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Michael Jackson's death has turned out to be the career revival the King of Pop was after.Sales of his albums and singles have soared this week, seeing numerous entries for Michael Jackson in the Official New Zealand Music Chart.The official New Zealand Top 40 Singles Chart this week includes the following entries:16. Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson18. Thriller - Michael Jackson25. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson29. Black Or White - Michael Jackson31. The Way You Make Me Feel - Michael Jackson35. Beat It - Michael JacksonThe official New Zealand Top 40 Album Chart this week includes the following entries:9. The Essential Michael Jackson - Michael Jackson13. Thriller: 25th Anniversay Edition - Michael Jackson21. King Of Pop: New Zealand Collection - Michael Jackson38. Number Ones - Michael JacksonThe Top 10 Music DVD's this week also include:1. History: History on Film - Michael Jackson4. Number Ones - Michael Jackson5. Live in Bucharest - Michael Jackson
From Monday July 6, Ingrid Hipkiss will officially join the Sunrise team as the news presenter, replacing Sacha McNeil who goes on maternity leave this Friday.Ingrid Hipkiss was a 3 News political reporter until 2007 when she left to have a baby of her own. She has also been a back-up presenter for Sunrise, 3 News, and Nightline in recent weeks."I'm really looking forward to the challenge of presenting with the Sunrise team," says Hipkiss. "I've always been a fan of the show - it's great to start the day with a mix of information and entertainment, and it'll be fun being part of the team making it happen."Hipkiss will also replace Sacha McNeil as the presenter of 3 News at 12.
The recent death of Michael Jackson has seen a sudden surge in his popularity, which leaves us wondering whether or not we will see his music return to the official New Zealand charts.Record stores around the country were reportedly selling out of Michael Jackson albums and merchandise over the weekend, and fans were also downloading like crazy from online music stores.Jackson's singles "Man In the Mirror", "Billie Jean", "Thriller", and "Black or White" are all currently sitting in the iTunes New Zealand Top 10 singles chart."The Essential Michael Jackson" album is currently sitting at number 1 on the iTunes album chart. "King of Pop", "Number Ones", "Thriller", "Off the Wall", and "Dangerous" have all made the iTunes Top 10 Albums over the weekend as well.
It has been reported that Jason Gunn's Classic Hits radio show in Christchurch has lost a third of it's audience in the last year.The 97.7FM breakfast show is down 33 per cent from last year, which is a drop from 21,200 listeners to just 14,100.Gunn says that he does not pay too much attention to ratings, adding that creating a new show is "not an overnight thing and I'm not resting on my laurels. We are doing things that have never been done before. The best things take time."Despite Gunn's insistence that the ratings are not the most important thing, bosses in the radio industry do measure a lot of their success on these audience research findings.This news comes as Jason Gunn's shows The Rich List and Wheel of Fortune have been cancelled by TVNZ.
The following is the television news show viewership for Friday June 26, 2009.TVNZ / TV3NZI Business - 37,840 / ASB Business - 9,190Breakfast - 140,810 / Sunrise - 33,240One News Midday - 148,370 / 3 News at 12 - 41,880One News - 625,280 / 3 News - 504,390Close Up - 445,720 / Campbell Live - 256,010Tonight - 181,980 / Nightline - 194,640Source: AGB NMR (Measurement: All people 5 years and over - average audience nationwide)NB: NZI Business screens at 6.00am, while ASB Business screens at 6.30am during the first half hour of Breakfast.
TV3 consumer affairs show Target issued an apology last week after an element of one of it's café hygiene segments contained an error.The June 16 episode of Target stated that a high level of faecal coliform was found in the chicken at Ponsonby's Café Cezanne. Further investigation by the shows producers found an error in the way an employee had coded the samples from each of the café's featured in the segment. This therefore means that Top Shelf Productions was unable to confirm which café actually had the high reading of faecal coliform in their food.Top Shelf Productions is said to have fired the employee responsible, saying the error was "completely unacceptable". Café Cezanne owners Rod Williams and Jackie Wilkinson say they have taken legal advice on the issue as they have experienced a large drop in customer numbers since the episode was broadcast on TV3."Sometimes we hear people walking past and saying 'That was the dirty place on Target'. It's horrible," said Wilkinson.Target producer Laurie Clarke admits the mistake was embarrassing for them, but is satisfied it was completely down to the error of the now former employee.While we do know that a mistake was made with the coding of the samples, one of the café's featured in the episode of Target - including Café Cezanne - still did produce the high reading of faecal coliform, there is just now no way to confirm which of them it was.Perhaps Target should re-test each of the café's to confirm their levels of hygiene once and for all.
