Tag: TVNZ
Open letter to TVNZ – stop the bias, report fairly on...
OPEN LETTER: Our Action Station
Dear TVNZ,
We are deeply concerned with the misleading nature of the journalism presented in your recent coverage of the escalating...
TVNZ breached union pact when deciding on programme cuts, ERA rules
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...
Palestine protesters challenge TVNZ over Israeli ambassador’s ‘propaganda’
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”...
Myles Thomas: Newshub, TVNZ job cuts: We now have the worst...
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...
RNZ Mediawatch: End of the news in NZ as we know...
This week the two biggest TV broadcasters in Aotearoa New Zealand confirmed plans to cut news programmes by midyear - and the jobs of...
Geopolitical reasons why Warner Bros were always going to mutilate NZ’s...
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog
The day the news axe fell: Presenters, insiders fear ‘huge blow for democracy’
The future of New...
Journalists offered ‘radical’ solution to save part of Newshub, says Gower
RNZ News
Warner Bros Discovery will struggle to retain viewers in New Zealand if it has no news operation, Newshub journalist Paddy Gower predicts, as...
‘Economic headwinds’ force Newshub shutdown, media jobs cut in NZ
By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
Warner Bros Discovery has confirmed its plans to shut down Newshub in Aotearoa New Zealand, including its website and...
NZ media: All Newshub operations to be shut down, 250 jobs...
RNZ News
All of Newshub operations -- part of New Zealand's second largest television news network channel Three -- are to be shut down and...
NZ media minister Melissa Lee says interviews would have been ‘boring’
RNZ News
New Zealand's media and communications minister is defending pulling out of pre-booked interviews about her portfolio, saying they would have been "boring" for...
Mediawatch: TV news meltdown – what will NZ government do?
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...
TVNZ job cuts: Public asked to join ‘save our stories’ protest...
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 journalist Barbara Dreaver challenges TVNZ chief over job cuts
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...
Mediawatch: Apocalypse now for NZ news – take 2?
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...
TVNZ plans to axe Fair Go, Sunday, midday and night news...
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...
TVNZ to cut up to 68 jobs in restructure – ‘dire...
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...
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...
Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence
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...
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...
Former TVNZ Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria breaks year-long silence in The...
By Lincoln Tan of The New Zealand Herald
Former TVNZ Breakfast host Kamahl Santamaria, who quit following complaints about inappropriate workplace behaviour, has broken his...
Jackson’s Plan B for public media may prioritise Māori and Pacific...
Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the New Zealand government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems...
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...