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Maori TV 'moving HQ to Rotorua'

By Matthew Martin and Dana Kinita
Rotorua Daily Post·
8 Sep, 2014 11:56 PM3 mins to read

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Te Kaea news reader Amomai Pihama at Maori TV's head office in Newmarket. Photo / Greg Bowker

Te Kaea news reader Amomai Pihama at Maori TV's head office in Newmarket. Photo / Greg Bowker

Labour Party list MP Kelvin Davis says Maori Television is moving its headquarters from Auckland to Rotorua.

But Maori Television officials say comments made yesterday the organisation was slashing jobs are simply conjecture. They have not responded to questions put to them by the Rotorua Daily Post regarding the headquarters moving to Rotorua.

Mr Davis' claims came after Mana Movement leader Hone Harawira said Maori Television was dumping its key news programme Te Kaea, with up to 25 jobs being axed.

Maori Television was launched in 2004 and is based in central Auckland.

But Mr Davis told the Rotorua Daily Post his contacts "close to the station" said Maori Television was going to move to Rotorua and there were going to be job losses, with Te Kaea disestablished.

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"Georgina Te Heu Heu has since met with Pita Sharples and it seems they're putting it on hold until after the election," he said.

"I've cast a light on this and now everyone is scurrying around making denials. They've now said it will be changes on the website. Yeah right, we'll see what happens after the election."

Mr Davis wondered why the station would move to Rotorua anyway.

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"National Party and Maori Party seem to been in cahoots and moving it to Rotorua seems to be for Te Ururoa Flavell's benefit, to make him look good.

"I think it doesn't make sense to have Maori Television in a rural town, for want of better term. It needs to be in a main centre for travel."

Mr Davis said staff at the station he had spoken to said they were "pretty bitter about this because of the lack of communication and decisions are being made, and sounds like, remade by the attention drawn to it".

Maori Television chief executive Paora Maxwell issued a statement saying a review of its operations has been conducted and the results would be announced to staff this week.

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"The review, which has included consultation with staff, will not result in the alleged outcomes as postulated by Mana leader Hone Harawira," Mr Maxwell said.

He said it was an organisational matter and the story published in the New Zealand Herald was based on incorrect information and conjecture, and should be discounted.

Maori Party co-leader and Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell said he dismissed Mr Davis' comments as speculation and said they were not based on any concrete evidence.

Mr Flavell said it was cheeky of Mr Davis to suggest moving the station's headquarters to Rotorua would only be for his benefit.

"All I can say is, it's election year. There's a lot of speculation that comes with it."

A Rotorua District Council spokesman said they had received no resource consents from Maori Television to build or develop a station in Rotorua.

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