Searching for quality television in New Zealand
Hunting the moa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12601933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoff Lealand (0000-0002-0274-3321, University of Waikato, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 448-455 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-8779 • E-ISSN: 1460-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/136787790100400405 |
| OpenAlex | W2140941886 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
After a decade or more of commercial imperatives dominating state-owned television in New Zealand, government policy is attempting to shift it back to public service or ‘civic’ objectives. As a result, debates about ‘quality’ have re-emerged, both in the public discourse and in the Charter which Television New Zealand will be expected to observe. This could be regarded as an echo of similar debates which occurred in British television in the early 1990s but, in the case of New Zealand, debates about ‘quality’ have tended to be under-articulated and impoverished, with the default meaning implying middle brow and conventional taste formations. Prevailing notions of ‘quality’ in television, as currently used in New Zealand debates, are decoded and challenged in this article
Charter · Commercial broadcasting · Government (linguistics · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public broadcasting · Public discourse · Public service · Quality (philosophy · Sociology · State (computer science · Taste · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Public Administration
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |