History

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

Articles
Title	Hits
1925 - Radio Broadcasting Company	1150
1932 - Broadcast Board established	1179
1936 - First TV set in New Zealand?	464
1936 - National Broadcasting Service takes over	1040
1946 - New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS)	1068
1951 - New Zealand Sees its First Television	2664
1959 - Birth of TV in New Zealand	7086
1959 - Station 1YA Begins TV Transmissions	566
1960 - 2000 TV ownership and the license fee	1229
1960 - NZBS TV2 Regular broadcasts begin	2143
1960s - CHTV-3 N.Z.B.C. news service	436
1961 - CHTV-3 begins broadcasting	768
1961 - TV broadcasts outside of Auckland	1309
1961 - WNTV1 arrives in Wellington	991
1962 - 1975 DNTV2	1575
1962 - New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) arrives	1471
1962 - NZBC Mt. Victoria transmitter site	1893
1963 - New Zealand Television Workshop	9450
1964 - Pictures on Tape	1056
1965 - An independent view	1313
1965 - CHTV-3 Sugarloaf Transmitter switched on	755
1965 - Staging Staff at WNTV	1395
1966 - N.Z.B.C. Asks Authors To Write Plays For TV	442
1967 - First nation-wide link	1192
1968 - Local shows made up more than 25% of broadcasts	815
1969 - First colour TV transmission in NZ	5017
1969 - National Telecasts began	569
1969 - New Dimension For TV	2838
1969 - Startling new TV Development	1155
1969 - TV to assume censorship control	1384
1970 - First Colour TV in Christcurch and IFTV-5	558
1970 - first nation-wide live sports coverage	534
1970 - WNTV1 start of the day's broadcast	1091
1971 - First use of colour video camera in WNTV1 Studios	1028
1971 - looking back over the first ten years of CHTV3	1694
1971 - Satellite ground station at Warkworth opened	555
1974-01-24: Most New Zealanders' first glimpse of colour television	1631
1975 - Three way split into Television One, Television Two and Radio New Zealand.	1298
1976 - South Pacific Television (SPTV) appears	1379
1980 - One + South Pacific Television = Television New Zealand (TVNZ)	1742
1980 - Regional News returned	1267
1989 - New Zealand Broadcasting Commission / NZ On Air	575
1989 - TV3 begins broadcasting	1897
1989 - TV3 looks for staff	1306
1997 - TV4 starts broadcasting	1096
1998 - Triangle Television	1881
2004 - Māori Television launches	648
2007 - Digital free to air TV via Freeview	527
2007 - PM on Shortland St. 15th Anniversary	2026
2007 - TVNZ OnDemand	548
2008 - NZonscreen Online	3213
2010 - TVNZ 50 years	4894
2010-15 - Heartland, 100% local content on Sky	3237
2011 - NZ’s Oldest Telly	3101
2011-07 Television New Zealand Amendment Bill	4003
2014 - Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision	3606
2014 - The budget was supposed to signal better access to NZ's TV heritage....	7057
2015 - Netflix launched in NZ	158
2020 - $1.3m per year for four years allocated to fund digital preservation	2682
2020 to 2025 - Utaina	1762
2023 - Plans for Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM ) dropped	1275
2024 - TV3 Cancels the News	2721
Photo Album	5558
RNZ NZ Screen History series	2051
Situations Vacant	1241