Television New Zealand Limited

TVNZ News story - Wednesday 28th September 2022 - Benedict Collins Kantar Poll

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to L Barrington on October 27, 2022.

Awaiting classification.

Dear Lisa Our response to your request of 28 September is attached. Regards Official Information Act Requests e. [1][TVNZ reque...

Funding for speaking Maori

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Liz Simons on August 06, 2021.

Information not held.

Dear Ms Simons TVNZ neither claims nor receives any funding specifically for speaking Māori on air. However there are some programmes which attract...

Ratings Information for the Second Season of TVNZ OnDemand Series, BossBabes

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Alex Janssen on April 22, 2020.

Successful.

Dear Alex I can confirm that the first episode of Season 2 of Boss Babes was streamed 22,346 times, in the period you have requested. In addition, th...

News story research process

Request to Television New Zealand Limited by John Sims. Annotated by Luke C on April 07, 2022.

Awaiting classification.

In relation to the first point, I'm not convinced that 9(2)(a) applies as the name and suburb is likely to be in the electoral role, which is available...

Re-enactment footage in a news item about a current court case

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Gareth Watkins on March 07, 2022.

Partially successful.

Dear Mr Watkins Please find attached our further letter and attachment. Regards Brent McAnulty General Counsel & Corporate Affairs Director Michele...

Passing of the Queen

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Luke on February 10, 2022.

Successful.

Hi Luke We can confirm that we have considerable procedures in place. These involve interrupting regular programming for extended periods, appropriate...

Three Waters - Jacinda Ardern - why no questions during interviews?

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Micky Turner on December 13, 2021.

Successful.

Hi Micky My apologies, in answering about Three Waters I omitted the answer relating to contact with the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister does not...

Uttar Pradesh - population 205 million - only 20 covid cases a day - Ivermectin?

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Micky Turner on October 21, 2021.

Successful.

Dear Micky I can confirm we have not made any contact with any health officials in Uttar Pradesh, and therefore no correspondence exists. Regards Br...

Advertising Revenue from Pharmaceutical Companies

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Micky Turner on October 21, 2021.

Successful.

Dear Micky I refer to your request below. The total amount received from pharmaceutical companies is approximately $23.9m over the period. This amoun...

Has TVNZ received any funding to provide coverage of the COP21 Climate Conference.

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Jason Payn on October 22, 2021.

Awaiting classification.

Dear Jason Your email of 21 October requesting information related to any funding to TVNZ for coverage of the COP26 Climate Summit has been rece...

Script for "They Are Us"

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Victoria Muninn on October 04, 2021.

Awaiting classification.

Dear Victoria TVNZ does not hold and has not held a copy of the script. Section 18(e) of the Act therefore applies. You may be confusing us with anot...

Reasons for video of interview take-down Paul Henry - John Key (9 Aug 2009)

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to greg rzesniowiecki on October 25, 2017.

Partially successful.

Dear Mr Rzesniowiecki I refer to your request of 27 September regarding the unavailability of a video clip previously made available on our news webs...

OIA Requests: Documents relating to decision to cut to ads during moment of silence.

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to David Johnston on September 08, 2021.

Awaiting classification.

Hi again David I have checked and there is only document we hold regarding TVNZ's decision to run advertising during coverage of the Tokyo 2020...

Annual Reports

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Connor Miller on August 24, 2021.

Successful.

Kia ora Connor I refer to your request below. TVNZ only prints a very small amount of copies for compliance purposes, as required by Parliament. We t...

A video Copy of the Jessica Mutch-McKay / Helen Clark Book launch interview 1-11/9/2018

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Aunty Helen Publishing Ltd (Name reserved at the Company's Office) on June 04, 2019.

Successful.

Dear Mr Benson All licensing requests can be made via our website: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/licensing/footage-licensing. Please note that there will be...

Paying for stories

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to John Sims on July 03, 2019.

Successful.

Dear John I refer to your request below. Aside from our own employees and contractors, TVNZ does not pay people to feature in or provide information...

Viewer numbers for Q + A with Jack Tame

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Lily on July 07, 2020.

Successful.

Dear Lily, I refer to your request regarding viewer numbers for Q+A with Jack Tame. Q+A aired on Sunday mornings for several years, before switching...

Does TVNZ have a "Doomsday" clip?

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Craig Major on November 30, 2020.

Information not held.

Dear Mr Major I refer to your request below. TVNZ has no such clip prepared and in a “doomsday scenario” we would expect to remain broadcasting unt...

Use of Aotearoa instead of New Zealand

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Liz Simons on July 01, 2021.

Successful.

Dear Ms Simons As we have mentioned in our correspondence below, our creators and presenters are given autonomy over using English and te reo Māori in...

Purpose of the STAGE app

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Liam on August 18, 2021.

Successful.

Kia ora Liam We have no plans to release a new VOD service at this time. We regularly release updates to our existing app and this is part of that pro...

Doctors' Letter Concerning COVID-19 Vaccine

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Ross Francis on May 27, 2021.

Information not held.

Dear Mr Francis I refer to your request below under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) relating to a 1 News story broadcast on 14 May 2021 e...

Christchurch Civic Creche (Peter Ellis) Case

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Ross Francis on April 13, 2021.

Information not held.

Dear Ross Unfortunately, due to the age of the information you have requested it is no longer held by TVNZ. Therefore Section 18(e) of the Act applies...

The results of the 2020 election Vote Compass question on gender self-identification

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Beth Johnson on December 22, 2020.

Successful.

Dear Beth I refer to your request below. While we asked that question, like many posed within Vote Compass we did not run a story on the outcomes....

Apprentice NZ: Trump rights and royalties.

Follow up sent to Television New Zealand Limited by Eric Crampton on November 30, 2020.

Information not held.

Thanks for that. I couldn't tell either; thought I'd ask as you might have checked before buying the rights. Yours sincerely, Eric Crampton

Annual Reports 1980s

Response by Television New Zealand Limited to Tom Kennedy on September 26, 2018.

Information not held.

Dear Mr Kennedy I refer to your email of 17 September requesting copies of TVNZ’s annual reports between 1980 and 1990. TVNZ no longer ho...

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