Australia's Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder has got a toe-hold on New Zealand's reality TV, buying Greenstone TV for an undisclosed sum.

Murray Deaker, an undisputed giant of sports broadcasting, has blown the final whistle on his career of more than 20 years.

A $285 million deal to help debt-burdened television and radio owner MediaWorks has received state authority backing.

John Drinnan asks : what is TVNZ for?

Questions are being raised inside Maori Television about the appointment process for a new chief executive.

TV viewers love reality shows - and so do advertisers. That is because the line between paid, scripted product placement and authentic 'real' content is getting harder for viewers to spot.

The TV viewer has traditionally been characterised as a couch-potato, writes Sarah Martindale. Now our actions will dictate the opportunities for innovation and creativity.

The use of television "on demand" services has been increasing, but viewers are still watching traditional "live" TV - and with it, TV advertisements, a report shows.

The new-look TV3 aims to boost profits by peeling back its big output deals with Hollywood studios such as Fox and NBC.

Both John Key and the TV channels could enlighten us much more on issues of the day if they abandoned the formula entertainment and got back to the journalism, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

The sale of media company MediaWorks has been confirmed this morning by its receivers KordaMentha.

Slow progress in completing an inquiry is fuelling concern that the Commerce Commission is backing away from challenging Sky TV's hold on video content.

TV3 presenter Rachel Smalley may be jumping ship from breakfast telly to a rival radio network, but there will be no hard feelings when she goes.

Financial problems and viewer preferences are behind TVNZ's decision to axe its youth channel and replace it with a time-delayed broadcast of TV2.

To detractors, Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based television network, is anti-American and anti-Semitic, a propagandist for al Qaeda that screened videos from Osama bin Laden.

Religious hardliners have declared a jihad against the television talent shows that have taken Afghanistan by storm.

Many of TV3's top shows are on the block, as Prime and TVNZ fight to take them off Mediaworks while the company is in receivership.

This is the golden age of entertainment television. Never has Hollywood spent so much on the small screen.

You know it's big when they get special graphics made, crashing and zipping across the TV with a flashy soundtrack to match.

Mediaworks' receivership has several implications for the future of TV3, Four and the New Zealand television market in general.