Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 3, 2016 17:26:50 GMT 12
MAORI TV: $10.6M, RNZ: ZERO
It is a tale of two broadcasters. Finance Minister Bill English gave Maori Television a $10.6 million boost in the Budget, although it has a $12.9 million nest egg built up over years of taxpayer funding.
Meanwhile, Radio New Zealand is floundering in the eighth year of a funding freeze.
Maori TV gets about $33 million a year from the Crown and from the funding agency Te Mangai Paho combined. Radio NZ gets about $35 million of state funding. For both broadcasters, those sums have not changed for eight years.
But this year Maori TV got another $10.6 million over four years.
Politics plays a role in the public broadcasters' funding. The Government is obliged to reward the Maori Party because of its support….
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11649622
It is a tale of two broadcasters. Finance Minister Bill English gave Maori Television a $10.6 million boost in the Budget, although it has a $12.9 million nest egg built up over years of taxpayer funding.
Meanwhile, Radio New Zealand is floundering in the eighth year of a funding freeze.
Maori TV gets about $33 million a year from the Crown and from the funding agency Te Mangai Paho combined. Radio NZ gets about $35 million of state funding. For both broadcasters, those sums have not changed for eight years.
But this year Maori TV got another $10.6 million over four years.
Politics plays a role in the public broadcasters' funding. The Government is obliged to reward the Maori Party because of its support….
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11649622