TV view echoed
riv Z Press Assn—CopyriynV SEOUL, April 20. The Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon), who is strongly in favour of one television news service, said in Seoul yesterdav that a New Zealand-born expert on television news agreed with him. Mr Muldoon said that he had talked in London with Sir Geoffrey Cox, who founded Independent Television News and is still on its board of directors and
on the boards of two television companies, TyneTees and Trident. “His views coincide with mine specifically in that he thinks that there could be considerable merit in having one news service for the collection of news for television,” Mr Muldoon said. “He sees no danger in that, provided that there are separate current affairs services.” Sir Geoffrey bad expressed some reservations
about the mechanisrrts of control of New Zealand television: “He doesn’t think that we have a system of real competition in the financial sense. In the production sense, yes, hut not in the financial sense.” In London. Sir Geoffrey has confirmed that he had had talks with Mr Muldoon last week. It had been a question-and-answer session. and so he could not comment on Mr Muldoon’s views.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34133, 21 April 1976, Page 3
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195TV view echoed Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34133, 21 April 1976, Page 3
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