The move to televised school sport is being called ‘catastrophic’ for the future of New Zealand sport in the community, by the journalist investigating it. Today, The Detail looks at the uproar over the move, and the complicated mix of players clashing over who owns school sport. Sky TV launched Sky Sport Next in November last year, a YouTube channel showing minority sports. Caught up in the clash are school principals, sporting organisations including the government agency Sport NZ, School Sport NZ, sporting heroes and the broadcaster itself. "But it’s whether the NSOs had the right to include school sport as part of that.

Source: Stuff September 08, 2020 16:52 UTC