For the first time ever, sport will be put into the legislative functions of NZ on Air, writes Winston Peters. It is high time sport was treated the same as other programming that New Zealanders can see on free-to-air television. New Zealand First believes the ability to watch sport is a Kiwi birthright because sport is part of our culture, our identity and it unites us as a people like nothing else. Similar measures were introduced in the UK in 1996, and in 2007 India enacted arguably the toughest regulation of sport broadcasting anywhere. That pales in comparison to the billions taxpayers and ratepayers have put into New Zealand sport over the same period.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 26, 2017 16:08 UTC