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New Zealand has around 30 daily newspapers.  Eight of these are daily newspapers with circulation greater than 25,000.  The paper with the largest circulation is The New Zealand Herald, published in Auckland with a circulation of over 200,000.  Other major dailies include The Dominion Post and The Press.  There are three national Sunday newspapers, the Sunday Star Times, the Sunday News and the Herald on Sunday.  New Zealand has one major business journal, the National Business Review, but its circulation does not exceed 20,000.  There are more than 6,000 magazines regularly available in New Zealand.  Of this number, 650 are published in New Zealand.

New Zealand’s newspapers are available in both print and online formats.  Online readership is very popular, and trends in usage are intrinsically linked with increased smartphone ownership.  Stuff.co.nz, published by Fairfax New Zealand Ltd., recently announced that its readership is more than 2 million. 

New Zealand has five national television stations, a pay television vendor that offers five additional choices, a hybrid fiber-coaxial cable company, and satellite service.  A State-funded indigenous language channel is available and the emerging digital platform, Freeview, makes another 12 or so small channels available.  Television New Zealand (TVNZ), the operator of two of the four free-to-air commercial channels, is a State-Owned Enterprise (SOE).  TVNZ has two further (small) channels available on Digital Freeview platform.  TV3 Network Services Ltd. (TV3) is a privately-owned commercial network. It operates both TV3 and TV4.  About 96 percent of the population receives TV3.

Prime Television Ltd is a free-to-air network, which began broadcasting in New Zealand in 1998. Prime is fully owned by SKY Network Television. 

There are two self-regulatory bodies in New Zealand's advertising industry, the Advertising Standards Authority and the Advertising Standards Complaint Board. Additionally, the Broadcasting Standards Authority (statutory) is responsible for approving codes of broadcasting practice, including advertising, developed by radio and television.

 

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