The state broadcaster is not waiting for the merger to imagine its future, reports Duncan Greive after a wide-ranging interview with TVNZ CEO Kevin Kenrick.
TVNZ is planning a major reimagining of its TVNZ OnDemand platform that will ultimately lead it into a post-linear TV future, CEO Kevin Kenrick has revealed in a wide-ranging interview on The Fold podcast. This includes multiple online-only channels, a major expansion of its digital news offering – and the bombshell confirmation of an ad-free paid subscription service.
“The future is going to require multiple monetisation streams – I think it’s going to be pretty hard to do it solely on any one,” says Kenrick, sketching a vision of TVNZ OnDemand that goes “beyond just being the on demand version of what we’ve got, to actually being the digital version of TVNZ that replaces broadcast”.