MEDIAWATCH: Latest news on RNZ/TVNZ merger should make private media happy – but Melissa Lee wants more Fuck Boy Island
Groan. Here we go.
Revealed: TVNZ will lose $100m in advertising revenue by the end of the decade
The Government’s new public media entity will witness the loss of a third of TVNZ’s existing commercial revenue, equating to about $100 million a year, within five years, according to advice from officials.
This lost revenue will need to be supplemented by taxpayer funding from the Crown, which is forecast to contribute $211m a year to the entity over 30 years, roughly half of which will be used to plug the shortfall in advertising.
The commercial details were revealed in a late draft of a business case for the Government’s RNZ-TVNZ merger, obtained by the National Party.
The party’s broadcasting spokeswoman Melissa Lee said the documents showed the Government was wilfully destroying TVNZ’s commercial model and forcing the taxpayer to pick up the tab.
Right.
So a TVNZ/RNZ merger will see less crass commercialisation bullshit on the Public Broadcaster to the tune of $100 million, well, that’s $100m that the private media like NZME, Newshub and Mediaworks can pick up!
That’s great!
NZME, Mediaworks and Newshub can broadcast Fuck Boy Island and all its mutant offspring plus all that advertising for that mutation and they can stop bitching about NZ on Air not giving them less money when there’s $100m in advertising out there for them to pick up.
Yet the private media are still bitching aren’t they?
NZME are just like farmers, students and feminists, in that they are always complaining.
TVNZ losing $100m because it isn’t a crass commercial operation any longer simply means that $100m can go to the private media companies for them to compete with, why are they endlessly whinging and pretending that’s politics?
Melissa Lee is a joke Public Broadcasting Spokesperson who is effectively arguing for more Fuck Boy Island on TVNZ, not less.
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What is the 100 million currently spent on?
if the current low brow shit content is consequently reduced then the 100 million spent on producing it won’t be missed either.
What’s not to like?
According to Damien Grant today in Stuff…
“RNZ and TVNZ will be merged into a new entity under the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media Bill and, by law, this new entity must be governed by a board that has skills and experience in te ao Māori and tikanga Māori, and engage with Māori about relevant strategies and policies”.
Whatever the misleading rationale we were given by Labour for this merger, it looks nothing like better broadcasting and journalism that was suggested and entirely about Maori political ideology and control.
A lot of public money spent under the auspices of benefits for the public but zero gain for the public!