NZ On Air (or the Broadcasting Commission) is an independent New Zealand broadcast funding agency. It is an autonomous crown entity separate from central Government and governed by a Board of six appointed by the Minister of Broadcasting. NZ On Air is responsible for the funding of public-good broadcasting content across television, radio and new media platforms.
NZ On Air is a major investor in television production mostly made by independent producers for free-to-air television channels. The agency also fully funds public broadcaster Radio New Zealand, an intervention to protect the state broadcaster's independence from central Government, and several access and community radio stations. NZ On Air was the name taken by the Commission in an attempt to promote its activities and encourage payment of the broadcasting fee. The public broadcasting fee was abolished in 1999 and NZ On Air now receives its funds through the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
Programmes funded by New Zealand on Air would often have the announcement: This programme was made with the help of your Broadcasting Fee - so you can see more of New Zealand on air (later This programme was made with funding from New Zealand on Air, once the Broadcasting Fee had been abolished). More commonly, at the end of a broadcast, a programme will state: Thank you, New Zealand on Air, for helping us make (name of the show).
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“He will place a tax on the air you breathe and on the bread you eat; he will give you a legislation which is as legitimate as it is unjust and instead of reasons, he’ll give you laws. These will grow in the course of time, until you no longer exist for yourselves but for others.”
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