MediaWorks New Zealand









































Mediaworks
Type
Private
Industry Media
Founded 2004; 15 years ago
Headquarters

Auckland, New Zealand
Area served
New Zealand
Owner Oaktree Capital Management
Divisions Radio (11 brands)
Television (Three/Bravo/The Edge TV)
Interactive (13 websites)
Website Official website

MediaWorks New Zealand is a New Zealand-based television, radio and interactive media company entirely owned by Oaktree Capital Management. It operates playout services from Auckland and Wellington studios via Kordia's microwave network for Newshub, Three, and Bravo, ten national radio brands, eighteen websites and three locally operated radio stations.


In 2004, CanWest Global Communications combined television company TV3 Network Services and radio company RadioWorks to form the new MediaWorks company. On 29 July 2004, 30% of this new company was sold on the NZSX. Three years later, in July 2007, CanWest sold its stake of the company to Ironbridge Capital, a group of Australian investors, who subsequently obtained the remaining 30% from other investors.[1] MediaWorks is significantly larger than any of its other investments.[citation needed]


In 2011, MediaWorks received a $43 million loan guarantee for the Government to renew its licenses until 2030.[2] The deal went against official advice, and then Communications Minister Steven Joyce was accused of having a conflict of interest as the past managing director of the company's RadioWorks division.[3]


The loan was described by AUT's Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy as a form of corporate welfare,[4] and was criticised by blogger Sarah Miles as a case of governmental interference in the media.[5]


Radio Bay of Plenty secured commercial loans, The Radio Network covered its own costs, and Rhema Broadcasting Group covered the cost with no interest loans.[6]


In June 2013, with over NZ$700 million in debt, MediaWorks NZ was put into receivership.[7] It came out of receivership in November 2013. In August 2014, Mark Weldon was appointed CEO, replacing Susan Turner, who had resigned in July 2014.[8]


Weldon resigned in May 2016 at the same time that a large number of long serving and high-profile staff were leaving the company under his leadership. CFO David Chalmers replaced him in an acting capacity.[9]


On 29 April 2015, Oaktree Capital Management took a 77.8% controlling interest in the business.[10] In 2016 Mediaworks linked a deal with NBCUniversal Television Distribution and replaced Four with Bravo.


In late 2016, Michael Anderson was appointed CEO.




Contents






  • 1 History


    • 1.1 Television


    • 1.2 Radio




  • 2 Services


    • 2.1 Television


      • 2.1.1 Television brands




    • 2.2 Radio


      • 2.2.1 Radio brands




    • 2.3 Local services


      • 2.3.1 Local brands and affiliates




    • 2.4 Interactive


      • 2.4.1 Websites


      • 2.4.2 Previous websites






  • 3 Confidentiality and trust


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links





History



Television


Three was founded as TV3 in 1989 after the Fourth Labour government allowed for a private television broadcaster. CanWest obtained TV3 between 1991 and 1997 after the National government loosened rules on foreign ownership. Under CanWest control, TV3 relaunched in March 1998 with a new brand and a 3 News bulletin hosted by John Campbell and Carol Hirschfeld.


MediaWorks was created in 2004, and owned TV3 and C4. In 2005, Hilary Barry & Mike McRoberts became the station's news anchors. TV3 staff also launched youth station TV4 in 1997, and replaced it with C4 in 2003.[1]


In 2009 the timeshift channel TV3 Plus 1 was launched. C4 2 was launched in 2010, then, when Four replaced C4 in 2011, C4 replaced C4 2. In 2014, timeshift channel Four Plus 1 was launched, and The Edge TV replaced C4. In 2016, Bravo and Bravo Plus 1 replaced Four and Four Plus 1.[citation needed]


In 2017, TV3 was rebranded as Three. On 15 April 2018, MediaWorks launched ThreeLife, a lifestyle channel.[11]










































































Ownership

Channel

Year

3
4
8
9
11
14
18
TV3
1989
TV3
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1997
TV4
2003
C4
MediaWorks
2004
2009
TV3 Plus 1
2010

C4 2
2011

Four

C4
2014

Four Plus 1
The Edge TV
2016

Bravo

Bravo Plus 1
2017

Three

ThreePlus1
2018
ThreeLife
The Edge TV

The Edge TV
N/A


Radio





Invercargill's Foveaux Radio was one of several heritage stations to be transitioned to network programming.


