AI Guidance
NZ On Air has produced guidance on how we will assess funding applications that propose the use of AI or GenAI in the creation of screen and music content.
This guidance is not intended to regulate AI use across the entire industry or to enforce rights management. Those responsibilities fall outside NZ On Air’s role as a funding agency. Instead, our focus is on how AI may be used within the scope of publicly funded content and how it aligns with our values and objectives.
Due to the very fast advancements in AI this guidance is a living document. It will be updated as and when it needs to be. We are all learning as we go.
You can read our AI Content Creator Guidance here.
Platform funding
The NZ On Air Board met on 4 June to confirm funding for platforms and services that receive annual operational funding. The Platforms funding stream is an annual closed fund for existing funded entities who deliver services to create and deliver vital audio/visual public media content.
Funding decisions:
Coast Access Radio Trust, Coast Access Radio Capital, up to $2,779.
Tasman Broadcasting Trust, Fresh FM Capital, up to $40,421.
Community Access Media Alliance (CAMA), CAMA National Representative, up to $80,000.
Massey University Students Association, Radio Control 99.4FM, up to $180,000.
Radio One 91FM, Radio One 91FM, up to $210,000.
Coast Access Radio Trust, Coast Access Radio, up to $235,000.
Access Radio Wairarapa Charitable Trust, Arrow FM, up to $240,000.
Siufofoga o le Laumua Trust, Samoa Capital Radio, up to $240,000.
Tasman Broadcasting Trust, Fresh FM, up to $275,000.
Southland Community Broadcasters Charitable Trust, Radio Southland, up to $277,500.
Manawatū Access Radio Charitable Trust, Manawatū People’s Radio, up to $280,000.
Radio Active FM Ltd, Radio Active, up to $280,000.
RDU 98.5FM, RDU 98.5FM, up to $280,000.
Hills Radio Trust, Otago Access Radio, up to $285,000.
Access Radio Taranaki Trust, Access Radio Taranaki, up to $290,000.
Radio Kidnappers Charitable Trust, Radio Hawkes Bay, up to $300,000.
Campus Radio bFM, 95bFM, up to $320,000.
Canterbury Communications Trust, Plains FM, up to $339,000.
Waikato Community Broadcasting, Free FM, up to $342,600.
Wellington Access Broadcasting Society, Wellington Access Radio, up to $345,000.
Access Community Radio Auckland, Planet FM, up to $350,000.
Digital Media Trust, NZ On Screen and AudioCulture, up to $1,800,000.
Able, TV Captioning and Audio Description, up to $4,900,000.
National Pacific Media Trust, The Pacific Media Network, up to $4,935,000.
Radio New Zealand, RNZ, up to $62,006,000*.
* NZ On Air provides RNZ’s annual operating funding, which is ring-fenced and determined by the government.
BSS
We hope you have the Big Screen Symposium 2025 in your calendars. Held over Friday 4 July and Saturday 5 July this year in Auckland, it’s a great opportunity to connect with fellow screen practitioners and expand your knowledge.
NZ On Air will be there, with a detailed update to be delivered by CE Cameron Harland and Head of Funding Amie Mills on some recent learnings, a data-laden dive into funding impacts and how we are responding to sector needs. In addition, our Research Advisor Dr Fairooz Samy will have a session dedicated to the second Seen On Screen report, reporting on the diversity of on-screen roles, and the new workforce data project The Everyone Project Aotearoa.