History

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

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1925 - Radio Broadcasting Company 1155
1932 - Broadcast Board established 1186
1936 - First TV set in New Zealand? 466
1936 - National Broadcasting Service takes over 1045
1946 - New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS) 1072
1951 - New Zealand Sees its First Television 2680
1959 - Birth of TV in New Zealand 7104
1959 - Station 1YA Begins TV Transmissions 571
1960 - 2000 TV ownership and the license fee 1239
1960 - NZBS TV2 Regular broadcasts begin 2155
1960s - CHTV-3 N.Z.B.C. news service 443
1961 - CHTV-3 begins broadcasting 776
1961 - TV broadcasts outside of Auckland 1315
1961 - WNTV1 arrives in Wellington 1003
1962 - 1975 DNTV2 1583
1962 - New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) arrives 1482
1962 - NZBC Mt. Victoria transmitter site 1898
1963 - New Zealand Television Workshop 9462
1964 - Pictures on Tape 1060
1965 - An independent view 1317
1965 - CHTV-3 Sugarloaf Transmitter switched on 760
1965 - Staging Staff at WNTV 1402
1966 - N.Z.B.C. Asks Authors To Write Plays For TV 447
1967 - First nation-wide link 1197
1968 - Local shows made up more than 25% of broadcasts 822
1969 - First colour TV transmission in NZ 5036
1969 - National Telecasts began 575
1969 - New Dimension For TV 2842
1969 - Startling new TV Development 1160
1969 - TV to assume censorship control 1393
1970 - First Colour TV in Christcurch and IFTV-5 563
1970 - first nation-wide live sports coverage 541
1970 - WNTV1 start of the day's broadcast 1102
1971 - First use of colour video camera in WNTV1 Studios 1032
1971 - looking back over the first ten years of CHTV3 1697
1971 - Satellite ground station at Warkworth opened 560
1974-01-24: Most New Zealanders' first glimpse of colour television 1635
1975 - Three way split into Television One, Television Two and Radio New Zealand. 1304
1976 - South Pacific Television (SPTV) appears 1382
1980 - One + South Pacific Television = Television New Zealand (TVNZ) 1758
1980 - Regional News returned 1272
1989 - New Zealand Broadcasting Commission / NZ On Air 584
1989 - TV3 begins broadcasting 1915
1989 - TV3 looks for staff 1312
1997 - TV4 starts broadcasting 1099
1998 - Triangle Television 1885
2004 - Māori Television launches 653
2007 - Digital free to air TV via Freeview 536
2007 - PM on Shortland St. 15th Anniversary 2030
2007 - TVNZ OnDemand 555
2008 - NZonscreen Online 3217
2010 - TVNZ 50 years 4901
2010-15 - Heartland, 100% local content on Sky 3247
2011 - NZ’s Oldest Telly 3110
2011-07 Television New Zealand Amendment Bill 4011
2014 - Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision 3616
2014 - The budget was supposed to signal better access to NZ's TV heritage.... 7072
2015 - Netflix launched in NZ 167
2020 - $1.3m per year for four years allocated to fund digital preservation 2694
2020 to 2025 - Utaina 1784
2023 - Plans for Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM ) dropped 1280
2024 - TV3 Cancels the News 2749
Photo Album 5561
RNZ NZ Screen History series 2057
Situations Vacant 1249

Subcategories

Bibliography of KiwiTV 90

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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