TVNZ is considering a range of options – including more job and content cuts and possibly big website changes by the end of the year – as it seeks to find $30 million in savings and revenue growth, according to an internal email from its chief executive to staff.
Chief executive Jodi O’Donnell, who has previously stated there are no “sacred cows” as TVNZ embarks on new cost-cutting moves to address a big drop in revenue and a vital new digital-first strategy, has outlined eight areas under review for possible change, including “content and websites that aren’t profitable”.
After the closure of Sunday and Fair Go earlier this year, it is understood that other shows, production and staff, including leaders, are among the cost lines under scrutiny.
“I know that going through strategic change is challenging and that the uncertainty about job security is unsettling,” O’Donnell told staff in the internal email obtained by the Herald.
One source told the Herald: “The digital team are very distressed … given the wording of ‘content and websites that aren’t profitable’.”
If you look at how hell bent this Government is on user pays and privatisation…
Bishop talks up value-capture & congestion charging
Bishop talks up value capture and congestion charging
Infrastructure, Housing and RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop gave a major speech about infrastructure to Local Government New Zealand in Wellington on Friday, including:
talking up the use of value capture, congestion charging, water meters, tolling, and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs);
…the question has to be asked how soon Paul Goldsmith will start pushing for paywalls for TVNZ.
Paywalls are increasingly being used from the Democracy Project to all Newspapers and many media outlets meaning poor people don’t get access to public information which adds to their reliance on misinformation and disinformation.
TVNZ using Paywalls would be a means for National to argue people are showing their trust in TVNZ while providing a revenue stream.
National wants user pays to replace public funding, so why wouldn’t they try Paywalls on as a means to undermine accountability and do it cheaper.
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Martyn – Just another reason to stop funding TVNZ if they go paywall
“You as citizens in a liberal progressive democracy deserve better than a user-pays 4th Estate.”
I wonder, could TVNZ’s shrinking audience reflect a widespread view that they’re a bit too “liberal progressive”?
i stopped watching TV news /reading news papers in 1974 as they only promoted majority prejudice.
Infomercials and junk TV has flooded the dying TV market as TV news and TV itself is going obsolete
as most people are cutting the cord/cable and switching to their prefered niche marketer of movies/sports/news or whatever. Pre the digital age you had to accept what you were given.
Now you can create your own “reality” by choosing what suits your prefered value system.
We may very well be becoming a world of individuals surrounded by strangers we
only see passing in the super market aisles. We will “talk” to people hundreds and thousands
of miles away onlne but never talk to people across the road.
Who wants actually pay twice to watch the shit programmes TVNZ dishes up!
Isn’t taxpayer funding enough…obviously not.
Yeah but… this is your beloved ‘user pays’ at work @ im roger.
This is what your very own self-confessed mindset gives us which is nothing other than pre branded, bleached-anus, gibberish, like you’re own guff. A couple of sentences of puff-piece fuck all which you then expect us to all fawn before which, in reality-land, performs as well as a 40 year old high mileage holden that’s never had an oil change. Look around! We’re in fucking trouble and the bastards who did this to us are well sorted with their billions and millions who can now hide behind a pathetic, neutered tvnz/rnz
flat lining msm who left their teeth at home in a glass of Steradent.
There’s this saying re The Art of War.
“All warfare is based on deception.”
Let’s ask roger douglas and his minions what their take is on that one?
We’ve been knowingly deceived. We were attacked then ransacked for our wealth equalling a high quality of life for us very lucky few AO/NZ’ers but roger douglas knew what he was doing then he and his minions went ahead and did it. They stole 40 years worth of our prosperity and that’s why they must now bury OUR msm lest the truth will out. Just ask seymour? He’s a roger. As is luxon and peters. They could tell you.
The Daily Blog. Does TDB know just how vital it will become as a MSM outlet in the coming months and years. @ Martyn Bradbury and his colleagues must be ever vigilant. I’m fucking serious.
As if TVNZ never promotes disinformation
We have the internet now, no need for TV. I don’t need my news filtered and canned for me by someone else
“We have the internet now, no need for TV. I don’t need my news filtered and canned for me by someone else”
Allow me to interpret: You are happy for the algorithms to feed you internet shite instead of corporate TV shite.
It’s a delusion to think that your news hasn’t been filtered by someone or worse some AI machine.
” Chief executive Jodi O’Donnell, who has previously stated there are no “sacred cows” as TVNZ embarks on new cost-cutting moves to address a big drop in revenue and a vital new digital-first strategy, has outlined eight areas under review for possible change, including “content and websites that aren’t profitable ”
The fact that O’Donnell is earning a decent package along with many others in TVNZ would mean they are prepared to take a pay cut to assist the company to save money ?
Or just continue removing vital public programs and sacking staff.
There has always been a culture of extravagance at TVNZ.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost.
Farewell TVNZ – you won’t be missed.
Watch the audience number half.
Sell it now while it’s worth something
TVNZ goes behind a paywall for some programes ? Then TVNZ will shrivel up and die, as no one will pay to watch their shit.
Paywalls… maybe around some sport. Highly doubtful they would put a paywall on news.
I am glad TDB will remain “free but everyone used to pay for a newspaper.
Remember this. “If you don’t pay for the product, you are the product.”