Broadcasting Portfolio: Fully funding public broadcasting

Publicly funded broadcasting should be restricted to news, culture, local arts, and documentaries. We need to get out of funding movies and TV shows (directly, or by changing the law) that are aimed at an international audience and concentrate on our country.

We shouldn't try and compete with international entertainment using public funds. We need better journalism and in depth analysis of our own stories more.

I am sure someone will bring up the benefits from LOTR and the Hobbit and yes, we now have a $3B movie sector. However, that sector needs to learn to continue and grow without public funding on it's own merits.

I would fully recommend and endorse this.

Publicly funded broadcasting should be restricted to news, culture, local arts, and documentaries. We need to get out of funding movies and TV shows (directly, or by changing the law) that are aimed at an international audience and concentrate on our country.

Movies and TV shows are part of our culture and a way to show that culture.

However, that sector needs to learn to continue and grow without public funding on it's own merits.

Entertainment is always funded by everyone because everyone needs it and so it should be freely available to everyone.

Publicly fund it, have it all freely available in NZ and sell it overseas.

The internet party should recognise that public broadcasting is dead. We should free up the radio spectrum for more useful technologies.

Is it?

And what other technologies are you talking about?

Point-point cellular and wi-fi. More operators, more competition, better service, range and lower prices.

The only remaining bastions of linear broadcasting are live events such as sport, and even that is rapidly moving to the web. VoD is so much more convenient.

More operators, more competition, better service, range and lower prices.

More resource use, more people required, higher prices.

That's the reality of competition. It costs more.

The question is if the added cost is worth it and I don't think it is with broadcasting.

I had a look at the last link in @taneharre's post - the Better Broadcasting platform - I fully agree with all the points on it. Should we start a vote to outright adopt it? Seems very well reasoned and well developed as is

The resources are already being used. At great cost for little return.

The added competition would be in the telco space which is currently an oligopoly. Unless you think Oligopolies or Monopolies are better than competitive markets?

The resources are already being used. At great cost for little return.

To provide competition requires more resources and more bureaucracy.

And we're always paying for the use no matter what. Private companies get a profit from what we pay. In other words, we always lose out.

If the state is running it then it doesn't need the profit and we're simply paying ourselves. The return is measured in social benefit to everyone.

The added competition would be in the telco space which is currently an oligopoly. Unless you think Oligopolies or Monopolies are better than competitive markets?

In broadcast and telecommunications a state monopoly is the best option. You then look for competition in the production of services delivered across the medium.

Interesting thread.... I will have a look st the links and speak to the points raised... Broadcasting and the arts are the portfolios that i am most drawn to. I see that here in aotearoa we have lost our way in terms of free to air content. I feel that we must push fir public broadcasting so to counter the corporate narritive thst has attempted to silence critical thought and diversity. I see that we need this and we need it now. We need our voices to be heard we need our music art abd culture to be supported and we need an ability to speak truth to power... The recent right wing crucifixtion of meteria is a recent example of the reasons why we need this...