Greetings from DEGANZ for 2024! Currently overseas on a personal trip and headed back as I write this. I’ve had a couple of goes at this op-ed but still felt I wasn’t getting the tone right. As I reflect back on what has passed and what we face in 2024, it’s hard not to be […]
You’d have thought things might have settled after the COVID years. But, no, it’s still crazy. And what a year it’s been. The long mooted merger of TVNZ and RNZ finally fell over. The $60 million taken away from NZ On Air returned with an additional one-off $10 million. The New Zealand Screen Production Grant, […]
I’m personally thrilled to see SPADA coming out strongly for a levy on streamers recently. It’s something I’ve been advocating for in this column going back four years, ‘Show Me the Money’, ‘Time for a Reset’, ‘An Answer to NZ’s Broadcasting Industry Dilemma?’ and most recently this year in this Stuff article here. Across the Tasman, […]
NZ On Air’s Where Are the Audiences Survey 2023 confirmed what previous reports have been warning of—the death of linear television in New Zealand. (WATA research here.) Three telling points were highlighted in the document that attest to this: • All traditional media continue to show consistently declining audiences, with TV no longer attracting the […]
By the time you read this the Writer’s Guild of America’s (WGA) strike will be over. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists’ (AFTRA)—not yet. So what can we take from the strikes? I saw one placard from the picket lines I thought was very pertinent: A Career Not […]