Hi Guys, this is a long one, sorry, results from the latest funding round from NZ on Air. Video, New Recording and Hit diskies. Thoughts?

Music Videos
The first funding round for the new funding year.  The good news is that the
budget for doing music videos has been increased - this funding year, we will do
110 projects (compared with 100 last year).
But even with an increase in the budget, it's still tough.  We can only do an
average of 18-19 projects in each two month round.
In this first funding round for the new year, we got 86 applications.  Of the
86, 48 made it to the first shortlist.  That's 48 contenders.
We will do 18 projects.  Each project will get $5,000 to make a music video.
Decisions are based on airplay potential after testing the songs with music
video broadcasters and taking into account current radio priorities.
* Antenna Recordings/Pluto/Perfectly Evil
* Antenna Recordings/Tadpole/Rock 'n' Roll* Antenna Recordings/Ubana/One
* Festival Mushroom Records/Carly Binding/For What It's Worth
* Flying Nun Records/betchadupa/Life Will Be The Same
* Intergalactic Records/Mama Said/Elements
* Kog Transmissions/Concord Dawn/Morning Light
* Kog Transmissions/Unique/Outspoken* Mai Music/D2S/Ride With Me
* Mana Music/Barry Saunders/Amsterdam
* Offcut Records/Mace & The Woodcut Crew/Shake'm
* Sony Music/Bic Runga/Something Good* Sony Music/Stellar/One More Day
* Sumo Music/Steriogram/Free* Tenvor Productions/Jester/Enemy
* Universal Music/Elemeno P/Saturday* Universal Music/K'Lee/Tonight
* Wildside Records/Bryan Bell/Baggage New Recordings
Another 8 new recording projects out of another massive mailbag of 172
applications.
Each project will get $5,000 to record a song for radio.  Decisions are based
on commercial radio airplay potential, using commercial radio expertise and
experience and testing the songs with commercial radio programmers.
* Pick Up The Pieces by Crumb (Antenna Recordings)
* Downtown by DJ Raw (2Much Music)
* Maybe Tomorrow by Golden Horse (Siren Records)
* What's The Story by Mighty Scoop (Independent)
* C'mon Hallelujah by Paselode (Wildside Records)
* R-R-R Rhombus by Rhombus (Moko Entertainment)
* Fooling You by Scooter (Soulfire Entertainment)
* I'll Go by Taisha (Manawa Productions) Radio Hits
[based on airplay in the April/June 2002 quarter]
Another 7 Radio Hits rebates for songs that have picked up significant
airplay on commercial radio in the second quarter of 2002.  Each project will
get $5,000 (or the actual cost of recording and releasing the single, whichever
is the lesser).
Decisions are based on analysing the RadioScope airplay charts which are in
turn based on airplay returns from 146 radio stations around the country.
Note that songs that have picked up significant airplay in this quarter but
have already been funded via the Phase Four Album or New Recording schemes are
not eligible for Radio Hits funding as well.
* Falling In Love Again by Anika Moa (Warner Music)
* Synchronise Thoughts by P-Money (Dirty/Kog Transmissions)
* Exit To The City by The D4 (Flying Nun Records)
* S U I T by Blindspott (PMF Incorporated/EMI New Zealand)
* Taking It Easy by Carly Binding (Festival Mushroom Records)
* A Lifetime Left To Wait by K'Lee (Universal Music)
* Bananas In The Mist by Pluto (Antenna Recordings)
xxx Lucy

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