History

How television broadcasting in New Zealand has developed and changed over the years.

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1925 - Radio Broadcasting Company
1932 - Broadcast Board established
1936 - First TV set in New Zealand?
1936 - National Broadcasting Service takes over
1946 - New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS)
1951 - New Zealand Sees its First Television
1959 - Birth of TV in New Zealand
1959 - Station 1YA Begins TV Transmissions
1960 - 2000 TV ownership and the license fee
1960 - NZBS TV2 Regular broadcasts begin
1960s - CHTV-3 N.Z.B.C. news service
1961 - CHTV-3 begins broadcasting
1961 - TV broadcasts outside of Auckland
1961 - WNTV1 arrives in Wellington
1962 - 1975 DNTV2
1962 - New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) arrives
1962 - NZBC Mt. Victoria transmitter site
1963 - New Zealand Television Workshop
1964 - Pictures on Tape
1965 - An independent view
1965 - CHTV-3 Sugarloaf Transmitter switched on
1965 - Staging Staff at WNTV
1966 - N.Z.B.C. Asks Authors To Write Plays For TV
1967 - First nation-wide link
1968 - Local shows made up more than 25% of broadcasts
1969 - First colour TV transmission in NZ
1969 - National Telecasts began
1969 - New Dimension For TV
1969 - Startling new TV Development
1969 - TV to assume censorship control
1970 - First Colour TV in Christcurch and IFTV-5
1970 - first nation-wide live sports coverage
1970 - WNTV1 start of the day's broadcast
1971 - First use of colour video camera in WNTV1 Studios
1971 - looking back over the first ten years of CHTV3
1971 - Satellite ground station at Warkworth opened
1974-01-24: Most New Zealanders' first glimpse of colour television
1975 - Three way split into Television One, Television Two and Radio New Zealand.
1976 - South Pacific Television (SPTV) appears
1980 - One + South Pacific Television = Television New Zealand (TVNZ)
1980 - Regional News returned
1988 - TVNZ becomes a state-owned enterprise
1989 - New Zealand Broadcasting Commission / NZ On Air
1989 - TV3 begins broadcasting
1989 - TV3 looks for staff
1996 -  Aotearoa Television Network
1997 - TV4 starts broadcasting
1998 - Triangle Television
2002 - TVNZ becomes a crown owned company
2004 - Māori Television launches
2007 - Digital free to air TV via Freeview
2007 - PM on Shortland St. 15th Anniversary
2007 - TVNZ OnDemand
2008 - NZonscreen Online
2010 - TVNZ 50 years
2010-15 - Heartland, 100% local content on Sky
2011 - NZ’s Oldest Working Television
2011-07 Television New Zealand Amendment Bill
2014 - Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision
2014 - The budget was supposed to signal better access to NZ's TV heritage....
2015 - Netflix launched in NZ
2017 - TV3 rebranded as Three
2019 - Nga Taonga Sound & Vision on the move
2020 - $1.3m per year for four years allocated to fund digital preservation
2020 to 2025 - Utaina
2023 - Plans for Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM ) dropped
2024 - Three Cancels the News
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RNZ NZ Screen History series
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Subcategories

Bibliography of KiwiTV 108

Details of books and articles that document or reflect on the history of New Zealand Television.

Biography/Autobiography 1

Story of people, or people telling their own stories.

Channel Check 110

Survey of the goings on in the NZBC studios for the four main centres published in the New Zealand TV Weekly.

Magazines 11

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TV listings through the years 36

Let's see how a day's TV has changed over the years...

Viewpoints 24

Opinion pieces and reports.

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