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Is Video Killing The Public Radio Star?
Friday, 29 September 2023, 9:29 pm | Tom Frewen
The next government’s broadcasting and media minister, if this outmoded cabinet portfolio survives the election, will face the challenge of untangling the unholy mess that Labour’s three broadcasting ministers have made of state-owned television ... More >>
Paradigm Lost – Radio Back On
Tuesday, 7 March 2023, 2:13 pm | Tom Frewen
By Tom Frewen Noel Leeming in Levin stocks eight portable radios ranging in price from around $90 down to $35 for pocket transistor radios — the most popular personal electronic communication device before the Walkman and the iPhone. Powered More >>
Unfinished Business On RNZ Charter
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 3:35 pm | Tom Frewen
The wheels on Labour’s broadcasting policy could be set to fall off next week when Broadcasting and Media Minister Willy Jackson has to reveal why Parliament failed to complete the final stage of its Review of the Radio New Zealand’s Charter. The ... More >>
Merger Charterchat Part 5
Friday, 1 April 2022, 4:48 pm | Tom Frewen
Russian state media’s slavish adherence to the Kremlin’s line that the invasion of Ukraine is simply a “special military operation” may be partly explained by the very real threat that an oppressive tryanny poses to life and liberty of journalists ... More >>
Merger Charterchat Part 4
Friday, 1 April 2022, 9:31 am | Tom Frewen
Instead of the much-anticipated ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil the shiny new model of a modern public media entity, fully future-proofed and hot-to-trot, Labour’s Broadcasting and Communications Minister, Kris Faafoi, proudly announced the creation ... More >>
Merger Charterchat - Part 3
Friday, 18 March 2022, 2:09 pm | Tom Frewen
“Thank you very much for inviting us to appear before you again,” said Bernadette Cavanagh, chief executive of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, responding in kind to the welcome extended by Angie Warren-Clark on behalf of the Social Services ... More >>
Merger Charterchat Part 2
Wednesday, 16 March 2022, 4:40 pm | Tom Frewen
The more Radio New Zealand’s chief executive, Paul Thompson, talked up the wonders of the Government’s new public media entity, the faster I counted my spoons. Like an old-fashioned encyclopedia salesman with his foot in the door, Thompson is trying ... More >>
Merger Charterchat – Part One
Monday, 14 March 2022, 10:14 am | Tom Frewen
(Charterchat is a variation of Doublespeak — a language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words — which is related to George Orwell’s Newspeak and Doublethink in his novel Nineteen Eighty-four, warning of ... More >>
RNZ Magna Charter Part 7: Treaty Yes; Radio No
Thursday, 2 September 2021, 4:51 pm | Tom Frewen
Radio New Zealand wants just two changes to its Charter — insertion of a clause “embedding” the Treaty of Waitangi and removal of its description as a public radio company. In its submission to the inquiry into review of its Charter being ... More >>
RNZ Magna Charter Part 6 – Govt Meddling With RNZ Review
Monday, 30 August 2021, 11:24 am | Tom Frewen
The Parliamentary Inquiry into the Review of Radio New Zealand’s Charter heard its first public submissions on Thursday 26 August. With Parliament shuttered under Covid-19 Level 4 restrictions, three people made submissions via Zoom to the five ... More >>
RNZ Magna Charter Part 5 – Beyond The Spin
Wednesday, 11 August 2021, 4:31 pm | Tom Frewen
Broadcasting and Media Minister Kris Faafoi was warned when Radio New Zealand’s management revealed their plan to replace classical music on its quality stereo FM broadcast frequency with a youth-oriented programme that RNZ risked “acting in ... More >>
RNZ’s Magna Charter – Part 4
Thursday, 5 August 2021, 11:10 am | Tom Frewen
The parliamentary inquiry into Radio New Zealand’s Charter Review is significant for several reasons, not least of them the Economic Development, Science and Innovation (EDSI) select committee’s decision to proceed with it against the wishes of the ... More >>
RNZ’s Magna Charter – Part 3
Thursday, 17 June 2021, 9:15 am | Tom Frewen
The utter shambles that has developed under Labour’s Broadcasting and Media Minister Kris Faafoi, a former TVNZ political reporter, is revealed in correspondence between his office and the Ministry of Culture and Heritage obtained under the Official Information ... More >>
RNZ’s Magna Charter – 2
Thursday, 10 June 2021, 8:51 am | Tom Frewen
The words “charter” and “charter obligations” are prominent in Radio New Zealand’s 2019 strategy document “The Music Opportunity” which unveiled its staggering ambition to double its total audience from 600,000 people to one million More >>
RNZ's Magna Charter - 1
Monday, 3 May 2021, 9:15 am | Tom Frewen
Two significant events occurred when Parliament resumed after Easter on Tuesday 6 April: the Prime Minister Jacinda Adern revealed her Cabinet’s choice of Monday 19 April as the date for ending Covid-19 restrictions on trans-Tasman travel; and ... More >>
Classic Blunder - The Sequel, Final Part
Thursday, 1 April 2021, 4:27 pm | Tom Frewen
In what TV reporters call “a bizarre new twist” the long-running saga of Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi’s search for a business case for his new media entity has stolen its latest plot line straight out of Noddy Goes to Toyland. In the first of ... More >>
Classic Blunder - The Sequel, Part 9
Tuesday, 30 March 2021, 4:47 pm | Tom Frewen
Good News/Bad News: The Good News is that Parliament will review Radio New Zealand’s Charter after all, cancelling out the Bad News that Broadcasting Minister, Kris Faafoi, refuses to guarantee the future existence of Concert FM. As reported in the previous ... More >>
Classic Blunder: The Sequel - Part 8
Wednesday, 24 March 2021, 12:40 pm | Tom Frewen
If Radio New Zealand’s board and management had not been forced to withdraw their plan to replace RNZ’s classical music programme with content aimed at the 18-34-year-old demographic, Concert FM’s audience would now be using their television sets, mobile ... More >>
RNZ's Classic Blunder: The Sequel - Part 7
Thursday, 18 March 2021, 9:13 am | Tom Frewen
Radio New Zealand’s plan to defenestrate its Concert FM classical music network, stillborn and hastily withdrawn at the start of last year, was the surprisingly mute elephant in the middle of the select committee room when the public radio broadcaster’s ... More >>
Classic Blunder: The Sequel - Part 6
Monday, 8 March 2021, 9:08 am | Tom Frewen
Radio New Zealand board chairman, Dr James Mather — “Chairman Jim” to his chief executive, Paul Thompson — didn’t volunteer any information about the public broadcaster’s exciting new youth music platform because there was no news to share. ... More >>
