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    BACK TO THE FUTURE

    Dec 12, 2021 6 minutes
     by RUSSELL BROWN

    Early in the new year, Cabinet will consider a proposal to merge TVNZ and RNZ into a single public broadcasting entity. The plan, which is very likely to be approved, would be the biggest reform of state broadcasting in decades. The road to it has been long, bumpy – and ultimately circular.

    It begins in 1975, when, in its last few months, the third Labour government unbundled the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC), splitting it into three organisations: TV1, the new TV2 and Radio New Zealand (RNZ). Most of the excitement at the time was focused on the unprecedented choice of TV channels, but it was the operational distinction between state TV and radio that would prove a more enduring influence on the media landscape.

    Thirteen years later, the fourth Labour government finished the job, dissolving the now-renamed Broadcasting Corporation of NZ and reconstituting TVNZ and RNZ as separate state-owned enterprises (SOEs) that would

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