Tag: Television New Zealand

RNZ News Television New Zealand has breached its collective agreement with the E tū union when deciding on discontinuing programmes, the Employment Relations Authority has...

Pacific Media Watch Television New Zealand Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to...

Pacific Media Watch Palestine solidarity protesters today demonstrated at the Auckland headquarters of Television New Zealand, accusing the country’s major TV network of broadcasting “propaganda”...

REVIEW: By Malcolm Evans Last week’s leaked New York Times staff directive, as to what words can and cannot be used to describe the carnage...

COMMENTARY: By Myles Thomas The announced closure of Television New Zealand’s last primetime current affairs programme seems to be the final nail in the coffin...

This week the two biggest TV broadcasters in Aotearoa New Zealand confirmed plans to cut news programmes by midyear - and the jobs of...

RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter The future of Aotearoa New Zealand television news and current affairs is in the balance at the...

RNZ Pacific The union representing Television New Zealand staff is calling on the public to join a campaign protesting the broadcaster's plans to axe programmes...

Pacific Media Watch Television New Zealand’s chief executive has been challenged by the public broadcaster’s Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver at a fiery staff meeting over...

RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Television New Zealand’s proposals to balance its worsening books by killing news and current affairs programmes...

RNZ News Television New Zealand is proposing to axe its long-running and award-winning current affairs programme Sunday, hosted by veteran broadcaster Miriama Kamo. It is part...

RNZ News Television New Zealand will start talks from tomorrow with staff who will lose their jobs in the state broadcaster's bid to stay "sustainable". It...

For years news media bosses warned the creaking business model backing journalism would fail at a major local outlet. It finally happened this week...

RNZ News Former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson has defended Aotearoa New Zealand's public interest journalism fund that his government started during the covid-19 pandemic, after...

MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Aotearoa New Zealand's public television broadcaster TVNZ is planning significant cuts to content production, programmes and operational spending...

RNZ Mediawatch Nothing much changed in a 1News Verian poll released last Monday. However, some commentators treated the boring results as a blank canvas on...

ANALYSIS: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has confirmed today what pundits have predicted for weeks: the plan for a public...

COMMENTARY: By Myles Thomas How the RNZ/TVNZ merger went from its first reading in Parliament to the legislative extinction list is an example of why...

Pacific Media Watch A mother, daughter of a migrant and an “OG Taranaki girl” - they are some of the ways Aotearoa New Zealand's new...

RNZ News Television New Zealand has filed an opposition claim against Vodafone's attempt to trademark the name "One NZ". In September last year, the telecommunications company...

RNZ News TVNZ's head of news and current affairs, Paul Yurisich, has resigned after a review into the hiring of presenter Kamahl Santamaria. TVNZ released its...

ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis The Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill -- introduced to Parliament this week -- will have a long journey before it...