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RNZ-TVNZ hybrid should be funded by mandatory broadcasting fee

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Dita De Boni Wed, 07 Apr 2021

The mysterious merger proposal to merge RNZ and TVNZ into one body – mysterious because no one understands why it is being pursued with such vigour – points squarely to the political ambivalence at the heart of public broadcasting. 

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Dita De Boni Wed, 07 Apr 2021
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