Proposals to change the unsatisfactory status of two vital heritage institutions are meeting strong resistance from their current host.
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Digital TV's jungle of bungles needs sorting
New Zealand’s switch to digital TV is running smoothly on the home-front – but TV broadcasters are having a rough ride through a jungle of bungles by state agencies.
Read MoreStratos is dead - who's next?
The death of Stratos Television last week is a sad, bad story – and we have not seen the end of it.
Read MoreTVNZ kills ad-free channels to grow profits
Official papers show Television New Zealand won $79 million in government funding for its advertising-free channels TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7, by claiming they would be self-funding by 2012. Now they are closing the new channels down to enhance profits.
Read MoreRugby row raises bigger TV issues
Ructions over free-to-air television coverage of the Rugby World Cup raise major questions about the sustainability of