The radical restructuring of New Zealand broadcasting (television in particular), beginning in the late 1980s and accelerating during the 1990s, is probably without peer in the rest of the world. This article backgrounds the origins of such changes, and traces the consequences (both positive and negative) which shaped, and continue to shape, the role and imperatives of television in New Zealand. But the discussion also takes account of more looming changes, with the 1999 election win of the Labour-Alliance and its declared intentions to reorient television towards more public-service objectives.
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