NZ On Air enjoyed the benefits of a newly-refilled bucket of cash, albeit at pretty much standstill levels, in the first round of funding for the 2010-11 year – until it saw the number and quality of applications. The losers will have retired quietly to lick their wounds, the lucky recipients (and any recipients are lucky in the current climate) were a mix of the old and the new.
The announcements come on top of yesterday’s half million granted to a pilot scheme of an Audio Description service for vision-impaired viewers to be run at TVNZ.