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.

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.

The future of the MediaWorks network Four is at stake as the cash-strapped company tries to renegotiate programming deals with Hollywood studios.

TV3's loss of Home and Away to its rival could see 3 News ratings take a hit after steadily building its audience after the last year, a media commentator says.

The third series of Almighty Johnsons - which was revived at late notice - will be launching during a pivotal time for TV3 owner MediaWorks.

MediaWorks NZ, the broadcaster whose lenders look likely to seize control, narrowed its annual loss in 2012 after massive writedowns a year earlier.

Sky Sport has copped angry feedback from viewers annoyed over two screening errors during the All Blacks versus France test on Saturday night.

Has the latest receivership been solely driven by MediaWorks' desire to avoid paying $22 million to the IRD?

The loss of English Premier League soccer to online broadcaster Coliseum Sports Media may signal the end of Sky's virtual monopoly of quality sports content.

Fran O'Sullivan asks: "Is the MediaWorks receivership simply the first move in a long-running play that will ultimately return more media assets into NZ ownership?"

KordaMentha, the receivers for MediaWorks, could hand over control to a new firm by the end of next month, according to insiders.

New owners for MediaWorks have been trying to renegotiate a Fox TV deal that provides top shows like Homeland, Family Guy and Bones.

Taxpayers may wind up covering for MediaWorks again with a restructuring deal that could free them from a potential $22 million obligation to the IRD.

New Zealand television audiences should not be worried about losing popular shows like X Factor and The GC, say the receivers of MediaWorks.

Rumour has it that the Commission will quietly ask Sky to reconsider its apparently restrictive contracts with ISPs on a mutually agreeable basis, writes Chris Barton.

TVNZ broadcaster Shane Taurima will talk to his bosses this week about what role he will have after unsuccessfully contesting Labour's Ikaroa-Rawhiti candidacy.