The proposal by Warner Bros. Discovery to shut Newshub highlights the dismal failure past and present by successive New Zealand governments, bureaucracy and those in the screen sector to grasp the seismic changes that have flowed through our wider industry across the last twenty years, exacerbated in large measure by the global tech giants and […]
Greetings from DEGANZ for 2024! Currently overseas on a personal trip and headed back as I write this. I’ve had a couple of goes at this op-ed but still felt I wasn’t getting the tone right. As I reflect back on what has passed and what we face in 2024, it’s hard not to be […]
You’d have thought things might have settled after the COVID years. But, no, it’s still crazy. And what a year it’s been. The long mooted merger of TVNZ and RNZ finally fell over. The $60 million taken away from NZ On Air returned with an additional one-off $10 million. The New Zealand Screen Production Grant, […]
I’m personally thrilled to see SPADA coming out strongly for a levy on streamers recently. It’s something I’ve been advocating for in this column going back four years, ‘Show Me the Money’, ‘Time for a Reset’, ‘An Answer to NZ’s Broadcasting Industry Dilemma?’ and most recently this year in this Stuff article here. Across the Tasman, […]
NZ On Air’s Where Are the Audiences Survey 2023 confirmed what previous reports have been warning of—the death of linear television in New Zealand. (WATA research here.) Three telling points were highlighted in the document that attest to this: • All traditional media continue to show consistently declining audiences, with TV no longer attracting the […]