I think all of us on here would like to see a well funded and resourced public broadcaster that has great local content that caters to all and well endowed news division but in reality the time has passed for that to happen. I think TVNZ 6 & 7 was the last breath of something in that vain
The appetite for a public broadcaster has passed in the general public with the advent of social media and the idea of citizen journalism where people can get their news and entertainment anywhere/anytime they want. They donât need to turn on the television to get it. TVNZ has moved too much to the commercial space and it works they are doing as well as they can be in this media environment. Doesnât mean that there arenât headwinds on the way.
I mean if I had my way we would go back to the 2000âs, look at implementing a charter that they had and invest in more local current affairs programmes but that isnât going happen.
In that case, the government should sell it. I would rather TVNZ be in the private sector than have it continue to serve up MasterChef, Iâm over MasterChef.
Surely it can use its revenue to commision public service content. That is what happened in the 1970âs and 80âs.
We need more ambition for broadcasting in this country. We arent getting it with wall to wall reality TV. I want more Ken Burns, and less MKR. And TVNZ need to be compelled to deliver it.
Which will be improved and strengthened when the merger goes through. TVNZ need to be given a public service mandate whether it likes it or not. Im over the profit driven commercial model.
Hereâs is my other idea, TVNZ need to move away from Commercial advertising and they would sell off TV2 to overseas investor especially American entertainment company so TVNZ would focus only on TVNZ 1 to go ad free public service broadcasting when RNZ-TVNZ 1 merges.
We get that, but we are talking about finally having a commercial free broadcaster. If the ABC and BBC work in other countries, why canât NZ have the same?
We give NZ on Air over a 100 million dollars every year for broadcasting. We can afford it. If it comes down to giving all that money over to a new public media entity, then we she should do it.
Yep - that is certainly my intel. No one seems to know what the remit would be, what the benefits are and how it would in theory work, what services would be retained.
The most obvious merge point would be the newsrooms, but again - itâs different filing for radio (even for Checkpoint etc) than it is for TV. As Mediaworks discovered when they were under one roof and same with NZME.
One manâs trash is another manâsâŚ(you know and excuse the pun)
Those are shows that people want to watch. The BBC has broadcast Masterchef and has commissioned a new season of Survivor. They also pioneered the Celebrity Dancing show phenom. So they arenât exactly immune from the reality shows you point out.
Itâs also not like TVNZ doesnât do any documentaries and there are plenty on TVNZ+, exposing them to new audiences.
Look, as has been suggested, weâd all love a public broadcaster like that of the BBC and the ABC - but I donât think a merger would succeed in this and suddenly make ANZPM the beacon of public broadcasting worldwide.
This is a merger that would have made some sense 20 or so years ago as the world went into the digital publishing age and digital TV came into NZ, now it just feels like an outdated solution to a problem that isnât really there.
NZOA do a fine job at funding NZ screen ideas and more funding for them would always be welcome.
Plenty have studied it, but most donât have a State broadcaster thatâs totally commercial either. Whatâs needed is a model for the future, not a recreation of the BBC, ABC, CBC &c. A funding Agency, I think, would be the best way to create that, and leave the rest of the puzzle up to the private sector. Kiwiâs want NZ content, Iâm sure now and in the future, they wonât care where they get it from.
In my opine, recent docoâs in NZ are severly wanting - take the Comedy one that aired a couple of years ago no Prime - they ignored pretty much everything they couldnât find TV vision of before the 1970âs, it was pathetic. The first ep of the Te Reo place name series that aired on +HR=E last year had NO detail on the more recent application of Aotearoa and no mention of Ngai Tahuâs opposition to it*. I doubt if TVNZ had commissioned either they wouldnât have been much better, that seems to be the standard for this day and age.
As for reality programming, thereâs obviously some audience for it⌠more it seems for docoâs and grown-up shows. Thatâs broadcasting, it caters for a wider audience than those who you share your living room with.
*FYI: According to a Ngai Tahu spokesperson, Aotearoa me Te Waipounamu better reflects the entire nation, but itâs a bit of a mouthful, eh? Hereâs an article about that, if youâre interested.