When was maori television established

Associate Professor Smith says challenges for the channel include being responsive and accountable to its audiences. We need to have a healthy public space where we can debate these questions, and we need to be robust enough to have that debate, especially given the lack of investment in public service TV more generally.

While the media industry is tied to ratings, Associate Professor Smith regards them as a crude measure of success. Home Contact. Politicians love to argue about television, and they have restructured the system many times. This was funded by an annual licence fee initially six pounds and 10 shillings per home. Within a year, New Zealand television began screening commercials to provide additional funding.

At first advertising took up seven minutes per hour, but half the week remained ad-free. Advertising has gradually increased, so that commercials now occupy about 12 to 14 minutes per hour on the main free-to-air channels.

The only ad-free time is Sunday morning, plus a few public holidays. The licence fee was abolished in In the early days it was assumed that Kiwi viewers would want to watch an equal percentage of programmes from Britain and the United States. But the US has become a more popular source and now provides about half our programmes. Australian dramas have also increased in popularity, starting with soap operas such as The Young Doctors and Neighbours. In recent years New Zealand programmes have made up between a quarter and a third of what is screened on the six main free-to-air channels between 6am and midnight.

But the market is not a level playing field for local production. Even though our programme makers have learned to work in a very economical way, it costs more to make programmes locally than to import them from overseas.

This is because British and American programmes can cover their production costs in their own markets, after which they are happy to pick up a little extra revenue by selling them cheaply to small countries such as New Zealand. Because television is such an important part of our culture, public subsidy is essential to maintain a healthy range of local programmes — hence the existence of the funding body NZ On Air, which was established in A diverse production industry has developed, which includes both large companies experienced in the making of long-running drama and comedy series, and smaller companies which specialise in a particular genre such as the documentary.

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