Jack Yan (甄爵恩)
ClareBear 💚 
It is poor governance for the TVNZ chair to be seeking the Minister’s opinion on editorial matters. How is that relevant to TVNZ or to the board? It shows that the new chair has little understanding of his role.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2603/S00145/heads-must-roll-if-1news-issued-second-article-as-a-result-of-pressure-from-the-tvnz-board.htm
Bob LeFridge TVNZ reports a sad death following a motor accident, but their lede contains two major errors. They say:
"A person has died of their injuries a week and a half after a two-vehicle crash on a Dunedin motorway."
The accident actually happened out in the wops in an area called Clarks Junction, which the story confirms. For those unfamiliar with the area, you leave Dunedin, pass through Mosgiel and then Outram until you get to Lee Stream. Then you carry on a bit further towards Middlemarch and you finally arrive at Clarks Junction.
Not only is it 50kms from Dunedin, but SH87 is certainly *not* a motorway. There's never any funding for motorways in the lower South Island.
Local journalists would not make this silly mistake. And TVNZ's Auckland crew were too lazy to check the actual location in Google Maps.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/03/01/person-dies-more-than-a-week-after-dunedin-crash/
StrypeyBack in late 2023, I said of TVNZ
"If left to limp along as a for-profit, the few really useful things it still owns (free-to-air broadcast infrastructure, studios, etc) are at risk of neglect and asset stripping."
https://disintermedia.net.nz/reimagining-public-media-in-aotearoa/
What I didn't know at the time was that the broadcast infrastructure is actually owned by a different SOE, Kordia.
But the cancellation of Fair Go and other flagship TVNZ shows was an example of what I meant.
DeadlineNew Zealand Production Body Says Country Risks “Disadvantage” After Australian Streamer Quotas Begin
#News #Australia #Netflix #NewZealand #Spada #Streamingquotas #TVNZ
https://deadline.com/2026/01/new-zealand-producer-warning-australia-streamer-quotas-1236682813/
Watching #TheRideLife on Duke. They put subtitles up for a couple of English northerners. What? The Korean-American host (actor Sung Kang) understood them fine and Iʼm sure most US people would, too! #TV #TVNZ
News BeepMedia Insider: Julian Batchelor v TVNZ defamation hearing – TVNZ news boss reveals outside-court conversation with Peter Williams
O’Sullivan told the court: “He […
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #another #batchelor #boss #case #conversation #court #defamation #details #expert #former #hearing #host #insider #involving #julian #Media #NewZealand #next #NZ #outsidecourt #Peter #private #revealed #reveals #taken #thought #turn #tvnz #what #wild #williams #with #witness
https://www.newsbeep.com/316983/
Talley's defamation case against TVNZ has failed.
In 2023 TVNZ aired news stories using whistle-blowers who alleged safety failures in Talley's fish factories. Talley's case belly-flopped because they could not prove any pecuniary loss. However...
"Justice Jagose said that if Talley’s had proven the publication of the 3 July 2021 broadcast had caused a pecuniary loss, he would have upheld TVNZ’s defence of responsible communication on a matter of public interest, to dismiss Talley’s proceeding."
Honest reporting: 1
Big Smelly Fish: 0
Does the Shortland Street cliffhanger still deliver bang for its buck?
It’s the most wonderful – and deadly – time of the year in Ferndale. Tara Ward watches the…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ChrisWarner #Christmascliffhanger #NewZealand #NZ #PopCulture #ShortlandStreet #ShortlandStreetcliffhanger #tvnz
https://www.newsbeep.com/312403/
