I've received several emails from people who have contacted Heritage Hotels to complain about their sponsorship of Paul Henry's bigotry. According to Heritage, they are
not a sponsor of the Breakfast Show and ha[ve] not been for some months.Which is interesting, given that their branding was all over the show's website yesterday morning. Either they're engaged in a clumsy lie, or TVNZ has been giving them free advertising for months.
I'm still waiting to find a list of Breakfast's other advertisers. The FaceSpy page lists Progressive Enterprises (Countdown, Foodtown & Woolworths) as being the primary buyer around the news slots; does anyone know of any others?
Update: Huh. Heritage Hotels' branding is still on the Breakfast Livestream, or at least the card saying it is not currently on-air. More free advertising from TVNZ?
(National Bank advertise all TVNZ's online video, so I don't know if its worth targeting them or not).
