All Blacks cock on Twitter

an she's done this article - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/media-publishing-industry/news/article.cfm?c_id=707&objectid=11430329 - weird if she is behind a soap replacing CL

[Lux]

Oh look another Kiwi with guts,

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11430860

Fran O'Sullivan: Valiant Campbell may have provoked political antagonists too often.

A good read for National's slaves.

[Mr Nice Guy]

Yep, that's why his ratings were in the s**tter, all that provoking 

[Lux]

Yep, slaves to establishment, feeding off bulls**t.

[The Fat Controller™]

"Valiant Campbell" - proof of the depth of the delusion. Anyone who really watched him knows that title doesn't fit at all.

[Lux]

Herald poll was telling 79 percent said they would watch Campbell live over a number of other programs which included that weird looking f**ker Hoskins on TV 1.

[Mr Nice Guy]

Ratings aren't showing that though are they 

[Lux]

Well that would depend on what you were gathering the ratings for wouldn't it?

[Mr Nice Guy]

Independent ratings don't show anything different, in fact tv3 6pm news is showing the same decline as Campbell Live except at a slower rate.

[Lux]

Someone mentioned somewhere that it's only based on a sample of 1000 viewers. I'm not sure how it works but I'd like to know.

[Mr Nice Guy]

http://www.throng.co.nz/2015/04/ratings-how-campbell-live-ended-up-on-the-block/

It's not about one survey, it's about the trend, there's s**t loads of boring info here ^

[Lux]

Ratings Friday night prove he has a current audience. 

I think though television itself is in steady decline so many other viewing opportunities.

I don't think we should ever lose sight of current affairs and issues which effect all of us. Some things which are are easily swept under the carpet when no-one visible is asking the hard questions, which I think John Campbell is very good at, not afraid to open up a can of worms if need be and his input to various issues have had good results.

[Mr Nice Guy]

Ratings Friday night prove people love a car accident and rubber necking 

[Lux]

 There were no car accidents or rubber necking on Friday night Campbell live    if there were I missed it.

[Mr Nice Guy]

Uh huh ...

[The Fat Controller™]

 

[Mr Nice Guy]

TV3 is to chop its Sunday night news bulletin to 30 minutes, in the latest dramatic move to turn its news department into a "news, commentary and conversation" team.

MediaWorks chief executive Mark Weldon is at odds with many among his 200-strong news staff after announcing "bubbles and bagels" to celebrate the launch of Paul Henry - at the same time as Campbell Live staff were being told their programme faced the axe.

"It was just insensitive and inappropriate," a TV3 news staffer said.

The reduced Sunday news bulletin, starting on May 24, allows TV3 to move its former hour-long mid-week 3rd Degree current affairs programme to early Sunday evening. It is being renamed 3D and will be shortened to 30 minutes.

Duncan Garner and Samantha Hayes remain the presenters. Hayes will also, with David Farrier, present Newsworthy, the renamed TV3 late news programme that will include a significant "digital element".

Still more changes, not just picking on Johnny after all