Television
New Zealand’s television ecology is different from that found anywhere else in the world.
Our tiny community of 4 million people is vulnerable to the mass of English-language programming available cheaply on the global market. We have evolved our own version of public television, distinguished in that it has never had a non-commercial television channel, and that the major component of public funding for television has been contestable for the period since 1989.
New Zealand television operates in a mixed ecology in three senses:
There is a mix of publicly owned organisations and private commercial companies.
Public funding for television is a mix of funding directed at institutions or organisations :
and funding allocated by programme or genre
The state-owned television broadcaster TVNZ operates with mixed objectives – its Charter and its commercial performance.