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John Drinnan is the Media writer for the New Zealand Herald.
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Commonwealth Games is no excuse for TVNZ decision to drop regular content.
The state-owned broadcaster is already struggling through its culture changes.
Campaign aims to identify abusers, but what about the risk of false accusations?
COMMENT: These are dizzying days for TV current affairs.
Does the Human Rights Commission help — or just add to disagreement?
Sources say a new operation could service a variety of news outlets.
Maori language effort is well-meant, but RNZ needs to sell it to listeners.
Govt isn't requiring state broadcaster to provide public broadcasting.
Labour plan for movie-making employment law will heal old wounds, says Minister.
Freeview and Vodafone have new offers - and new gadgets for TV watchers.
Pressure on NZ On Air means no money for long-running public service programmes.
COMMENT: TVNZ says news and current affairs better left to Canon Media Awards.
COMMENT: Labour Party wants RNZ to move into free-to-air TV, but at what cost?
COMMENT: TVNZ confident in deal with Warner Bros deal after Disney losses.
Broadcaster ponders how to make best use of Mike Hosking's talents.
Bauer Media is interested in buying radio assets, but not from MediaWorks.
COMMENT: Political moves could mean big changes to media ownership.
COMMENT: Labour's leader is being treated like a new Joan of Arc.
NZ On Air funding will support new website for young viewers.
COMMENT: Calling newsreading an 'artistic pursuit' might be a bit rich.
TVNZ says it is happy with the cast of its morning show.
Film festival attracts a big crowd, despite the temptations of the small screen.
How did MediaWorks miss signs that breakfast host Simon Barnett wanted a change?
John Drinnan writes the zagzigger.com site. He receives a free Sky TV service.
Veteran leaving late-night programme, as Radio NZ puts more focus on Auckland.
Politicians are gearing up for a new landscape in run-up to poll.
COMMENT: Government finally ends the 8 years funding freeze on RNZ, John Drinnan writes.
COMMENT: Broadcaster's reinvention has helped its case for more government cash.
COMMENT: Whatever happens to Australian media asset will also affect NZ
COMMENT: Radio NZ offer of free interview series came too late, says TVNZ.
NZ politics provides plenty of raw material, so where is the TV satire?
COMMENT: Media reflects public division over where to draw the line on freedom of speech.
COMMENT: TV, radio bosses depart, and a Commerce Commission delay creates a log jam.
COMMENT: Digital content is a key strategy for the public broadcaster.
COMMENT: One-time Act Party vice-president finds an audience among US conservatives, John Drinnan writes.
More New Zealanders are finding work in American movies and TV shows.
COMMENT: Why should taxpayers own a commercial broadcasting company that offers unexciting returns, John Drinnan writes.
COMMENT: AUT University says it is looking at developing journalism as a skill-set rather than a career prospect, John Drinnan writes.
MediaWorks bosses know better than anyone that the rebranding of TV3 will not send viewers racing to the channel, John Drinnan writes.
COMMENT: Spark is standing by Lightbox amid speculation that it has also signed a deal with Netflix, writes John Drinnan.
COMMENT: TVNZ's new money programme will be 100 per cent funded by Kiwibank, and the funding model could be used again, John Drinnan writes.
COMMENT: Big merger decisions are soon to be revealed, writes John Drinnan.
Yesterday's unveiling of Amazon Prime Video brings more competition to an area where Sky TV once had a monopoly, John Drinnan writes.
COMMENT: TVNZ has defended its live broadcast cross to Joseph Parker - including plugs for his fast food supporters, John Drinnan writes.
COMMENT: New Zealand's funding body must spread its money further, John Drinnan writes.
COMMENT: Momentous times for media, including Facebook - even if it refuses to accept that it is a media company.
COMMENT: The $500,000 proposal to change Auckland's slogan received predictable criticism, writes John Drinnan.
US media will be asking themselves how and why they failed so badly, writes John Drinnan.
COMMENT: Telco is keen to make the move into entertainment.
The BSA has given Mike Hosking the all-clear for his prime-time editorials, but TVNZ says it will look at how they cover issues next year.
COMMENT: The media revolution is about to hit free-to-air TV.
COMMENT: Hal Crawford is now driving broadcaster MediaWorks' news operation.
COMMENT: The Real Housewives' race fiasco rumbles on, with the parties no doubt wishing it would all just go away.
COMMENT: The biggest shake up to NZ On Air is coming, John Drinnan writes.
COMMENT: Growth in online advertising is creating more demand for moving pictures.
COMMENT: Film Commission chief Dave Gibson is half-way through what he has insisted was a single five-year term.
Most politicians have long taken the advice of the lobbyists and kept their noses out of regulating the media business, or giving
COMMENT: The Bravo TV channel and MediaWorks are pleased with a promising start for their fly-on-the-wall show <i>Real Housewives of Auckland</i>.
Free-to-air TV won't face such dramatic upheaval as the print media, believes TVNZ head of television Jeff Latch.
It's old news that some New Zealand media companies are no longer treating each other as the enemy.
COMMENT: It has not been adman Kevin Roberts' finest hour, but I wonder whether he might be secretly pleased.
A New Zealand Post commercial has annoyed some staff, who are upset by the cost at a time when posties are being taken off the streets.
COMMENT: TVNZ's declaration that it will find a prime-time spot for <i>Terry Teo</i> will quieten cries that it might only be shown through OnDemand.
COMMENT: Running the eight-page China Watch PR/propaganda sheet (take your pick) seems self-destructive for this respected media brand.
Paora Maxwell said it was never the intention to remove the word Maori from its brand.
This week some media lambasted the Wellington Rugby Union for issuing a video that faked sideline abuse of referees.
COMMENT: Spark chief executive Simon Moutter hit a nerve calling for Google, Facebook and other global media players to pay their fair share of taxes.
COMMENT: As massive upheavals rip through the media, our state broadcaster has shown an extraordinary sense of timing.
COMMENT: Everyone wants a new partner these days. NZME is eyeing up Fairfax while Vodafone woos Sky.
COMMENT: Another day, another media merger. The combination of Sky TV and Vodafone amounts to a takeover of Sky.
COMMENT: Bill English gave Maori TV n a $10.6 million boost in the Budget, although it has a $12.9 million nest egg built up over years of taxpayer funding.
Sky TV bosses say Television New Zealand is grabbing too much of its exclusive sports footage to use on news bulletins and websites.
Some will see the proposed merger of Fairfax New Zealand and NZME as the beginning of the end of an era for New Zealand media.
COMMENT: Two media giants into one? Changed market makes NZME-Fairfax tie-up a real prospect.