New Zealand On Air says it was unaware that its funding of the new 3D Investigates programme would lead to TV3 cutting half an hour off 3News on Sunday nights.

Since it was announced that Campbell Live was under review, three petitions to save the show have gathered more than 95,000 signatures.

An Al-Jazeera news presenter who got his break in journalism at 3 News has come out in support of his old colleague John Campbell.

There has been much hyperbole in the reaction to a review by broadcaster MediaWorks of its evening current affairs show Campbell Live.

The Prime Minister may have been out of New Zealand - or possibly flat out with the demands of 24/7 forex trading - when New Zealand television news and current affairs was in its heyday.

How political is the potential axing of Campbell Live? Certainly politicos on Twitter have been outraged about the prospect, writes Bryce Edwards.

The new Aussie owners of Call Plus won't rule out continuing with its Global Mode service and says it is up to existing owners to deal with broadcasters' legal challenges.

In television it's often said you live or die by the ratings. But just who is watching what we're watching?

A taxpayer handout for "investigative journalism" saved TV3's current affairs show 3rd Degree but left Campbell Live fighting for its life.

MediaWorks bosses have John Campbell in their sights but that may be more do to with their taste in TV, than with politics.

John Drinnan on the legal challenge to Global Mode services. Four media companies are threatening action to stop access.

On Thursday entertainment and television players Spark, MediaWorks, Sky and TVNZ fired a warning shot to Slingshot, Orcon and Bypass Network Services.

Free-to-air television starts marketing an upgraded "Freeview Plus" service this month, playing catch-up with the way people view programming.

Producers of The Block NZ have sent letters to residents of an Auckland suburb informing of “building and filming activity in your area”.

Spark chief executive Simon Moutter has taken a swipe at new competitor Netflix, saying the TV streaming company is taking advantage of GST loopholes.

Jeremy Clarkson and producer Oisin Tymon are believed to have now given their evidence to the BBC's inquiry into the Top Gear fracas.

How about this for a conundrum. There is a TV show I really want to watch, but I'm not going to.

"There is evidence - albeit not fully conclusive - that exposure to violence in the media contributes to violent behaviour in children and adolescents."

Television New Zealand expects to resume dividend payments to the Government in 2016, but MP Judith Collins has hit out at its ill-fated 'TVNZ blondes' promotion.

Netflix is expected to launch in the next few days bringing NZ more directly into the corporate world of global pay television.

Some sections of society seem to have done an Alice in Wonderland down the rabbit hole this week. One minute, they were in Aotearoa 2015; the next, they were back in 1980s New Zild.

Freeview says the new digital service will provide "vastly improved" navigation. Details will be announced closer to the launch, possibly in July.

Sky Television will launch its new internet TV service Neon tomorrow after delays caused by technical glitches.

Sky TV is powerless to change on-screen graphics which a media commentator says are "ugly, visual garbage" and will get between viewers and Cricket World Cup action.