Election 2020 - Party Policies - Broadcasting and Journalism
25th Jul 20, 5:50am
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Broadcasting and Journalism
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- Ensure that current levels of funding for New Zealand on Air from consolidated revenue is maintained.
- Support the production of children's media content with a substantial increase in funding through New Zealand On Air for locally produced children's programming.
- Ensure excessively violent programmes are not scheduled before 10 p.m. at night. Monitor and enforce the TV codes of broadcasting practice on the portrayal of violence, in particular the requirement that channels avoid screening programmes containing gratuitous violence.
- Enact legislation to require television (both broadcast and on-line) to provide media in an accessible format, including captioning, audio-description and New Zealand Sign Language content, and to set a target of 100% captioning for all free to air TV to be phased in over a reasonable timeframe.
- Bring three existing media industry organisations - the Advertising Standards Authority, the Broadcasting Standards Authority and the Press Council - into a common framework based on the principle of responsible self-regulation.
- Secure long term funding and support for the Māori Television Service.
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- Establish a new stand-alone industry led journalism funding entity to manage a contestable "Public Good" journalism fund
- Examine tax deductions for domestic news subscriptions, press patron subscriptions, and large corporate sponsorships of news outlets
- Facilitate collaboration of media entities through simplifying competition rules for merger activities whilst protecting national interest
- Require and mandate Radio New Zealand (RNZ) to support the health of the broadcasting sector by providing shared services, facilities, content, training and staff development, and infrastructure for the wider industry
- Secure and futureproof RNZ Concert as an important entity in our public broadcasting stable noting the station plays a crucial and unique role within the arts sector in New Zealand
- Strengthen RNZ Pacific’s role as an international service that connects New Zealand with our Pacific neighbours
- Enable the broadcasting industry to get efficiency of scale through mandating that TVNZ and other Crown media entities work together in creating efficiencies and capabilities that provide greater value for the New Zealand public
- Release TVNZ from its obligation to return a dividend to the government
- Return Māori Television’s operation to Auckland CBD to enable all Crown media entities to work together and share resources, helping provide greater value for the New Zealand public while ensuring plurality is maintained across the 4th estate and Māori media
- Future proof funding to enable Iwi radio to develop its full potential as valued community radio stations and integral community hubs including as a media training pipeline for rangatahi in provincial New Zealand
- Consider a funding review for Access Radio
- Consider a review into extending the definition of community radio in recognition of the role these other community broadcasters play in New Zealand’s media landscape.
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