MPs ‘rubbish’ government reasons for cutting off TVNZ7 funding

New Zealand First MP Andrew Williams, Greens MP Julie Anne Genter, Labour MP Clare Curran and Dr Joe Atkinson from the University of Auckland. Photo: Alex Perrottet/PMC
Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Alex Perrottet of Pacific Media Watch
The New Zealand government’s reasons for cutting funding to Television NZ have been “rubbished” at a public meeting in Auckland last night.
Members of Parliament and about 300 members of the public met at the Freemans Bay Community Hall and stood as a white coffin displaying the epitaph “Public service television” and draped with a New Zealand Flag was carried in.
Labour MP Clare Curran said the last Labour government invested $79 million in the new channels TVNZ 6 and 7. She said they were important, taking the country into the digital environment. Read more »

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