
Netflix, iTunes face paying GST
John Drinnan says New Zealand plans to impose new tax rules so overseas media companies such as Netflix have to pay GST.
John Drinnan says New Zealand plans to impose new tax rules so overseas media companies such as Netflix have to pay GST.
Paul Henry's new morning show is capturing less than one per cent share of its target demographic according to new AC Neilsen figures.
Kiwi cinema software developer Vista Group International has signed a deal with the second-largest theatre chain in the United States, AMC Theatres.
The judge in the Blessie Gotingco murder trial will take the rare step of asking each jury member whether they can be impartial after they have heard all the evidence.
A men’s magazine has printed its latest issue using ink infused with HIV-positive blood in a bid to break the taboo associated with the disease.
A police officer says he found a "heavily bloodstained" car part hidden in the garage of the man accused of killing Blessie Gotingco.
Sky TV is taking a big step on to the internet with a launch planned for some time in July.
MediaWorks is now wholly owned by United States-based investment funds. Oaktree Capital was this week revealed as having increased its stake in MediaWorks - parent of TV3 - to 78 per cent. Oaktree....
After a lift in ratings, broadcaster MediaWorks has extended the review of the Campbell Live indefinitely.
An Auckland Council entity has commissioned a study into Hobsonville Point land becoming this city's Wellywood.
An unusual aspect of the campaign to save Campbell Live is the number of people who see political meddling as a factor in its likely demise.
Current affairs producer Briar McCormack has resigned from TVNZ and is the third senior female manager to leave the newsroom in the past few months.
As fast as they come off the production line, they sensibly up sticks for the big smoke, writes Bob Jones. "There's a reverse flow from city to country by plain, husband-seeking fat girls."
Media studies lecturer Peter Thompson says a finite pot of advertising revenue has made it less attractive to produce local content.
Whatever happens in the John Campbell saga, one thing's for sure. The man will turn up suited up and looking good.
Lightbox, MediaWorks, SKY and TVNZ have announced they are going ahead with legal action against CallPlus over the company's Global Mode service.
John Drinnan on Fairfax Media's Herculean task in trying to rescue its huge photo archive from a legal quagmire.
There is an ideological dimension to this, writes Paul Thomas. If Campbell was studiously apolitical or unapologetically conservative, would he be getting the same level of support from the same people?
Left-wing intellectuals who accused the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo of going too far by publishing drawings of the Prophet Mohammad are guilty of "disgusting paternalism".
New Zealand On Air says it was unaware that its funding of the new 3D Investigates programme would lead to TV3 cutting half an hour off 3News on Sunday nights.
Don't want to see John Campbell leave your TV screen in the evenings? Then put these seven ways to save Campbell Live into action.
Fairfax Media's decision to ship up to eight million historic NZ news photographs and negatives to Little Rock, Arkansas, for "digitising" has proved perilous.