8 Sep 2020

Former TV3 news boss on MediaWorks TV sale

From Morning Report, 8:29 am on 8 September 2020

TV3's news operations are thought to be safe, with confirmation the channel is being sold to US company Discovery. 

MediaWorks has been trying to sell its TV operation since late last year and has already done a deal to sell its central Auckland premises. 

In May it announced 130 staff redundancies, mostly in the radio side of operations, in response to a Covid-19-driven slump in revenue, which had already forced it to reduce staff hours and pay. 

Mark Jennings is a co-editor of Newsroom.co.nz and used to head TV3's news department.

He speaks to Susie Ferguson.