1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Well now, Perhaps the most startling thing of the news 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 1: yesterday that our old mates at the state radio broadcaster 3 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 1: have opened a voluntary redundancy program is that they've never 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: done that before one hundred years. They've been doing the 5 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: business at Radio New Zealand a hundred years, never had 6 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: a voluntary redundancy tells you something about how insulated the 7 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: real world from the real world they are. Mind you, 8 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:21,279 Speaker 1: I don't even know that's true actually, because Radio New 9 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: Zealand used to be a whole different beast, and my 10 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: early days of broadcasting Radio New Zealand en compassed commercial 11 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: and non commercial radio stations, and there was I can 12 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: tell you from personal experience, no shortage of carnage. Fiscally. 13 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:34,839 Speaker 1: The place was run by halfwits and we were permanently 14 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: in a state of flux, if not carnage. The most 15 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: famous might have been a thing called Project Aurora, where 16 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: we allegedly all took pay cuts. That was a scandal 17 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: in and of itself. So it's not like the media 18 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 1: hasn't seen tricky days. And I think that's the ultimate 19 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: point here, isn't it. There's a tremendous amount of coverage 20 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:51,479 Speaker 1: of the media, too much really, and if I can 21 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 1: be a little bit blunt, a lot of the tough 22 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: stuff in the industry is no more upsetting than the 23 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:57,800 Speaker 1: dark days for any number of industries. You can try 24 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,280 Speaker 1: a construction and hospital at the moment. Also, and the 25 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,440 Speaker 1: supplies to radio in New Zealand. If you live in 26 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:06,199 Speaker 1: a false world, it will catch up with you eventually. Yes, media, 27 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: like a lot of industries, is changing, but then it 28 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: always has. Forty four years in accounting for me, I 29 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: can tell your media has been in a constant state 30 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,560 Speaker 1: of change, if not upheaval. It's all I've ever known. No, 31 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: it wasn't always Google or Facebook nicking the ad money, 32 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:25,360 Speaker 1: but it was video or TV or deregulation of licenses 33 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: or rubbish management. Having worked at Morning Report myself, you've 34 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: never seen such a sheltered workshop of lavish staffing and indulgence. 35 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: They enter the Radio Awards every year and apart from 36 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: not winning, the joke in the industry is the number 37 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,640 Speaker 1: of producers they've got. Nineteen nineteen, I think we counted 38 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 1: as a record here series. For contrast, this show which 39 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: one wins and two has more listeners, has three, and 40 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 1: that includes Glenn, which is debatable as to whether we 41 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: should include them at all. I wish no one ill will. 42 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, I wish no one ill will. 43 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: I wish boon times prevailed across the whole landscape, but 44 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: equally I wish people lived in the real world and 45 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: Willie Jackson handing out tens of millions as irresponsible politics 46 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: not a business plan. Willy and a zilk As always 47 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 1: never paid the price for this, the poor sap who 48 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: took the New Radio New Zealand job. Will The money 49 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,320 Speaker 1: that pays for jobs is either earned or it's given. 50 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: If it's given, it's always on a whim, in this 51 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: case a political one. It is not their fault that 52 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: Willy is an idiot. For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, 53 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: listen live to News Talks at B from six am weekdays, 54 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.