The death of Michael Jackson almost brought the internet to a stand-still yesterday, as millions of users around the world raced to both news websites and social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.Twitter reportedly had it's number of tweets per minute more than double, and after crashing due to heavy volume had to disable some of it's search and trend topic features. Twitter has not seen this amount of activity since the election of President Barack Obama.Facebook has also seen a large number of Jackson-related activity. The official Michael Jackson page on Facebook now has over 1 million fans, and these numbers are growing by the thousand each hour. An "RIP Michael Jackson" page created yesterday already has over 400,000 members.AOL's instant messenger service was also hit, a company press release stating that "AIM was down for approximately 40 minutes this afternoon." The statement said that "today was a seminal moment in Internet history. We've never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth."Wikipedia saw over 500 entries made to Michael Jackson's page in less than 24 hours, and was also reportedly overloaded with visitors.TMZ.com, the website that broke the story, experienced several outages during the day. Blogger Perez Hilton's website was also struggling to deal with the number of visitors searching for news on Michael Jackson.The only non-Michael Jackson-related search term to enter the top 10 yesterday was a rumour that Jeff Goldblum had fallen to his death from the Kauri Cliffs in New Zealand. His publicist soon released a statement revealing this was completely untrue.AOL consumer adviser Regina Lewis also stated that the day was a historic milestone for mobile internet traffic, as many people were reading the news headlines from work."People wanted to keep tabs on this story, but if you're an accountant you're supposed to be working on your spreadsheet. So they were using their personal cell phones to do so," she explained.
The following is the television news show viewership for Thursday June 25, 2009.TVNZ / TV3NZI Business - 53,210 / ASB Business - 6,680Breakfast - 131,560 / Sunrise - 21,110One News Midday - 126,940 / 3 News at 12 - 38,500One News - 680,330 / 3 News - 450,570Close Up - 533,970 / Campbell Live - 194,840Tonight - 212,680 / Nightline - 169,240Source: AGB NMR (Measurement: All people 5 years and over - average audience nationwide)NB: NZI Business screens at 6.00am, while ASB Business screens at 6.30am during the first half hour of Breakfast.
Pop legend Michael Jackson has died of a what is currently being reported to be a cardiac arrest this morning.The details surrounding his death were not immediately clear, but it has been reported that Los Angeles paramedics responded to an emergency call and performed CPR on Michael Jackson when he was found not breathing upon their arrival. He was taken to UCLA Medical Centre but was not able to be revived.Hundreds of media and saddened fans are now surrounding the UCLA Medical Centre, where Michael Jackson's family are inside.It was reported that many top websites crashed this morning following the intense amount of internet traffic following the news.Michael Jackson had been preparing to undertake a largescale concert tour.C4 will be paying tribute to Michael Jackson all afternoon, playing his music videos and concert footage - what can only be described as some of the most important parts of music history.Michael Jackson leaves the world at the young age of 50.
The Academy Awards are set to double the amount of best film nominees from five to 10.This was announced by the Academy President Sid Ganis at a press conference, and was decided by the Academy's board of governors. The move is being made to open up the playing field to a larger number of films deemed worthy of the award, and is particularly based on the number of additional films that could have been nominated last year."We nominated five, but there were many other great films last year," said Ganis.This will not be the first time the Oscars have seen 10 movies nominated in the best film category. This number of nominations was often seen right through the 1930's and 1940's.It has been said the changes could now see animation and comedy receiving best film nominations - these particular types of films have not typically done well in Academy Award nominations in the past.The change to 10 best film nominees will take effect with next years Oscars.
The following is the television news show viewership for Wednesday June 24, 2009.TVNZ / TV3NZI Business - 44,930 / ASB Business - 14,690Breakfast - 139,740 / Sunrise - 25,470One News Midday - 113,930 / 3 News at 12 - 26,250One News - 706,670 / 3 News - 427,130Close Up - 563,410 / Campbell Live - 229,060Tonight - 218,470 / Nightline - 135,510Source: AGB NMR (Measurement: All people 5 years and over - average audience nationwide)NB: NZI Business screens at 6.00am, while ASB Business screens at 6.30am during the first half hour of Breakfast.
The following is the television news show viewership for Tuesday June 23, 2009.TVNZ / TV3NZI Business - 44,430 / ASB Business - 6,780Breakfast - 136,330 / Sunrise - 21,540One News Midday - 133,960/ 3 News at 12 - 22,060One News - 693,120 / 3 News - 435,440Close Up - 550,560 / Campbell Live - 282,440Tonight - 246,090 / Nightline - 214,200Source: AGB NMR (Measurement: All people 5 years and over - average audience nationwide)NB: NZI Business screens at 6.00am, while ASB Business screens at 6.30am during the first half hour of Breakfast.
