"Transmission via FM ... is a great way for broadcasters to reach an audience. All you need is 1 antenna to reach thousands of people, if not millions ... in a big city like Auckland, for example, and that costs the listeners absolutely nothing to receive. There's no data plan, there's no time lag.
#LeonWratt, Director of Content, MediaWorks, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=63971767-6465-4128-ae6c-8c1c525ed3ac
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Last month Mihinarangi Forbes interviewed a Ngāpuhi woman who became a US citizen with their train driver husband, while their adult children decided to keep their NZ citizenship and their green cards. On returning to the US from a whānau visit to Aotearoa, their daughter Everlee Wihongi was detained by ICE over a long since resolved cannabis possession charge. The daughter was then taken to one of the infamous ICE detention centres;
"Removing content standards such as accuracy, balance and fairness, I think invites a significant political risk. You could end up with a rogue media operator with significant market power that chose to ignore them, with impunity. And I think that's politically dangerous, democratically it's indefensible."
#DrPeterThompson, 2026
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=bdb1a4a8-a91f-48a0-ac5e-f81f354a7021
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594762/mediawatch-putting-down-the-watchdog
This is a very complicated issue, and I'm still figuring out what I think.
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All the best of luck to this community - Far North settlement could be first place in NZ to entirely relocate https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/weather/594787/far-north-settlement-could-be-first-place-in-nz-to-entirely-relocate
The marae I affiliate to moved a couple times before landing where it is now. Floods and earthquakes.
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