The sweeping changes come as the network grapples with an operational model that’s proving more costly than its generated revenue, despite a hefty $40 million investment in news and current affairs.
In what was a ‘difficult day’ for the State broadcaster, close to 70 employees are set to lose their jobs.
O’Donnell said no show is safe from potential cuts, underlining the broad scope of the review aimed at ensuring the company’s sustainability amidst declining advertising revenue and the shift to digital platforms.
O’Donnell told legacy media the decision was based on the necessity to align the operating model with current financial realities, pointing out the intense competition from global giants like Google and Meta which dominate digital advertising. TVNZ remained, however, committed to a digital-first approach promising to support its staff throughout the transition.
The cuts have sparked reactions from across the board, including former Fair Go host Kevin Milne who said the programme been a cornerstone of consumer rights in New Zealand for nearly half a century.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon also commented on the situation, acknowledging the tough times faced by TVNZ employees and the broader challenges within the media industry.
How would that feel, to find out you are not one of the chosen ones. Reality is a b****
Yes we have moved to digital platforms. Why? Too much propaganda with the news.
Who do those overpaid communist Marxist mouthpieces think they are?
We warned them, go woke go broke.
We got sick of all the ads and the programmes full of smut. The brainwashing, the one sided stories, the outright lies and the forced te Reo was the final straw I am afraid.
The audience is lost forever. Real journalism is dead. No one wants some childless newly graduated pimply 20 year old (or 40 year old) with no real world experience’s opinion. We just want the bloody facts thank you! If TVNZ really wants to go broke for good they should hire Tova Obrien. That should do the trick 😂
The level of cognitive dissonance and utter lack of self awareness shows you the true moral compass (non existent) and utter stupidity and frankly naivety mixed in with arrogance, displayed by these paid off narcissists.
Now sit back and watch as they attack and blame everyone else and then turn on each other as they go down. Hand me the popcorn, I love to see it. 😂😂😂
Two things could have saved them, a moral compass and self reflection. Best they consult their dictionary as to the meaning of the term “useful idiot” and thank Jacinda Ardern for the opportunity to know what one is.
They can’t and they won’t. These are overgrown Marxist children incapable of any kind of self reflection or introspection.
They’ll keep blaming their decline on Google and Facebook (which have been around for like 2 decades now BTW) and “the changing landscape” (whatever the hell that’s supposed to mean). It’s not like they didn’t have a website or a Facebook page or a social media app or anything… The denial is strong with these people.
But whatever, it doesn’t really matter WHY there’re gone. As long as they’re gone.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Oh dear, how sad… never mind
Being an unemployed communist TV presenter must be slightly difficult.
Oh well, whatever.
Huh, so there’s no money in communist woke propaganda.
Who’d have thunk it.
Intersting.
Instant karma.
How can this business still call itself tvnz when 95% of the programming is foreign?
Nz talent languishes while foreigners take our jobs.
Our culture is smothered with lowest common denominator pap.
Mc tv. Low grade, low integrity groomerican corporate brainwashing.
Pretty obvious that the homogenous mass of NPCs are tv heads. Fecklessly parrotting their programming and living out their normalisation as their tv has trained them to.
What could have been the most educational and unifying medium has been hijacked to herd the homogenous mass into fear and submission. Such criminal treason deserves severe penalty.
I totally agree.
We The People had ENOUGH!
Oh no!
Whatever will I do without being gaslit by NZ MSM.
Now I’ll need to learn to think for myself.
I’m so frightened.
Politics. Tv1 trying to blackmail the government with cutting its best rated shows (fair go and Sunday) . Tv Nz are playing games even when under pressure.
Your over the top Maori speaking station and government bashing has not helped your cause.
Fair Go needs to be saved, as it helps the New Zealand Consumer. The many years that the program has been on shows that it has excellent viability.
It also exposes the everyday methods of corruption that many businesses and individuals have employed to lie, cheat, deceive and steal from New Zealanders.
The morning shows (AM, Breakfast) and the 7 PM shows (Hillary “I think that all unvaccinated people should be dumped on an island” Barry) are all woke, politically-correct meaningless banter where the ‘hosts’ have gone out of their way to insult the public’s intelligence, and then smirks on camera with contempt for those who are paying their salaries.
Maybe Mike McRoberts and Janika Ter Ellen can go to Al-Jazeera, just as Tom McCray has.
Insofar as news bulletins, these should be uncensored and offered in a teletext format where one can view the same at any time, similar to Freeview Channel 50.
We noted the sponsors of some of the programming, and any business that advertises which is Zionist-owned we no longer patronise.
Perhaps that has helped with ‘flushing the media toilet’…!
Here come the TV Reception Licences…
However-if these do come back, there had better be educational, informative programming ie
1. The Discovery Channel
2. The Learning Channel
3. The History Channel
4. National Geographic Channel
5. Home-Schooling Channel
6. Sky News Australia
7. Sky News UK
8. Rush
9. Duke (full time)
10. TVNZ / RNZ
That’s a minimum line-up
We can do away with shopping channels, infomercials, and religious channels as well! Having ‘+1’ channels dropped as these are a waste of channel space, as the DVD recorders can record the programs in place of ‘+1’.
The Chinese Channels should be mandated to have English-language translations at the bottom of the screen.
There should also be a Hindi Channel with the same translations in English as we..
Just throw your tv out the window, discover real life. Now we need to get all the medical misadventure promoters into there next job, LEG IRON models. that would suit all the cuties
I’m crying with laughter.
Good riddance to the tax-payer funded thieving woke communists.
Now get a proper job at McDonalds.
Would you like fries with that?
They then go from one Zionist owned business (the MSM) to another (Maccas), which is posting losses due to the J***** / Zionist treatment of the Palestinians for 75 years!!!
The boycotts are working against the woke Zionist owned exponential businesses.
& remember Hillary; ‘Take a fry, make a fry’!
Those on the Breakfast and AM Shows; you can make the Egg McMuffins, since you’re used to getting up at 5 AM…
BAWHAWHAWHAWHAW…!
They sold their souls only to find out they’re entirely dispensable.
Tough luck losers.
Not far from the Penthouse,to the s*** house good riddance TVNZ.