Music News - New Streaming platform to set the 'Mood' from Rotorua
06 November 2024 - 0 Comments
Founder of The Rock radio station and owner of JuiceTV, Grant Hislop is launching a new music platform ‘Mood’.
The site, initially available in Australia and New Zealand, features 5 music channels including JuiceTV, a rock channel, a country channel, over 100 music documentaries, concerts and TV shows along with a mega event guide and music lifestyle retail store.
Users have the opportunity to “Watch, Shop & Roll” in what Hislop says is a completely unique offering.
“Mood is a place where our audience can dig deeper and consume music they’ve discovered on Juice TV, watch a concert movie, learn how to set up a turntable, buy a tee shirt and find out what’s going on via Australasia’s biggest gig guide.
There’s over 100,000 new songs being released everyday across the globe. To have any meaningful chance of establishing an audience for new material and artists I believe there needs to be more curated offerings by companies who actually are interested in music not just attracting advertising.
When I set up The Rock, we signed artists, built a studio, set up distribution and created our own ecosystem from which to reinvest but most importantly we built an audience. Imagine the repertoire and revenue streams Radioworks (now Mediaworks) would boast should that vision have been seen through!
Whilst I believe people will support the platform on the merit of its content, they’ll also be investing in the future of music in a very tangible way. Specifically we’re working on locating and restoring heritage music videos, we've already signed our first artist “In the Shallows” and shot 2 live concert films.
Mood’s Offering:
- Our 5 linear TV
channels Juice, Melo, Big Rig , The Box and The Greatest Rock of All Time
(The Groat)
- Concerts
- Curated video
playlists
- TV shows
- Films
- Documentaries
Like it’s counterparts Mood’s full offering will be available on desktop and complemented by ios, android and android/googleTV apps with a Samsung app in development. This offers the chance of either casting to your smartTV or downloading the app directly onto your TV or device and have it sit alongside other services.
Hislop says it’s like Spotify but with pictures and a store, like Netflix but dedicated to music content.
The service is now live across Australia and New Zealand, has 4 subscription levels along with the ability to watch JuiceTV and a selection of videos and playlists for free.
Hislop hopes this will form a base from which he can reinvest in new artists, established artists who have no current ‘home’ and to locate and revive music video content that is in danger of being lost.
About Grant
Grant has curated some or NZ’s largest media brands from The Rock, ZM, Radio Hauraki, Juice TV to Rip it Up and Groove Guide. He was Head of Labels at Warner Music and managed over 30 artists including Goodshirt, Pluto and OpShop.
Grant began his broadcasting career as a radio announcer in 1986 winning the Australasian Best New Broadcaster Pater Award presented at the Sydney Opera House.
After successfully establishing Tauranga's first independent local radio station in 1990 he went on to establish The Rock and then The Buzzard (later to become the Edge) co-founding Radioworks with Stephen Joyce and his co-shareholders in Energy FM.
His voice will be familiar to many Kiwis as the corporate voice of The Rock, The Hits, JuiceTV, The Vodafone Network and 100’s of TV and radio commercials.
His MCing roles taking him from summer tours to MCing the first Western Springs Six60 concert.
Mood’s other major shareholder Vickie Loach has been in the music and property industry for over 30 years and first met Hislop at another of his start ups Coastline FM in the Bay of Plenty back in 1990. All other shareholders are musicians themselves so this is very much a project born of a love for music.
JuiceTV
Since relaunching JuiceTV in 2020 The channel has gained a monthly viewership of over 600,000. With a unique format that’s removed the boundaries of genre and era, Juice takes the viewer on a journey that encompasses an opportunity to showcase new music which otherwise has no other mainstream opportunity.
Originally launched in 1994, the Wrightson family ran Juice and sister channel J2 for over 20 years and now run the successful specialist broadcast company The Streamshop.
Grant brought the Juice brand back to life when an opportunity presented itself to provide content to Kordia’s Channel 200 and since then has tripled its monthly audience. Whilst Juice plays 40% local content, it is 100% privately funded. The Mood platform gives Juice a toe into Australia and window into the future.
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