But this is, on balance, good news for everyone - I would have thought. It's good for you, for viewers, good for Sky, and good for Three.
And I'm gonna work backwards on that - Let's start with TV3.
It's good news for Three and for the people who work there, because Three continues to exist. A very real alternative must have been for Warner Brothers Discovery, the owners, to shut Three down completely. Now that they've sold it for $1 to Sky, it continues.
It's good news for Sky, because it gives Sky TV a chance to make money again off stuff that they already own. For example, and I'm just picking this randomly, let's say White Lotus. Sky TV buys the broadcast rights for the country to White Lotus, they earn the money off White Lotus by sticking it on Sky TV, sticking it on Neon, and we pay a subscription to watch it.
Now, they can wait a few months, maybe until all of us who've paid for it have watched it, and then they can dump White Lotus for free on TV3 and Freeview - which is TV3's app - and then they can make money off White Lotus all over again through advertising around the free content.
Now, they can already do this with their Sky Open channel, which is a free-to-air channel they already have, but who even knows where on the TV Sky Open is?
I have no bloody idea what number it is. Never even watched it before in my life. And does it have an app? Wouldn't know.
I know everything you need to know about TV3, I've got the TV3 app, I know where to find it. There is a very strong brand attached to Three.
More importantly, I would have thought for Sky TV - this strengthens its arm for sports, right?
Sky TV has now got to be the only real choice in town for sports content. Beforehand at least domestically, TVNZ was a real competitor, at least for the free-to-air portion, given so many people watch TVNZ - both its on-air channels and its app.
But now, Sky TV's got Three - same same.
It doesn't need to have anything to do with TVNZ.
Finally, it's good for you and me that this deal was struck today, because who doesn't want excellent free content landing on an app that you already have or a TV channel that you already watch?
So good day all round, I would say.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is a journalist and commentator who hosts Newstalk ZB's Drive show HERE - where this article was sourced.
4 comments:
Great news indeed!
At last we may have a conservative voice in the news space, rather than the leftwing vitriol spewed out by the childlike scrolls of TVNZ & RNZ
I can always look forward to something home grown in New Zealand (not some place beginning with "A") for a bit of non-left bulldust content. Maybe something like "Outsiders" or "Bolt" (Sky Australia) that tells it like it is and without the Maori wonderfoolness stuff we have to endure as our daily dose of indoctrination.
Are the taxpayers paying the PIJF money to Sky who have taken over TV3 News, who contracted Stuff for their bulletins, meanwhile the whole TV3 enterprise had been taken over by American corporations years ago ?
What has any of this great commercial money go around got to do with the taxpayers ?
Luxon, if we are still handing anything to this conglomerate, please stop it !
It's only a small thing and should only take 5 minutes of your time without consultants, or committees, just do anything to prove to us that you have our best interests at heart.
(Want to bet he does nothing ?)
Amazing how The NZ MSM have " been taken in" with a sale for $1.00. Nah, there is more to the story that $1.00! Ditto approach to the purchase of Stuff (for $1.00) from an Australian Company.
It is obvious that, even here in NZ, we have "people" within Business who will hide "the truth at all costs".
And to Anon @11.39AM, with your last comment (in brackets) -
"may I join your boat team"??
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