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© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.New Zealand to merge public TV and radio as audiences shift
By NICK PERRY WELLINGTON, New Zealand©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Rodney
As part of the Five Eyes, this seems like a move to control the media and brainwash Kiwis.
Eastman
...than censorship can be easier...
diagonalslip
but
so this is a good idea, but we don't know yet what it will be, or how it will work....
Cricky
It’s a modern business model not a control move. NZ are so far away from any type of media control. I know the right wing are absolutely jumping up and down their jowls wobbly. But it’s a small population and everyone is friends with someone. Of all the countries in the world can’t see NZ being the one who leads the way forward to a totalitarian media.
snowymountainhell
Lovely country. Reads a little like a certain ‘Nippon Hoso Kyokai’, another country’s only ‘public’ broadcaster:
Is it ‘free’ or, will every household with ANY type of TV and/or radio device have to pay their ‘share’ ?
awomde
In 2022 there should be no publicly funded broadcasters
JeffLee
I'm a big consumer of public radio, namely BBC, RTHK Radio 3 (Hong Kong) and CBC. Whenever I listen to commercial providers like Bloomberg, Fox, etc. I get eight ear-splitting commercials in a row and a lot of dumb, useless personal opinions and info.
factchecker
NZBC existed before 1975, this is just putting the pieces back together. Struggling to understand why this matters as news in Japan though.