NZ Cabinet is forging ahead with the plan to create a new, super-sized public broadcaster, but ministers have taken some convincing.
RNZ understands they have signed off on a high-level decision to proceed and to commission a business case, after the Minister for Broadcasting, Kris Faafoi, presented a revised paper on Monday.
As in the original proposal, the company would still have the ability to fund some of its operations through commercial or advertising revenue.