nz on air has attracted criticism over claims of misuse of its funds. in mid-2010 it spent $75,000 on two events celebrate 21 years of activity and between 2006 and 2011 it gave $80,000 in funding to help produce recordings and music videos for annabel fay, daughter of one of new zealand's richest men, sir michael fay. the fay controversy contributed to the scrapping of the nz on air album funding scheme in december 2010. nz on air was also criticised in 2012 for helping fund the production of "the gc", a tv3 documentary series about young māori new zealanders living on australia's gold coast and for granting $30,000 to assist recording by titanium, the winner of a radio competition to create a boy band.