MediaWorks inherited most of its radio stations from its namesake RadioWorks, which was itself the result of a history of amalgamations. That history began when Radio Pacific purchased the Energy Enterprises group of local North Island stations in the 1990s and began to operate as Pacific/Radioworks Group. In 1999 Radio Pacific and Radio Otago merged to form the publicly listed company RadioWorks; this included the growing brands of The Edge, The Rock and Solid Gold.[citation needed]


Between 2000 and 2001 CanWest purchased RadioWorks, awaiting company restructuring before completing the year-long takeover, and moved its existing MORE FM group assets, including Channel Z and The Breeze Wellington, into the company. Local heritage stations were categorised under the LocalWorks brand. Some stations, like Magic 828 and 98.6FM Manawatu, The Breeze Wellington and Lite FM Christchurch, were transferred to an easy listening format and were rebranded as semi-local stations in The Breeze in 2004.[citation needed]


The music format on most of the LocalWorks stations was an Adult Contemporary format, including KCC FM Northland, Y99.3 FM Waikato, Coastline FM Tauranga, Lakes 96FM Rotorua, Energy FM Taranaki, Hot 93 Hawkes Bay, Star FM Wanganui, 2XS FM Manawatu, Fifeshire FM Nelson, C93FM Christchurch, Radio Central in Central Otago, Resort Radio Queenstown, 4XO Dunedin and Foveaux FM Southland. From March 2003, these stations were required to introduce a centralised playlist to create a standard in the music played across the stations. Many of these stations became part of the More FM network in December 2004.[citation needed]



Services



Television


Three, Bravo and The Edge TV operate out of Auckland City. Television advertising is sold by the MediaWorks offices in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Melbourne, Sydney and Hamilton. There are Newshub bureaus in the Three Headquarters in Auckland and MediaWorks offices in Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, with news staff working out of other offices as needed.[citation needed] Three provides mature content, Newshub bulletins, current affairs and sport. The Edge TV launched in 2014 and broadcasts music videos and entertainment news.[citation needed] All are available via all digital platforms such as terrestrial, satellite and cable. TV3 and Four were the only ones previously available via analogue terrestrial on the VHF band before the 2013 switch-off. Bravo and Bravo Plus 1 replaced Four and Four Plus 1 in 2016.[12]



Television brands

































Channel
Launched
Sky
Freeview

Three
1989
3
3

Bravo
2016
12
4
ThreeLife
2018
29
11

The Edge TV
2014
114
14


Radio



Since its inception in 2004, MediaWorks have moved its local stations over to the More FM and The Breeze brand; all these broadcasts now carry this branding and some or all of the brand's programming. At the same time, MediaWorks have rolled out new brands Radio Live and Kiwi FM, converted Radio Pacific to LiveSport, and purchased brands Mai FM and George FM. MediaWorks owns Times FM in Orewa, Coromandel FM on the Coromandel Peninsula and Radio Dunedin in Otago.[1]



Radio brands































































Brand
Type
Original station

The Breeze

Easy listening

The Breeze Wellington in 1993

LiveSport

Sports talk

Radio Pacific Auckland in 1978 (sold)

The Edge

Pop/Rock, R&B/top 40

The Edge Hamilton in 1994

Kiwi FM

Alternative music

Channel Z Wellington in 1996 (now defunct)

George FM

Dance music

George FM Auckland in 1998

Mai FM

Urban music

Mai FM Auckland in 1992

Magic

Oldies
New station

More FM

AC/Pop

More FM Wellington in 1991

Radio Live

Talk radio

Radio Pacific Auckland in 1978

The Rock

Rock music

The Rock Hamilton in 1992

The Sound

Classic rock/Oldies

Solid Gold Auckland in 1997


Local services


Coromandel FM is a regional Coromandel Peninsula radio network with a Hot AC music format and hourly Radio Live News updates. It was officially launched by station manager Warren Male in December 1992, but began as short trial broadcasts on Pauanui-Tairua and Whitianga-Whangamata during previous summers.[13] Under a contract with MediaWorks New Zealand, independent affiliate Coromandel FM Limited also operates The Breeze Mercury Bay and The Rock Mercury Bay from Thames.


Coromandel FM's daily breakfast programme is hosted by Rex Simpson and includes the Carswell Construction Rural Hour, political commentary from MP Scott Simpson, Thames-Coromandel Mayor Glenn Leach, and Hauraki Mayor John Tregidga, birthday announcements, and horoscopes. Alan Beagle hosts mid-mornings and Mike Bain hosts afternoons.[14]



Local brands and affiliates























Brand
Type
Market and location

Big River Radio

Adult contemporary

Otago: Balclutha since 1992

Coromandel FM

Hot AC

Coromandel Peninsula: Thames since 1992

Radio Dunedin


Otago: Dunedin since 1922


Interactive


MediaWorks Interactive consists of the Newshub website, the official websites of the company's television and radio brands, and six specialist websites set up since the department was formed in 2004. The Interactive department designs, maintains and sells advertising on all eighteen websites. Most websites have a similar layout and a MediaWorks link bar at the top of every page.


