Tag: Television New Zealand
TVNZ tightens its belt with ‘tough calls’ citing ad revenue slump
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...
Mediawatch: NZ election poll analysis unhitches itself from reality
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...
Mediawatch: NZ’s public media policy put out of its misery
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...
Myles Thomas: Debate over public media merger is the proof we...
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...
Carmel Sepuloni makes history as Pasifika’s first deputy PM in Aotearoa
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...
TVNZ files opposition claim against Vodafone’s One NZ trademark
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...
TVNZ head of news and current affairs Paul Yurisich resigns after...
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...
Gavin Ellis: Heavy work ahead on Aotearoa NZ’s Public Media Bill
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis
The Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill -- introduced to Parliament this week -- will have a long journey before it...
RNZ-TVNZ mega-entity named ‘Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media’ in draft law
RNZ News
Draft legislation which would see state broadcasters RNZ and TVNZ subsumed into a new entity has been published ahead of its introduction to...
NZ public broadcaster faces ‘political headache’ over Breakfast anchor saga
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
The "sorry saga" of former Breakfast celebrated host Kamahl Santamaria's abrupt departure from Television New Zealand last month has created a...
Gavin Ellis: Fundamental flaws in public media plans call for big...
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis of Knightly Views
The proposal for a new entity to replace Television New Zealand and RNZ has two fundamental flaws that...
TVNZ, RNZ merger a watershed moment for NZ media
COMMENTARY: By Paul Thompson
The New Zealand government last week unveiled the creation of a new public media entity that will incorporate RNZ and TVNZ....
Merging commercial TVNZ and non-commercial RNZ won’t be easy – and...
ANALYSIS: By Peter Thompson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
The announcement of the government’s decision to merge RNZ and TVNZ into a...
RNZ and TVNZ to be folded into mega public media entity,...
RNZ News
RNZ and TVNZ will be subsidiaries of a new mega public media organisation, Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi has confirmed.
Faafoi announced the long-awaited changes...
In search of our Hawaiki origins – behind the myths and...
REVIEW: By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch
When I first learned about the mythical place called Hawaiki. I understood it to be Cape Reinga...
Fears the future of Te Karere Māori news is on the...
By Leigh-Marama McLachlan, RNZ Māori News Correspondent
The future of the flagship Māori news show Te Karere is on the line as the New...
Pacific Update: 147 new coronavirus cases confirmed across the region
PACIFIC UPDATE: By Barbara Dreaver of TVNZ
There are now 147 positive cases across seven countries in the Pacific region and four deaths.
In Guam, cases...
Barbara Dreaver: Why is NZ and the world turning its back...
By Barbara Dreaver, 1 News Pacific correspondent
Over the years, many graphic and violent images of torture and beatings have emerged from the Indonesia-controlled...