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Breakfast host Corin Dann is set to replace Guyon Espiner as TVNZ's new political editor.

TVNZ has banned Mike Hosking from covering stories about SkyCity Entertainment on Close Up after he acknowledged he had a celebrity deal with the casino company.

The Commerce Commission was unlikely to oppose the joint venture proposal between Sky Network Television and TVNZ to establish the Sky Lite pay television station Igloo, Forsyth Barr broker Suzanne Kinnaird said yesterday.

The Commerce Commission's investigation into new pay TV platform Igloo was a good start but it did not go far enough, Labour Party broadcasting and communications spokeswoman Clare Curran said yesterday.

With primetime shows on both sides of the Tasman, Jay Ryan has become one of our most in-demand television actors. The Go Girls star talks to Lydia Jenkin about his new role as a doctor in Offspring and escaping West Auckland.

TVNZ on Tuesday night screened a controversial lesbian kiss on Coronation Street in the programme's new 5.25pm time slot.

An announcement is expected today that Television New Zealand head of news and current affairs Anthony Flannery has stepped down from the job.

State-owned television has always been the plaything of politicians, 50 years ago because of fears this permanent occupant of our living rooms might influence our opinions, later as a source of revenues - and all the while the public face of political argument about the medium was bound up in ethical, cultural, social and historical pomposities.

TVNZ has been ordered to pay $3000 costs and broadcast a statement saying it responded weakly to complaints of Paul Henry's repeated mocking of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's name last year.

How we view television content continues to change rapidly. Jonathan Coleman explains the Government's approach to the new environment and how public broadcasting fits into the mix.