Dear TVNZ – why didn’t you just call your new male TV station ‘Cock’?

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Martyn Bradbury
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TVNZ – the public broadcaster – has decided to actually do something with their extra Freeview station and have decided to launch a male station called ‘Duke’.

It’s not as if male sport doesn’t already dominate nearly half the daily news bulletin. No, apparently what men intimidated by vaginas need is an ultra blokey TV station that caters to their need to be front and centre. It’s for those men who saw the latest Mad Max and Star Wars films as sexist because there were too many chicks doing all the acting and taking up all the screen time.

Duke is currently gloating in its publicly funded sexism like a drunk first year undergrad who has snuck into Women Space as an act of male equality. This is their hilarious twitter image mocking at people with an education above primary school level who have pointed this out for the state funded sexism that it is…

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…fucking hilarious. Ha-fucking-ha. He-fucking-he. As if being called sexist is some sort of badge of fuckwitedness they are proud to wear.

When you consider the appalling abuse of women in popular culture and the domestic violence stats and the sexual assaults that never get to Court this is crass and ignorant. That’s fine if you want crass and ignorant, it’s your right to enjoy that, it is a free democracy – but you can get your crass and ignorant on Paul Henry, the Edge, the Rock, ZB, the NZ Herald or the Dominion Post any time you want – this is the public broadcaster revelling in sexism rather than challenging it!

Roastbuster’s 1 and 2 proved to us that young men have a damaged view of women – how does this sort of state sponsored arseholeness counter that?

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29 COMMENTS

  1. OMG!
    No wonder I never watch TV anymore except for the occasional programme on Maori TV… They’re pretty much a lone voice of sanity in the wilderness.

    • No TV in this household since 2009 and bloody glad of it .

      Funny thing…. we still have a TV, but with all the crap on it, we’re watching less and less broadcast tv.

      Which is a pain, as we’re no longer in the habit of switching it on even to check if anything is worthwhile watching. (I’m watching Checkpoint with John Campbell rather than TV1 or TV3 News at 6. It’s vastly more informative.) So I’ve missed X Files, because we’ve forgotten to switch on The Box. Damn. I guess I’ll have to buy the dvd set when it comes out.

      But that raises a point; if TV is no longer offering a variety of programming; and if current programming continues to consist of reality shows; crime “dramas”; and reality/crime hybrid-programmes, then how long before this kind of formulaic offerings by TVNZ and Mediaworks alienates even more viewers?

      I can see Radio NZ’s viewing audience about to increase significantly.

      • Mostly only watch the 6 pm news on both NZ main channels so I know what trash is served and what manipulations are being tried. Otherwise I watch less Maori TV now, as it has also sunk in quality, I mostly watch Al Jazeera, as that is the only Freeview channel offering some insight into what goes on internationally (after TVNZ canned broadcasting the BBC over nights years ago). Also do I watch channel 50 at times, to follow John Campbell on Checkpoint, and occasionally I observe the Chinese channels to get an impression what the Mainland Chinese condoned broadcast allows to report (too often showing off new fighter planes, warships and so, that seem to be boosting the new Chinese arms arsenal).

        I have no Sky TV as I cannot really afford it, and as I have heard it is no longer what it once was, so for the rest it is all internet, You Tube, various news channels, blogs and endless media websites from all over the world.

        TV, what is that?

      • Frank

        You can go onto the TVNZ Ondemand site to watch the Xfiles (you need to register with an email address, but it can be a spam-magnet one). The series is okay so far, though I was never a big fan of the original (the wife watched it more than I did). But episode 3; X-files vs the were-creature, is just wonderful!

      • If I was a conspiracy theorist I would say that it’s all part of a plan to dumb down the public, but then you don’t have to a theorist of any sort to believe that.

  4. No TV here either. Recently plugged in Freeview just so I could watch and listen to John Campbell. When I’ve visited other homes and observed what they’re watching on their screens ….. I shudder ….. and leave.

  5. Misogynism never went away and it’s now back with a vengeance. Sadly, it seems a lot of males take their lead from their leader. What hope?

    • Spot on. FJK plays to this audience with stunts like his not sorry to be a man tshirt. All the idiots who resented Aunty Helen for not putting schoolboy behaviour front and centre are having a field day, encouraged by our not so great leader.