The Newshub website is the flagship news website of MediaWorks, and is continuously updated by the company's journalists. It claims to have provided the first video coverage and breaking news coverage of several events, including being the first website to have posted the verdict of the retrial of David Bain in 2009.[15] It includes sections on national, world, sport, business, entertainment, politics, lifestyle, technology and odd news, as well as weather forecasts, information on Newshub programmes and a news forum. The other websites carry feeds from relevant sections.



Websites









































































Website Name
Primary purpose
News content
threenow.co.nz

ThreeNow: streams of Three and Bravo
Feed of Newshub
newshub.co.nz
Website of Newshub
Articles, videos, audio clips from Newshub and affiliates
bravotv.co.nz
Website of Bravo
None
theedge.co.nz
Website of The Edge
Feed of Newshub, in-house music and celebrity news
morefm.co.nz
Website of More FM
Feed of Newshub
maifm.co.nz
Website of Mai FM
Feed of Newshub
georgefm.co.nz
Website of George FM
None
therock.net.nz
Website of The Rock
In-house music news
thesound.co.nz
Website of The Sound
Feed of Newshub
thebreeze.co.nz
Website of The Breeze
Feed of Newshub
magic.co.nz
Website of Magic
Feed of Newshub
radiolive.co.nz
Opinion, news, lifestyle & general website of Radio Live
Feed of Newshub
rova.nz
Landing page for Rova
None


Previous websites






































Website Name
Primary purpose
Current use
adsearch.co.nz
Ads-on-demand from MediaWorks clients
Defunct
mymobizone.co.nz
Mobile content provider
Sold to Modica Group
vouchermate.co.nz
Print and mobile voucher website
Sold to Associated Media
livesport.co.nz
Website of LiveSport
Brand disestablished
kiwifm.co.nz
Website of Kiwi FM
Brand disestablished
scout.co.nz
Celebrity and entertainment news
In-house celebrity gossip, redirects to Newshub Entertainment


Confidentiality and trust


On March 10, 2016 a reporter for MediaWorks broke embargo and leaked sensitive information about a 25 basis point cut by the Reserve Bank to the Official Cash Rate (OCR).[16] MediaWorks conducted their own investigation to the leak, and followed up with an apology from CEO Mark Weldon (former head of the New Zealand Stock exchange), although Weldon stopped short of naming the reporters involved.[17] As a result of the loss of trust with the media, the Reserve Bank has elected to discontinue the media lockup prior to future releases of the OCR.[citation needed]



See also


  • Freeview


References





  1. ^ abc Company profile, mediaworks.co.nz; accessed 26 January 2017.


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  3. ^ "Govt lends MediaWorks $43m against advice". TVNZ. One News. 7 April 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
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  4. ^ Myllylahti, Merja (16 September 2011). "The New Zealand Media Ownership Report 2011" (PDF). labour.org.nz. AUT. Archived from the original (Report) on 23 November 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.


  5. ^ Miles, Sarah (10 April 2015). "Bread and games and the plight of Campbell Live". The Christchurch Fiasco. Sarah MIles. Retrieved 17 July 2015.


  6. ^ Drinnan, John (11 March 2011). "Media: Radio deal a mockery of free market". New Zealand Media and Entertainment. New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 17 July 2015.


  7. ^ "MediaWorks in receivership". The New Zealand Herald. 17 June 2013.


  8. ^ "Mark Weldon named MediaWorks new boss". New Zealand Herald. 5 August 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.


  9. ^ "MediaWorks chief executive Mark Weldon quits: 'Personal cost now too high to continue'". Nzherald.co.nz. 4 May 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2017.


  10. ^ "MediaWorks Ownership Update". MediaWorks. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2015.


  11. ^ "MediaWorks announces new channel ThreeLife". Newshub. 15 February 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2018.


  12. ^ "Bravo to launch on July 3". Newshub. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 6 June 2016.


  13. ^ "Whitianga". theradiovault.net. Archived from the original on 27 August 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2016.


  14. ^ Coromandel FM Website; accessed 26 January 2017.


  15. ^ 3 News radio advertisement on MediaWorks stations September 2009


  16. ^ "Reserve Bank". Rbnz.govt.nz. April 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2017.


  17. ^ "MediaWorks Response to Reserve Bank Statement". Scoop.co.nz. 14 April 2016. Retrieved 26 January 2017.




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