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Matthew Poole

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:30:14 +1300

If the National Party has an outright majority after the election and doesn’t need support from the Maori Party, I am skeptical that Maori TV will not go the same way a TVNZ 7: funding cut.

Yup. Though, that said, I could see MTV surviving by hitting up the various…

3410

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:43:19 +1300

One News really stuck the knife into Rick Ellis in tonight's item about his leaving.

3410

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:44:29 +1300

Bloody hell. Who will replace Rick Ellis?

Guyon Espiner? :)

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:55:47 +1300

Bloody hell. Who will replace Rick Ellis? A job for one of the boys, if National get back in?

I had better go have my 'talk' about my pitch with TV ONE whilst there is still someone left there.

Spreading the news about the Media 7 SPADA Special around media…

Steve Withers

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:32:26 +1300

If the National Party has an outright majority after the election and doesn’t need support from the Maori Party, I am skeptical that Maori TV will not go the same way a TVNZ 7: funding cut.

Why would they keep it around when their are crony pockets at Sky and…

Graeme Edgeler

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:14:18 +1300

My thought has always been that if TVNZ wants a 7-type channel on the cheap, using it to show all they stuff they own the rights to as part of package deals, but won't (or no longer) will air elsewhere seems a place to start.

Close TVNZ7, and TVNZ will…

Sonia Braid

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:46:12 +1300

I watched the show this morning on TVNZ7 and love the idea of Maori TV becoming the state television station of choice. They've shown they can do inclusive, intelligent television that represents a wider New Zealand perspective.

And soooooo not surprised that Rick Ellis jumped back into IT (with a…

merc

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:33:24 +1300

I just dropped Telstra after many many years; along with Voda probably the worst company I have ever had to deal with, except Telecom...Sky can be pretty gnarly too. Hmmmm all these companies have some things in common.

Russell Brown

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:10:18 +1300

This just in!

Rick Ellis has resigned as CEO of TVNZ:

Mr Ellis will be leading a new Telstra division called Telstra Digital Media, as group managing director – Digital Media, with responsibility for Telstra’s Sensis, Bigpond, Trading Post and IPTV businesses, and Telstra’s partnership with Foxtel.

Public Address

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:10:18 +1300

Discussion from blog post.