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Mediawatch for 17 March 2024
9:08 AM.What will government do about the great TV news meltdown?; Stuff deploys AI for DIY news. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - manic Monday for news & fake photo frenzy
10:00 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talks to Emile Donovan about a manic Monday afternoon of news - cricket, Oscars, terror in the skies . . . and the… Read more Audio
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Apocalypse now for news - part 2?
9:10 AM.TVNZ’s proposals to balance its worsening books by killing news and current affairs programmes mean New Zealanders could end up with almost no national current affairs on TV within weeks. It’s a… Read more
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Mediawatch for 10 March 2024
9:08 AM.TVNZ has proposed big cuts to news that could leave the country with only one daily TV news bulletin and almost no current affairs on TV within weeks. Read more Audio
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TVNZ axing Fair Go, Sunday, two news bulletins
10:30 AM.TVNZ is shutting down Sunday, Fair Go, 1News at Midday and 1News Tonight in an effort to keep its business "sustainable" in a declining advertising market for broadcast news. Read more
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TVNZ plans job cuts to keep company 'sustainable'
9:25 AM.Just a week after Warner Bros. Discovery's shock announcement that it plans to shut down Newshub, TVNZ has announced it intends to cut dozens of jobs. Read more
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TVNZ news staff braced for bad news
9:23 PM.Last week a plan to completely close Newshub and TVNZ’s big losses and a slump in revenue rocked the media. News on Wednesday of an announcement on Thursday about the future of news at the state-owned… Read more
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Midweek Mediawatch - it's the end of the news as we know it?
7:48 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about job cuts looming at TVNZ as its crosstown rival Newshub faces a shut-down. Also: coverage of Chris Luxon's… Read more Audio
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Government keeps media problems at arm’s length
5:34 PM.The Newshub closure announcement, TVNZ’s slump in revenue and Meta scrapping news funding across the Tasman all threw media companies' problems into sharp relief last week - but the government… Read more
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End is nigh for Newshub, while others worry
9:08 AM.For years news media bosses warned the creaking business model backing journalism would fail at a major local outlet. It finally happened this week when Newshub’s owners proposed scrapping it. Then… Read more Audio
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Three no longer a hub for news
9:07 AM.Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision to shut down Newshub was met with mourning within the media - and also concern about what could replace it in the media ecosystem Read more Audio
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TVNZ's losses point to media-wide strife
11:02 AM.Mediawatch: TVNZ’s latest losses signal likely cuts to come. But it’s the slump in income for the broadcaster that dominates free-to-air TV which will worry the entire media industry. Read more Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - Newshub's brutal 'proposal'
6:46 PM.Midweek Mediawatch - Mediawatch’s weekly catch-up with Nights. Colin Peacock talked to Emile Donovan about the sudden and startling news of Newshub’s impending demise in a ‘proposal’ from the global… Read more Audio
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Newshub closure: 'If we can’t make it work, who can?'
11:51 AM.Warner Bros. Discovery plans to close its Newshub operation on June 30, ending its TV news broadcasts and online news. The company has blamed an economic downturn and decline in advertising. Around… Read more
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Welfare and immigration set for a 'reset'
9:12 AM.The PM’s State of the Nation speech got the media’s attention when he said welfare needs reform. He didn't mention record-level immigration but that’s also been deemed unsustainable and set for a… Read more Video, Audio
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A lifeboat to keep news afloat?
9:10 AM.Last week the great and good of New Zealand’s news media urged MPs to back a law change to make Google and Facebook pay them for their news. They say the income could be critical to the survival of… Read more Audio
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Milking Kiwi Swifties' FOMO
9:08 AM.As the biggest pop star on the planet packed out huge Australian arenas this week, the media here milked Kiwi Swifties’ anger over missing out. It also aired confusing blame-game claims about why… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 25 February 2024
9:08 AM.Government 'resets' immigration and welfare; another way to make Google and Facebook to pay for journalism; media milk Kiwi Swifties' stadium FOMO. Audio
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Midweek Mediawatch - A clash of polls
8:21 PM.In this week's edition of Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Emile Donovan about the death of Efeso Collins, big conclusions drawn from conflicting polls - and the problems with an old media… Read more Audio
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$500k Auckland pedestrian crossing costs quietly corrected
9:10 AM.A Herald headline this week said Auckland Transport was 'pushing on with $500,000 crossings'. The apparently outrageous expense was also aired on radio and in Parliament as evidence of the urgent need… Read more Audio
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MPs urged to take sides in media vs big tech tussle
9:10 AM.Media bosses warned MPs this week journalism is in jeopardy here if they don't back a Bill making offshore tech giants pay for news carried on Facebook and Google. It's based on laws already in place… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 18 February 2024
9:08 AM.Auckland's transport turmoil reports lack full facts; publishers pitch to Parliament to make Google and Facebook pay for their news. Read more Audio
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Media bosses urge MPs to 'level playing field' with big tech
1:04 PM.Media bosses sounded a warning in Parliament today about journalism in jeopardy and the potential damage to democracy if the Government doesn’t back a Bill making offshore tech giants pay for their… Read more
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Midweek Mediawatch - Retail rat-astrophe & awkward interviews
9:30 PM.Midweek Mediawatch: Colin Peacock talked to Emile Donovan about the Port Hills fire prompting another state of emergency; questions posed by two awkward interviews with political leaders - and the… Read more Audio
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Waitangi tensions test politicians - and the media
9:10 AM.In past years some media outlets were ambivalent about Waitangi Day - some even hostile at times. But new moves by the new government and a strong pushback from Māori gave it an extra edge this… Read more Audio