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How will MediaWorks reduce its debt?

The Civilian takes a look at how MediaWorks plans to reduce its financial debt.
The Civilian takes a look at how MediaWorks plans to reduce its financial debt.
  • Relocate studios to Dargaville.
  • Stop funding Duncan Garner’s Juicy Puff addiction.
  • Cut back to just 5 Days.
  • Rename The Edge radio station to less pricey Larry Mullen, Jr.
  • Downgrade search for hottest home baker to search for hottest home baker’s kind-of-okay-looking-and-nice-enough older sibling.
  • Replace expensive current affairs shows with hours of Rebecca Wright yelling at Winston Peters.
  • Get someone to check if Kiwi FM still exists. If it does, put it on TradeMe.
  • Indoors with Geoff.
  • Discontinue TV3 in favour of TV3 Plus 1, extending the delay from one hour to one year.
  • Replace everyone with Samantha Hayes. Unsure whether this will reduce debt but just do it.
  • Invade TVNZ headquarters. Leave no one alive.
  • Win Lotto.
  • Maybe do something with magnets?
  • Rent out Mike McRoberts to retirement homes; soothing voice will help residents forget their slow and inevitable decay.
  • Proactively redistribute Drug Bust properties.
  • Rebroadcast X Factor from the beginning; promote it like it’s a completely new show.
  • Allow radio stations to play only Dave Dobbyn’s Welcome Home.
  • Raid archives. Replace 3 News with 3 History.
  • Increase corruption.
  • Execute villain’s plan from Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies.
  • License The Vote format to Electoral Commission.
  • Stop paying everyone. Isn’t being on TV payment enough?
  • Broadcast entire archive of clip art.
  • Replace fancy recording and lighting equipment with home video camera and torch.
  • Launch new scheme whereby businesses purchase airtime to promote their products and/or services.
  • Stop appointing receivers. They’re expensive.

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