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This is the first time I saw Te Karere being subtitled in English. Also the newsroom is somewhat noisy.
Is TVNZ a public broadcaster or merely a commercial broadcaster? Does TVNZ consider airing Te Karere as an obligation considering that the Maori language is one of the languages used in New Zealand? How about Maori Television?
Public broadcasting in New Zealand is very fragmented. Funding comes from the government body NZ On Air, set up in 1989, which bankrolls a lot of TV, radio, web series, and even music videos. All of these are hard to fund commercially in a small country.
Any broadcaster can apply with an idea for a show, and indeed any website can. One of the best (and only) recent NZ documentaries, The Valley, about the Afghanistan war, was a co-production of the website Stuff and TV3.
Māori Television is the only real public-service TV broadcaster just now: it's in English and Māori and shows a range of genres on a modest budget, mostly around Māori themes. It's funded by Te Māngai Pāho - like NZ On Air, but to promote Māori culture via media. This money is guaranteed by law, due to the government's historic neglect of the culture.
Its daily news show is Te Kāea:
- https://www.maoritelevision.com/tv/shows/te-kaea
RNZ (Radio NZ) is a trio of public stations, but RNZ has been branching into video and TV content recently. Generally it's got the most serious journalism in the country, and RNZ National is one of the country's most popular stations because of this.
Some radio programs are televised (on Freeview ch 50 or below). Mostly "radio with pictures" type stuff in John Campbell's living room, but it's a start.
This was the election show from 2017:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnceBjlZsLI&t=29m47s
TVNZ is commercial but the state gets the profits - usually less than £10m a year. TVNZ could also be compared to Channel 4 schedule-wise, if C4 was having a bad day and showed 90% imports. And if its news was tabloidy and superficial. And the next show was hosted by a duller Kiwi Richard Littlejohn type giving his opinions.
So, not much like C4 or the BBC. It's uncertain what TVNZ's purpose is now - it's largely similar to its commercial rival Three, as the TVNZ charter was abolished in 2011. Each channel has some publicly-funded shows with ads, like the Māori news Te Karere, but the (commercial) TVNZ 1 News got into trouble for a cackhanded survey on race, which a more diverse broadcaster would have avoided. For a 'national broadcaster', it's failing to represent a wide view of the country. I hope it'll get better (the Littlejohn guy has quit...).
Your opinions and "facts" re; tvnz amuse me a great deal.
This is the first time I saw Te Karere being subtitled in English. Also the newsroom is somewhat noisy.
Is TVNZ a public broadcaster or merely a commercial broadcaster? Does TVNZ consider airing Te Karere as an obligation considering that the Maori language is one of the languages used in New Zealand? How about Maori Television?
Public broadcasting in New Zealand is very fragmented. Funding comes from the government body NZ On Air, set up in 1989, which bankrolls a lot of TV, radio, web series, and even music videos. All of these are hard to fund commercially in a small country.
Any broadcaster can apply with an idea for a show, and indeed any website can. One of the best (and only) recent NZ documentaries, The Valley, about the Afghanistan war, was a co-production of the website Stuff and TV3.
Māori Television is the only real public-service TV broadcaster just now: it's in English and Māori and shows a range of genres on a modest budget, mostly around Māori themes. It's funded by Te Māngai Pāho - like NZ On Air, but to promote Māori culture via media. This money is guaranteed by law, due to the government's historic neglect of the culture.
Its daily news show is Te Kāea:
- https://www.maoritelevision.com/tv/shows/te-kaea
RNZ (Radio NZ) is a trio of public stations, but RNZ has been branching into video and TV content recently. Generally it's got the most serious journalism in the country, and RNZ National is one of the country's most popular stations because of this.
Some radio programs are televised (on Freeview ch 50 or below). Mostly "radio with pictures" type stuff in John Campbell's living room, but it's a start.
This was the election show from 2017:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnceBjlZsLI&t=29m47s
TVNZ is commercial but the state gets the profits - usually less than £10m a year. TVNZ could also be compared to Channel 4 schedule-wise, if C4 was having a bad day and showed 90% imports. And if its news was tabloidy and superficial. And the next show was hosted by a duller Kiwi Richard Littlejohn type giving his opinions.
So, not much like C4 or the BBC. It's uncertain what TVNZ's purpose is now - it's largely similar to its commercial rival Three, as the TVNZ charter was abolished in 2011. Each channel has some publicly-funded shows with ads, like the Māori news Te Karere, but the (commercial) TVNZ 1 News got into trouble for a cackhanded survey on race, which a more diverse broadcaster would have avoided. For a 'national broadcaster', it's failing to represent a wide view of the country. I hope it'll get better (the Littlejohn guy has quit...).
Your opinions and "facts" re; tvnz amuse me a great deal.
