Filler makes TV’s Top 10
An unannounced programme filler, broadcast because of a transmission breakdown, was the tenth most popular programme screened by Television New Zealand in the week of May 7 to 13. The list of TVNZ’s Top 20, published in the latest issue of TVNZ’s magazine “Networks,” says the filler attracted 31.7 per cent of the available audience when it was broadcast at 6 p.m. on May 11. The popularity of the filler “Big Country,” about opposum hunting, was
more apparent than real. TVNZ’s public relations manager, Ms Aline Sandilands, said that viewers had their sets turned on as they waited for the network news. The news had been delayed half an hour by a technical fault at the TVNZ Network Centre in Auckland, which prevented live programmes going out. TVNZ public relations staff were, nevertheless, “tickled pink” to see a filler do so well in the rankings, said Ms Sandilands.
The week’s “Sale of the Century” programmes, meanwhile, filled first, third; fourth, seventh, and ninth places. Various editions of the network news filled second, fifth, sixth, and eighth. A variety of programmes, including “Incredible Sunday,” “It’s in the Bag,” “Fair Go,” the week’s other three editions of “Network News,” and two of the “Holmes” programmes, came in behind “Big Country” in eleventh and twentieth place.
Filler makes TV’s Top 10
Press, 29 May 1989, Page 7
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