History

How New Zealand's televison had developed and changed over the years.

Articles
Title	Hits
1925 - Radio Broadcasting Company	1100
1932 - Broadcast Board established	1140
1936 - First TV set in New Zealand?	434
1936 - National Broadcasting Service takes over	1020
1946 - New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS)	1041
1951 - New Zealand Sees its First Television	2621
1959 - Birth of TV in New Zealand	7017
1959 - Station 1YA Begins TV Transmissions	517
1960 - 2000 TV ownership and the license fee	1155
1960 - NZBS TV2 Regular broadcasts begin	2085
1960s - CHTV-3 N.Z.B.C. news service	412
1961 - CHTV-3 begins broadcasting	719
1961 - TV broadcasts outside of Auckland	1282
1961 - WNTV1 arrives in Wellington	937
1962 - 1975 DNTV2	1536
1962 - New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) arrives	1434
1962 - NZBC Mt. Victoria transmitter site	1872
1963 - New Zealand Television Workshop	9392
1964 - Pictures on Tape	1021
1965 - An independent view	1277
1965 - CHTV-3 Sugarloaf Transmitter switched on	696
1965 - Staging Staff at WNTV	1359
1966 - N.Z.B.C. Asks Authors To Write Plays For TV	413
1967 - First nation-wide link	1167
1968 - Local shows made up more than 25% of broadcasts	781
1969 - First colour TV transmission in NZ	4913
1969 - National Telecasts began	533
1969 - New Dimension For TV	2812
1969 - Startling new TV Development	1135
1969 - TV to assume censorship control	1351
1970 - First Colour TV in Christcurch and IFTV-5	540
1970 - first nation-wide live sports coverage	509
1970 - WNTV1 start of the day's broadcast	1041
1971 - First use of colour video camera in WNTV1 Studios	1006
1971 - looking back over the first ten years of CHTV3	1646
1971 - Satellite ground station at Warkworth opened	515
1974-01-24: Most New Zealanders' first glimpse of colour television	1550
1975 - Three way split into Television One, Television Two and Radio New Zealand.	1268
1976 - South Pacific Television (SPTV) appears	1351
1980 - One + South Pacific Television = Television New Zealand (TVNZ)	1666
1980 - Regional News returned	1242
1989 - New Zealand Broadcasting Commission / NZ On Air	536
1989 - TV3 begins broadcasting	1752
1989 - TV3 looks for staff	1267
1997 - TV4 starts broadcasting	1067
1998 - Triangle Television	1844
2004 - Māori Television launches	612
2007 - Digital free to air TV via Freeview	499
2007 - PM on Shortland St. 15th Anniversary	2003
2007 - TVNZ OnDemand	516
2008 - NZonscreen Online	3178
2010 - TVNZ 50 years	4849
2010-15 - Heartland, 100% local content on Sky	3197
2011 - NZ’s Oldest Telly	3050
2011-07 Television New Zealand Amendment Bill	3972
2014 - Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision	3552
2014 - The budget was supposed to signal better access to NZ's TV heritage....	6983
2015 - Netflix launched in NZ	115
2020 - $1.3m per year for four years allocated to fund digital preservation	2615
2020 to 2025 - Utaina	1678
2023 - Plans for Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM ) dropped	1230
2024 - TV3 Cancels the News	2629
Photo Album	5535
RNZ NZ Screen History series	2011
Situations Vacant	1227