Time to light up the NBC airwaves
The NBC is a shadow of its former self. The provincial Kundu service, following years of neglect, has become an unproductive shambles. The flagship Karai service has a weak signal. And the 'cash cow'...
View ArticleFiji TV's struggle for good service
Fiji TV has behaved in the fashion of most commercial broadcasters: it has sought popular programming, and it has built a respected independent news bulletin. But politicians want news that is...
View ArticleHaving fun playing God
Fiji lawyer Richard Naidu filed a personal judical review action against Fiji Islands Minister for Telecommunication Ratu Inoke Kubuabola's decision to direct Fiji TV to broadcast the Hongkong Sevens...
View ArticleTV talk in PNG: A search for policy in a weak state
The reasons for the nation-state's weakness are many, but the course of TV talk over the last 10 years in Papua New Guinea reveals one reason in particular: the sacrifice of long-term-state-building to...
View ArticleUnique flavour of Pacific public radio
It was a pleasure to open Robert Seward's Radio Happy Isles to find an excellent summation of some of the intricacies of radio media at work in the small island countries, both below and above the...
View ArticleA ‘heart to heart’ on race relations: TVNZ’s State of the Nation as public...
This article considers TVNZ's audience discussion programme, State of the Nation, as a moment of public sphere discourse.Keywords: indigenous public sphererace relationsNew...
View ArticleDifferent strokes for different folk: Regulatory distinctions in New Zealand...
For much of the past century there was broad acceptance of the stark contrast between the state’s involvement in the regulation of the content of broadcasting and its laissez-faire relationship with...
View ArticleNZ watchdogs must keep up with media’s changing face
A discussion paper released by the New Zealand Law Commission just before the end of 2011 looked into how well the regulatory framework governing the NZ media was working, and concluded that change was...
View ArticleThe moment of Leveson: Beyond ‘First Amendment fundamentalism’ in news...
Australian discussion of the Leveson Inquiry has started and finished at asking whether ‘we’ suffer from precisely the same ethical malaise that led to phone-hacking in the United Kingdom. Yet as...
View ArticleRadio New Zealand International: Reporting the Pacific in tight times
Radio New Zealand International (RNZI) broadcasts from New Zealand into the South Pacific and is relayed to South Pacific listeners by their various national news services. In 2006, American academic...
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