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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.
The following is the television news show viewership for Monday June 22, 2009.
