Yesterday’s scrapping of the RNZ TVNZ merger and all work on it will have been welcome news to commercial media owners and managers.

They were the ones raising most of the red flags about the creation of a giant new public media entity.

Stuff CEO and owner, Sinead Boucher, told parliament last year the merger would create a media giant with the power to distort the market.

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