Article – Tom Frewen Hiring a programme director from a commercial dance and electronic music radio station to take charge of a public broadcasters classical music programme, with a view to getting rid of it, is a small but nevetheless typical instance of the shambles … Hiring a programme director from a commercial dance and electronic music radio station to take charge of a public broadcaster’s classical music programme, with a view to getting rid of it, is a small but nevetheless typical instance of the shambles that is Labour’s broadcasting policy under its current Minister, Kris Faafoi. After doing nothing to halt Radio New Zealand’s ill-conceived youth music plan despite knowing about it for at least six months, Faafoi is set to follow that meltdown with an even bigger catastrophe — merging Radio New Zealand and TVNZ into a new media entity.