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NZ On Air
Connecting and reflecting our nation
NZ On Air invests in public media for many audiences. We find and support great audio and visual content that holds a mirror up to New Zealand and our people. We do this through the platform-neutral NZ Media Fund.
NZ On Air - Latest News [Page 14]
New Māori programmes bring variety to our screens
Wednesday, 2 April 2014, 11:51 am | NZ On Air
New Māori programmes bring a landmark documentary and variety to our screens Both light entertainment and examination of a significant historic event will be covered in new programmes funded by NZ On Air under its Māori programming strategy, Te Rautaki ... More >>
New fund to support Māori webseries
Wednesday, 26 March 2014, 9:42 am | NZ On Air
New fund to support Māori webseries 26 March 2014 An initiative just launched by NZ On Air and Te Māngai Pāho aims to create a way to tell stories by and for Māori outside the traditional broadcast model. The new joint fund for webseries has $500,000 ... More >>
Local content holds steady at 32% of television schedules
Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 11:19 am | NZ On Air
Local content holds steady at 32% of television schedules The annual NZ On Air Local Content Report released today reveals some challenges being faced by the television sector. More >>
Health and popular music to feature in new local content
Friday, 14 March 2014, 12:40 pm | NZ On Air
A new science-based documentary series will seek answers to worrying declining health statistics for New Zealanders, asking the question Why Are We Fat? In funding decisions made by NZ On Air this week, the Razor Films production for Prime was supported. More >>
The big question answered for Nothing Trivial fans
Thursday, 13 March 2014, 12:37 pm | NZ On Air
The big question answered for Nothing Trivial fans and strange-but-true-drama Fans of Nothing Trivial will finally get some answers – NZ On Air has agreed to fund a two-hour tele-feature to wrap up the series, after series three ended unexpectedly ... More >>
Investment in local music paying off
Friday, 17 January 2014, 3:34 pm | NZ On Air
Latest results from the two year old NZ On Air Making Tracks music funding scheme show that local music is finding bigger audiences across a diverse range of media. More >>
New Zealanders will see 2015 Chunuk Bair service live
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 11:22 am | NZ On Air
New Zealanders will see 2015 Chunuk Bair service live NZ On Air has awarded Maori Television a contract for the live TV coverage of the historically significant Anzac Day 2015 commemorative service at Chunuk Bair in Turkey. More >>
Documentary and factual programmes galore for 2014
Tuesday, 17 December 2013, 9:38 am | NZ On Air
NZ On Air has invested $4.8m in high quality local documentary and factual programmes in its latest funding decisions, including three one-off documentaries for prime-time. Topics covered range from art, science and architecture, to history and health. More >>
New TV dramas backed by NZ On Air
Sunday, 15 December 2013, 3:57 pm | NZ On Air
Three different production houses have won NZ On Air funding for significant new drama projects. Six telefeatures will join NZ On Air’s slate of short and longer-run series currently in production. More >>
Innovative new projects to excite and engage online audience
Friday, 13 December 2013, 3:46 pm | NZ On Air
Fresh support from NZ On Air’s Digital Media Fund will bring six innovative projects to online audiences. The latest funding round saw 61 applications to the Kickstart fund for transmedia projects and 54 applications for webseries. The applications ... More >>
Overnight Motorway Closures
Friday, 13 December 2013, 12:20 pm | NZ On Air
The NZ Transport Agency advises of the following closures for motorway improvements. Closures start at 9pm and finish at 5am, unless otherwise stated. Work delayed by bad weather will be completed at the next available date, prior to Friday, 20 December. More >>
Top current affairs shows to return to screen in 2014
Friday, 13 December 2013, 12:16 pm | NZ On Air
Top current affairs shows to return to screen in 2014 NZ On Air has renewed its commitment to three specialist current affairs programmes for 2014, providing a platform for intelligent discussion and media commentary. More >>
New services for hearing and vision-impaired TV audiences
Friday, 29 November 2013, 2:00 pm | NZ On Air
NZ On Air and the Media Access Charitable Trust are today celebrating the official launch of Able, New Zealand’s new television captioning and audio description service for hearing and vision-impaired audiences. More >>
A big thumbs up for NZ music industry
Friday, 22 November 2013, 9:15 am | NZ On Air
Tonight's Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards showed that local music is in good heart. “Great music can only flourish in an environment where artists are supported, appreciated and celebrated, by the industry and audiences. More >>
NZ On Air: great local content and appreciative audiences
Thursday, 14 November 2013, 2:18 pm | NZ On Air
New Zealanders are changing the way they consume media, and NZ On Air’s latest Annual Report highlights how this is driving change in the way the funding agency approaches funding local content. More >>
NZ On Air supports Radio NZ to reach new audience
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 5:07 pm | NZ On Air
NZ On Air is very pleased to announce support for Radio New Zealand’s new online project The Wireless . More >>
‘Poly-portal’ creates online home for Pacific communities
Wednesday, 30 October 2013, 4:11 pm | NZ On Air
NZ On Air is proud to have supported the brand new online project thecoconet.tv. thecoconet.tv is the first Pacific portal of its kind, featuring webisodes, animation, a 3D historic timeline, language learning games and daily blogs and vlogs. More >>
Celebrating the best in NZ music
Wednesday, 23 October 2013, 12:18 pm | NZ On Air
Some fresh faces and some familiar faces are in the line up of finalists for the Vodafone NZ Music Awards (Tuis) – NZ On Air congratulates them all. In particular we congratulate the winners of the Technical Tuis announced tonight. More >>
Something for everyone in latest NZ On Air funding
Friday, 18 October 2013, 11:52 am | NZ On Air
NZ On Air is delighted to support a new series for TV3, The Festival, which will take us inside the most important festivals and celebrations of our ethnic communities.This new series joins a stable of programmes made for special interest audiences available ... More >>
Innovation in arts attracts NZ On Air support
Wednesday, 16 October 2013, 3:55 pm | NZ On Air
Five boundary-pushing digital media projects that between them will make history and street art accessible, develop young story-tellers, and entertain children, have been selected for funding from NZ On Air’s Ignite Digital Media Fund. More >>
