The death of a genre? Television current affairs programmes on New Zealand Public Television

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aut.conference.typePaper Published in Proceedings
aut.researcherBaker, Sarah
dark.contributor.authorBaker, S
dc.contributor.authorBaker, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-05T21:38:31Z
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-05T22:49:30Z
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-05T22:49:55Z
dc.date.available2012-06-05T21:38:31Z
dc.date.available2012-06-05T22:49:30Z
dc.date.available2012-06-05T22:49:55Z
dc.date.copyright2007
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstract“We need the angry buzz of current affairs programmes” (Professor Sylvia Harvey in Holland, 2006, p. iv). “In a public system, television producers acquire money to make programmes. In a commercial system they make programmes to acquire money” (Tracey, 1998, p.18). Television current affairs programmes have from their inception been a flagship genre in the schedules of public service broadcasters. As a television form they were to background, contextualise and examine in depth issues which may have appeared in the news. They clearly met the public broadcasters' brief to 'inform and educate' and contribute to the notional 'public sphere'. Over the past two decades policies of deregulation and the impact of new media technologies have arguably diminished the role of public broadcasting and profoundly affected the resources available for current or public affairs television with subsequent impacts on its forms and importance. This paper looks at the output of one public broadcaster, Television New Zealand (TVNZ), and examines its current affairs programming through this period of change.
dc.identifier.citationAustralian New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) 2007 Conference Communications, Civics, Industry held at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10292/4323
dc.publisherAustralian New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA)
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dc.relation.replaces10292/4320
dc.relation.replaceshttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/4322
dc.relation.replaces10292/4322
dc.relation.urihttp://www.anzca.net/conferences/anzca07proceedings.html
dc.rightsCopyright for all refereed papers published in the proceedings is jointly owned by the author(s), ANZCA and La Trobe University.
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dc.titleThe death of a genre? Television current affairs programmes on New Zealand Public Television
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