Streaming

Australia correspondent Chris Niesche looks at efforts to recoup millions from victims of Sydney fraudster Melissa Caddick, plans to restrict digital streaming services from having access to certain… Audio

Low artist payments from music streaming is already a hot topic and now 'streaming farms', the newest form of music pay-for-play are also having an impact on music charts and musician's income… Audio

When the New Zealand International Film Festival reluctantly cancelled the Auckland sector, due to Covid Delta restrictions, a group of Tamaki Makaurau film lovers refused to take it lying down. What… Audio

Today Graeme is looking at some locally streamed options for people to watch while cinemas are still closed for audiences during alert levels 3 & 4. He's recommending Under The Volcano, being streamed… Audio

In his book, Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music, Kyle Devine examines the hidden or overlooked costs of online listening. Devine wants people to understand that there is no such thing as a… Audio

Education academics say decades of research has shown academic streaming in schools doesn't lift achievement and in fact, serves to drag down those students in lower streams. They say this… Audio

The latest survey of New Zealanders’ media habits shows more people are turning to offshore-owned online entertainment platforms while engagement with most local media has fallen. 

Dr. Steven Winnett is a Nurse Anaethetist at a New York hospital who is on the front line caring for Covid-19 patients in an ICU. In his downtime, he brings smiles to faces by hosting massive… Audio

The telecommunications company Spark is selling its video streaming platform Lightbox to Sky Network Television. Its not saying how much the acquisition has cost them. Sky plans to boost its content… Audio

The merging of media continues - this time TV streaming platforms.  Audio

The TV landscape has changed beyond recognition - but there's a confusing picture over where your screen entertainment will be coming from in the future.  Audio

A typhoon over Tokyo scrapped Rugby World Cup games this weekend – while the scrap over who will screen our favourite sports here in the future intensified.

Was Spark Sports streaming fail just a one-off blip? Or game over for our titanic telco and sport on screen - and a knockback for digital innovation? Would politicians arriving at the breakdown really… Video, Audio

We haven't been this twitchy about tech since Y2K. Spark took a gamble by buying the World Cup broadcast rights and offering live streaming coverage to subscribers. It's sparked a flood of sceptical -… Video, Audio