MEDIAWATCH: How long before the Paywalls come up at TVNZ?
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.
Got to pay for those tax cuts some how .Look out for the increase in ACC levies coming to us very soon .That will be another leap in rego costs for the car to start with then medical centers will be charging $100 for an ACC visit .Dont say they wont because some already charge $25 .
I don’t really care about TVNZ anymore, its so bad I hardly watch it. But I do worry about what these idiots might be planning for RNZ.
Q & A and Country Calendar would make lots of revenue behind a pay wall.
If TVNZ started using paywalls, I think you will find people would stop using TVNZ.
Which would then reduce their ability to generate advertising revenue.
That will become a lose-lose situation.
TVNZ is not long for this world, when your competition is YouTube and Netflix. There is almost no reason to watch anything on TVNZ. In fact, given the amount of nonsense spouted on our local TV channels every day that does nothing but rot your brain, you could argue “good riddance”.
So how do the other Freeview broadcasts pay for the airtime some without advertising?
Freeview is collectively funded by its shareholders, TVNZ, Warner Bros. Discovery, Whakaata Māori and RNZ,
Yep country boy, all those queen Street farmers driving those over sized cars with snorkel s are in bed with the banks.
Putting TVNZ behind a pay wall will not make anyone watch it. TVNZ is going under and no one other than the luvvies will shed a tear.