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Watch: Kiwi creative behind Super Bowl ad featuring iconic US advertising characters
'New Zealand to me has always been the absolute hotbed of creativity.'

'Absolutely disgraceful': Former All Blacks coach blasts Sky TV after seven no-shows from technicians
Laurie Mains has been among the hundreds of Sky TV customers left frustrated and angry.

'Brutal': David Seymour v Guy Williams in verbal stoush; Bank execs at critic Shane Jones' party
Have the SKY CEO and CFO fallen out?; Shorty St revived; top magazine returns to NZ.

'Underwhelmed', 'annoyed': Sky TV satellite headaches – increasing numbers of customers suffer outages
Sky says it has boosted call-out resources and has now chosen a preferred new satellite.

6pm news shake-up looms: Simon Dallow mulls TVNZ future; NZ's 25 toughest PR gigs
Inside the NZME/Herald cuts; Reporter of Year quits Stuff; Mike Hosking's big birthday.

NZ Herald, Newstalk ZB staff called to meeting; fears of job losses
Media Insider: NZME staff have been called to a meeting on Wednesday morning.

TV host's new role; Sky TV, TV3 bosses on the economy as one publisher predicts media 'carnage'
Q&As with five top media bosses; a well-known face and name has a new broadcasting gig.

Six media bosses, five questions: 'The grimmest, most intense and sad work we’ve ever done'
Media CEO: 'Advertising market has changed faster than any of us could have anticipated.'

The ad industry's biggest mistake? 'Assuming the rest of NZ is just like Auckland'
The bosses of NZME, Stuff, Are Media and three agencies answer five questions for 2025.

Five questions for '25: 'NZ media is on a knife-edge' - TVNZ, RNZ, The Spinoff leaders open up
Agency boss: 'NZ media market needs to reinvent itself'.

A crazy media year: 24 awards for 2024; TV weather presenter, radio sports host quit roles; 5 newspapers saved
Who's in line for ainfluential TVNZ role?; $1 sales: five NZME community newspapers saved.

Merger by stealth? RNZ to move in with TVNZ in Auckland in 2025
The two public broadcasters will come together physically in Victoria St.