  6. This is the sort of crap which will happen more and more as John Key and his cronies sell off more and more of our businesses and assets to foreign ownership… We as New Zealanders are being rail roaded into how to think, what to watch and the content shown on our foreign owned airwaves. I would personally de-friend pretty promptly any male who tuned into this sexist rubbish… which I might add we the New Zealand tax payer are paying for…. God give me strength. Am disgusted.

  7. Will there be a freeview station called ‘Duchess’, I wonder?

    In all seriousness, TVNZ has missed a golden opportunity with their “spare pop-up” freeview channel. If “blokey” programmes was the best that TVNZ hierarchy could come up with, it’s not a very imaginative lot.

    Anyway, we already have a “bloke’s media”. It’s called the internet. With as much gormless Youtube vids and xxx-porn as anyone could consume in a life-time.

  8. Will Duke cost more or less than TV7 which was axed by Joycie because it was costing $17million a year?

    Those Freeview channels are the most a modern day Goebbels could wish for. They certainly wouldn’t want the free spirit that was TV7 casting thoughts to the populace. Joyce took care of that.

    He’s out to sway the male youth demographic now.

    • Groucho

      Thank you for remembering TV7! We got our satbox just to be able to watch it (also; Stratos with its variety serious news, plus the sadly defunct Bomber’s Blog). Wasn’t there something about TVNZ flogging off archival footage to Sky, around the time TV7 folded?

      • Joyce pushed Jim Blackman and Triangle/Stratos out of the market with the analogue to digital changeover.

        Fees went from thousands to over a million. That rid the airwaves of that thorn in the Govt’s side, Bomber’s Blog. Too much freedom of speech there.

        He dealt to that before he pulled the rug out from TV7.
        (TV7 went to an advertising mate for a shopping channel)

        Vandal.

  9. This channel should’ve been for Current affairs not more testosterone feeding shit that I see on that trailer.

    This seals my intention to cast off my sky account now as sky is also becoming more and more junkie as this crap is on Duke, so thanks TVNZ for making my mind up to turn you off entirely.

  11. I had a look at “Duke TV’s” Twitter-feed… whoever is writing their Tweets appears to have the mental age of an eight year old (no offense intended to eight year olds).

    Does. Not. Bode. Well.

  12. You write:

    ” it is a free democracy – ”

    No it isn’t.

    Try starting up your own conventional TV station and see how democratic and free things are.

    Sure, you can stream TV to those who are not afraid of that there inter web thing-a majig. But you try to broadcast, in equal measure, to counter the vast ocean of vile, festering, shit that TV has become? You’ll get nailed by the free and democratic Ministry of Broadcasting. Perhaps we need to go to Honourable Amy Adams’ office and ask her what her thoughts are on that matter?
    Or perhaps Hon Maggie Barry. Lead Minister (Ministry for Culture and Heritage) Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage.
    She may enlighten us on what it is that’s so cultural and artistic about ‘ Dukes’ that we may not understand? After all. She’s honourable and she must understand art, culture and our heritage. Perfect. She and Amy can enlighten us on’ Dukes’. Explain what we’re missing.

    House is crumbling?
    Go fix the foundations. Not rocket surgery.

    Honourable Adams and Honourable Barry should be looking for jobs by the end of today. It’s that simple.

  13. Thanks countryboy for putting it so fine.
    The Nats have killed off good quality public broadcasting – on purpose!
    It’s our job to get it back. Is switching off the answer? Who knows, but that’s what I have done. Would I switch back on if they brought back channel 7? possible…
    From what we had to where we are now, in television – just sad.

  14. It’s impossible to watch TV, even if you can stand the programming. The mount of advertising is unbearable. 4-5 mins between ads?

    It’s as if they are imploring people to download or go elsewhere.

    I’d say it was a race to the bottom, but we’re so far beneath it that we’d have to improve several notches to scrape the bottom of the bottom.

  17. It doesnt really matter anyway. It sounds like it will be backed full of cheap imported reality crap and 80’s action movies, all peppered with ads.

    The channel will be gone within a year.

    • I like a lot of what they are saying they’ll be showing (Gotham, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Jeckle and Hyde) but -as you say – what’s in between’s likely to be “Girls of Playboy Mansion” and “Jackass” which’ll be arse. I’m not sure why they need to sell it as MAN CHANNEL (drags knuckles) when it’s pretty much after 4’s audience. Thank god for recording devices – which we actively use cos our family hates the ads on Four too. Not sure also why they think they need to attach a penis to it (note: neither I nor my daughter have one and we’re both pretty annoyed for it to be inferred we need to posses one to enjoy gothic drama or american satire).

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