OPINION:
The Government’s ambitious timeline for merging TVNZ and RNZ into Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM) by the middle of next year means that we could expect to see a chief executive appointed
in the coming months.
This job will be highly paid, given it will bring together the chief executive roles at RNZ and TVNZ.
The RNZ 2021 annual report shows that the top-paid staffer earned a salary of between $520,000 and $529,000, while the TVNZ annual report for 2022 indicated a base salary of $810,000 for the chief executive (previously Kevin Kenrick). The salary of the TVNZ boss is, however, dependent on commercial incentives and rose to $2.08m in his final year in charge. The TVNZ boss usually earns in the vicinity of $1.5m once full incentives are taken into account.
Given the leadership role at ANZPM will bring together those sets of…
