Tag: Discovery
RNZ Mediawatch: NZ media facing an apocalypse now?
For years news media bosses warned the creaking business model backing journalism would fail at a major local outlet. It finally happened this week...
NZ media people react with ‘shock’ over plan to close Newshub...
Pacific Media Watch
Newshub, one of the key media companies in Aotearoa New Zealand, is to close its newsroom on June 30, reports RNZ News.
Staff...
Digital news check: In media, we don’t trust
ANALYSIS: By Tim Murphy and Mark Jennings, co-editors of Newsroom
Less than half the New Zealand public now professes "overall trust" in news media outlets,...
Global media giant set to be NZ’s biggest private TV broadcaster
ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter
Commercial broadcasting company MediaWorks has agreed to sell its television channels to Discovery Inc.
The US-based global entertainment company...
NZ’s MediaWorks confirms sale of TV operations to Discovery Inc
By RNZ News
New Zealand's MediaWorks has confirmed it will sell its television operations to US company Discovery Inc.
The deal includes channels Three and Bravo,...