Some tough bikkies with that cup of tea?

It's no wonder that after losing out big time at the Qantas Film and Television Awards, TV3 don't feel like sharing.  Usually TVNZ and TV3 alternate years of filming and screening of the awards ceremony and this year was TVNZ's turn, but they pulled out and TV3 took up the opportunity to cover the event. It's also no surprise that TV3 didn't screen the entire event but simply a "highlights" version, in which they conveniently edited out many of TVNZ's winners. TVNZ missed out, but they won big, and therefore want the footage so they can have a wee gloat.

TVNZ spokeswoman Andi Brotherston said that TV3 giving them access to the footage would be "a gracious thing to do." TV3 spokesman Roger Beaumont replied by saying: "They need to go sit down and have a cup of tea, to be quite frank."

How did the Your Views users feel? Should TV3 hand over Qantas Awards footage to TVNZ? Or should we all sit down with a nice cuppa and let bygones be bygones?

Karen (Sunnynook)
The media in this country are of such a pitifully low standard they should be embarrassed to have awards at all. No wonder their advertising revenue has plummeted. Their big corporate spenders are all out of here and who watches them these days anyway?
Perhaps if they didn't spend so much on obscenely inflated salaries, corporate cabs, $1k lunches, $60 bottles of wine, expensive wardrobes etc they could have covered it themselves or offered TV3 a reasonable fee for a copy. Profligate wallies.

Again, a intricately-detailed description of someone's impression of a group of people. The accumulation of these "bad" habits are no doubt employed to support the idea that commercial media are blinded by their own decadence, painted as bacchanalian figures who are so consumed by the need for self-satisfaction that they ignore reason.

Opinion8d (Te Atatu South)
Why should they? TV3 filmed the awards, they get to keep the footage. Simple. Besides, April (Auckland) is right; they all produce a load of rubbish - I stopped watching mainstream television about ten years ago, and I'm pretty certain that I'm not alone out there.

And yet you still read the Herald...

Neal (Dargaville)
Tough bikkies TVNZ

Nice one Neal, simply put! On that note, I might go put the jug on...