TVNZ announces end of the Six O’Clock News

In a dramatic announcement today, TVNZ issued a Press Release stating that they will be pulling the Six O’Clock News in it’s current format, to be replaced by more popular programmes such as Married at First Sight (MAFS).

Head of programming at TVNZ, Jane Wilson, was upbeat, stating that the merger with RNZ was going to bring with it earth shattering changes to the media landscape. “The advent of the Internet, blog sites, and citizen journalism, meant that news is available as it happens, every second of the day. The Six O’Clock news is now ‘old news'”, she said. “We must move with the times, and to maintain our advertising revenue, we will move to more entertaining formats at that time of the day to ensure our future going ahead.”

In another shock announcement, Simon Dallow will leave TVNZ at the end of this month, to pursue his legal career again. It was expected that the merger of RNZ and TVNZ would see a massive restructure of staffing, and he said that it was appropriate to leave while at the top of his career as a journalist.

Dallow as not available for further comment, and neither were TV3, who it is understood, were considering a similar move.