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Groups

This page highlights New Zealand media groups profiled on this site.


Like Australia and Canada, ownership of the New Zealand mass media are concentrated in a few groups. Unlike the larger markets, ownership in New Zealand is mostly offshore.

  • AHL - Australian cinema group
  • APN - Australasia's largest operator in regional newspapers, radio broadcasting and outdoor advertising, controlling New Zealand's Wilson & Horton

Groups

This page highlights New Zealand media groups profiled on this site.

Like Australia and Canada, ownership of the New Zealand mass media are concentrated in a few groups. Unlike the larger markets, ownership in New Zealand is mostly offshore.

  • AHL - Australian cinema group
  • APN - Australasia's largest operator in regional newspapers, radio broadcasting and outdoor advertising, controlling New Zealand's Wilson & Horton
  • Asper and CanWest Global - the Canada-based newspaper and broadcasting group with major NZ television and radio interests
  • TVNZ & RNZ - New Zealand public broadcasters
  • Bertelsmann - from bibles to one of the big three media conglomerates
  • Clear - radio broadcaster
  • DMG - the Rothermere print and radio group founded by Lord Northcliffe
  • Elsevier - one of the big three of technical publishing
  • Fairfax - now New Zealand's largest newspaper publisher through acquisition of Murdoch's Independent News Ltd NZ papers in 2003
  • Granada - broadcast, film and multimedia group
  • Hachette - global magazine publisher
  • IDG - US magazine publisher
  • McGraw-Hill - US textbook and financial data
  • News - controlling the Sky pay television network after selling its newspaper interests to Fairfax
  • Packer - the Packer family
  • Quebecor - printing, publishing, broadcasting and retail
  • Rural Press - regional and rural publishing
  • Thomson - continuing to move upmarket as a provider of specialist print and online journals and information services
  • Time Warner - books, music, theme parks, magazines, cable tv ...
  • United Business Media - UK technical publishing (CMP) and market research group
  • Village Roadshow - global cinema group that controlls the Austereo radio network in Australia
  • Vivendi - the French group that swallowed Seagram (theme parks, music, films, publishing ...) before merging many of its media interests with NBC