Gov't Unveils 3 Pathways for Media Watchdog's Future

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]In Waikanae this week, Goldsmith, the broadcasting minister, outlined three potential pathways that the coalition is considering: keeping things as they are, redefining the scope of the BSA to only allow them to focus on traditional linear broadcasting, or scrapping the BSA altogether and folding its remaining functions into a voluntary media council.

[00:00:18]They are the most keen on scrapping it, and they're not considering, by the sounds of it, the legislative changes that the BSA has been asking for for 15 years to widen the definition of broadcasting in a digital age, which is the option that researchers and experts on media harm would also prefer.