The following is the television news show viewership for Monday June 22, 2009.TVNZ / TV3NZI Business - 40,750 / ASB Business - 2,180Breakfast - 126,360 / Sunrise - 29,810One News Midday - 127,190 / 3 News at 12 - 31,420One News - 785,310 / 3 News - 455,960Close Up - 600,430 / Campbell Live - 228,780Tonight - 142,540 / Nightline - 179,350Source: AGB NMR (Measurement: All people 5 years and over - average audience nationwide)NB: NZI Business screens at 6.00am, while ASB Business screens at 6.30am during the first half hour of Breakfast.
The following is the television news show viewership for Friday June 19, 2009.TVNZ / TV3NZI Business - 32,200 / ASB Business - 7,090Breakfast - 128,500 / Sunrise - 26,210One News Midday - 139,190/ 3 News at 12 - 13,910One News - 672,040 / 3 News - 373,000Close Up - 523,240 / Campbell Live - 151,470Tonight - 158,880 / Nightline - 137,030Source: AGB NMR (Measurement: All people 5 years and over - average audience nationwide)NB: NZI Business screens at 6.00am, while ASB Business screens at 6.30am during the first half hour of Breakfast.
The following is the television news show viewership for Wednesday June 17, 2009.TVNZ / TV3NZI Business - 46,260 / ASB Business - 6,740Breakfast - 146,100 / Sunrise - 30,590One News Midday - 129,390/ 3 News at 12 - 32,500One News - 674,190 / 3 News - 532,870Close Up - 578,030 / Campbell Live - 260,790Tonight - 191,850 / Nightline - 169,030Source: AGB NMR (Measurement: All people 5 years and over - average audience nationwide)NB: NZI Business screens at 6.00am, while ASB Business screens at 6.30am during the first half hour of Breakfast.
The following is the television news show viewership for Tuesday June 16, 2009.TVNZ / TV3NZI Business - 22,500 / ASB Business - 6,640Breakfast - 129,100 / Sunrise - 36,710One News Midday - 145,460/ 3 News at 12 - 75,060One News - 752,630 / 3 News - 463,160Close Up - 583,640 / Campbell Live - 277,830Tonight - 178,550 / Nightline - 219,760Source: AGB NMR (Measurement: All people 5 years and over - average audience nationwide)NB: NZI Business screens at 6.00am, while ASB Business screens at 6.30am during the first half hour of Breakfast.
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld a complaint about the unbalanced airing of "the reactionary views of an unqualified right wing individual" by TVNZ's Breakfast show.
A viewer lodged the complaint after an interview last December of Sensible Sentencing Trust's Garth McVicar.
During the discussion, Mr McVicar criticised the leniency of a 21-month prison sentence given to a gun collector convicted of illegally selling his large gun collection, saying the judge had "got it wrong".
Complainant Roger Brooking said: "No attempt was made to present the other side of the argument on sentencing and law and order issues."
The interview enabled Mr McVicar to "repeatedly air his right wing populist views about law and order, generally criticise judges for being too lenient on criminals and expound his belief this fails to send a message of deterrence to other criminals in the community".
Mr Brooking said a lawyer or a criminologist should also have been interviewed and it was inappropriate for the broadcaster to present "the reactionary views of an unqualified right wing individual as if he was the oracle of sentencing law". He also said the presenters expressed sympathy for Mr McVicar's views.
TVNZ refused to uphold his initial complaint, saying it had already balanced the story across its other shows.
However, in its decision, the authority said none of the items the broadcaster referred to offered any balance to the McVicar interview.
It found TVNZ breached the requirement for balance by providing only one viewpoint when discussing a controversial issue of public importance.
The following is the television news show viewership for Monday June 15, 2009.TVNZ / TV3NZI Business - 24,930 / ASB Business - 12,540Breakfast - 131,140 / Sunrise - 36,310One News Midday - 135,240/ 3 News at 12 - 62,890One News - 769,740 / 3 News - 489,860Close Up - 609,400 / Campbell Live - 310,570Tonight - 185,240 / Nightline - 121,530Source: AGB NMR (Measurement: All people 5 years and over - average audience nationwide)NB: NZI Business screens at 6.00am, while ASB Business screens at 6.30am during the first half hour of Breakfast.
A recent One News fault allowed viewers to see Wendy Petrie "fist pumping" after a live cross during the David Bain coverage.Rumours are now circulating that Petrie will be called into a disciplinary meeting with TVNZ and that she has also threatened to have the accounts of the Youtube users who uploaded the clip deleted.However a TVNZ spokesperson has dismissed both of these rumours, saying that it was not Petrie's fault and that technical staff failed to activate the switch to stop the broadcast after the cross to the studio had finished.
Michael Jackson's death has turned out to be the career revival the King of Pop was after.
