NZ Produces More TV Shows Than Australia Fact Check

New Zealand society, culture, politics and history have been reflected in locally made content. However, the proportion of local content on screen has generally been lower than in other English-speaking countries. New Zealand’s small market size accentuated problems arising from the high cost of TV production, and its predominantly English-speaking population meant viewers were highly receptive to a continuing flow of imported English-language programmes.

By formalising the importance of outsourcing rather than in-house production of programmes, NZ On Air and its contestable funding model stimulated the expansion of New Zealand’s independent production sector, which flourished during the 1990s.

New Zealanders enjoyed slightly more new local television content last year but less local content in prime time. The Local Content Report, a study of local content on mainstream channels that NZ On Air has prepared since 1989, shows relatively steady levels of local content in a challenging ...

Young NZers are continuing to lead a march away from traditional media, Netflix is still growing at pace, but TV is still the media NZers spend the most time...

Find information about Australian productions, and co-productions with Australia, including key cast and creatives, duration, genre, co-production partners, international sales contacts, website links and more · Screen Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which ...

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Television, more are happy to pay the relatively lower rates for SVOD (of which Netflix is the dominant · platform) and music streaming services (of which Spotify is the most used). This has meant some free to air · options, such as provided by TVNZ 1 and Radio NZ have seen relatively stable audiences, although there is

In a few short months, New Zealand is likely to lose about 20 percent of its journalists and television news producers. “We’ve had death by a thousand cuts going on for at least a decade in New Zealand,” said Colin Peacock, the producer and presenter of the Radio New Zealand show Mediawatch. “This feels like a tipping point.”

Rather than continuing to be used to directly fund TVNZ and RNZ, the licence fee, now called the broadcasting fee, was to be used for local content production and the state funding for non-commercial broadcasting in radio and television on a contestable basis. As part of wide-ranging reforms in the broadcasting sector, the Labour government of David Lange established the Broadcasting Commission, which became known as and finally called NZ On Air.