X Marks the Spot (1977ish)
A fellow local tv enthusiast's discovery in the ngataonga.org.nz catalogue of a Spot On
report about a mystery TV production leads to an international hunt for one of the stars from the show and the background to a lost piece of local tv history...
2024 New Zealand Television Award winners
The New Zealand Television Awards honour achievement in New Zealand television, spanning a wide range of categories, including drama, comedy, documentary, news, current affairs, entertainment, and more.
| NZ On Air Best Drama | After The Party | Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Comedy | The Motherhood Anthology – Give Me Babies | Eyes and Ears / Oriental Maidens / TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+ | ||
| Best Factual Series | Escaping Utopia | Warner Bros. International Television Production NZ / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | ||
| NZ On Air Best Documentary | Family Faith Footy: A Pasifika Rugby Story | Great Southern Television Ltd / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | ||
| Best Original Reality Series | Down For Love – Season 2 | Attitude Pictures / TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+ | ||
| Best Current Affairs Programme | Q+A with Jack Tame | TVNZ / TVNZ 1 and TVNZ+ | ||
| NZ On Air Best Children’s Programme | Kiri & Lou | Kiri and Lou Ltd / Sky | ||
| Te Māngai Pāho Best Māori Programme | NZ Wars: Stories of Tauranga Moana | Aotearoa Media Collective / RNZ / TVNZ+ | ||
| Te Māngai Pāho Best Reo Māori Programme | Te Karere – Nationwide Activation Day | TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | ||
| NZ On Air Best Pasifika Programme | Family Faith Footy: A Pasifika Rugby Story | Great Southern Television Ltd / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | ||
| Best News Coverage | 1 News at Six – Cyclone Gabrielle – One Year On | TVNZ / 1News, TVNZ 1 | ||
| Best Sports Programme | Ruamata: It’s More Than Hockey | Mairanga Media / RNZ | ||
| Best Live Event Coverage | Anzac 2024 | Whakaata Māori / MĀORI+ | ||
| Best Entertainment Programme | New Zealand Today | Kevin & Co / Warner Bros. Discovery / Three & ThreeNow | ||
| Best Director: Documentary/Factual | Sophie Musgrove & Siddharth Nambiar | Dynamic Planet | NHNZ Worldwide / NEON / Sky Open / Sky Go | |
| Screen Auckland Best Director: Drama / Comedy Drama | Peter Salmon | After The Party | Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | |
| Best Actress | Robyn Malcolm | After The Party | Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | |
| Best Supporting Actress | Tara Canton | After The Party | Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | |
| Best Actor | Peter Mullan | After The Party | Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | |
| Best Supporting Actor | SElz Carrad | After The Party | Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | |
| Reporter of the Year | Lisette Reymer | Newshub | Warner Bros. Discovery / Three & ThreeNow | |
| Best Presenter: Entertainment | Karen O’Leary | Paddy Gower Has Issues | Warner Bros. Discovery / Three & ThreeNow | |
| Best Presenter: News And Current Affairs | Jack Tame | Q+A with Jack Tame | TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | |
| Television Personality of the Year | Bella Kalolo | Shortland Street | TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+ | |
| Television Legend | Dame Julie Christie | |||
| Best Editing: Documentary / Factual | Tori Bindoff, Carl Budden | Escaping Utopia | Warner Bros. International Television Production NZ / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | |
| Best Editing: Drama / Comedy Drama | Denise Haratzis | After The Party | Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | |
| Best Camerawork: Documentary / Factual | Mark Chamberlin | The Hui | Great Southern Television Ltd / Warner Bros. Discovery / Three & ThreeNow | |
| Best Director: Multi Camera | Matt Quin | NRL playoffs – Warriors v Knights | Sky Sport NZ / Sky Sport 1 | |
| Images & Sound Best Cinematography: Drama / Comedy Drama | Dave Cameron NZCS ACS | After The Party | Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | |
| Best Contribution to a Soundtrack | Pinnacle Post Sound Team | Our Flag Means Death – Season 2 | NEON & Sky Open | |
| Images & Sound Best Original Score | Andrew Keoghan, Reb Fountain | Escaping Utopia | Warner Bros. International Television Production New Zealand / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | |
| Best Post Production Design | Alana Cotton | Testify | Warner Bros. International Television Production New Zealand / TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+ | |
| Best Production Design | Neville Stevenson | Dark City – The Cleaner | Endeavour Ventures Ltd / NEON & Sky Open | |
| Best Costume Design | Briar Vivian | Far North | White Balance Pictures / South Pacific Pictures / Warner Bros. Discovery / Three & ThreeNow | |
| Best Makeup Design | Janene Cissi | The Boy, The Queen And Everything In Between | Lucky Legs Media Ltd / TVNZ 2 & TVNZ+ | |
| Best Script: Comedy | Simone Nathan | Kid Sister | Greenstone TV / TVNZ+ | |
| Best Script: Drama | Dianne Taylor | After The Party | Lingo Pictures / Luminous Beast / TVNZ 1 & TVNZ+ | |
1961 - WNTV1 arrives in Wellington
In 1996 filmmaker and projectionist Cyril Townsend talked with Jack Perkins about his later career working in the formative years of television.
1970 - WNTV1 start of the day's broadcast
A nice bit of audio from WNTV 1 recorded by a viewer/listener in Island Bay in Wellington on March 28, 1970.
YouTube seems to think the music is Theme From Golden Boy (Big Band Version) by Quincy Jones And His Orchestra
off the album Golden Boy
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Archives taking requests
The Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision website has recently (July 2024) been updated announcing that after a four year moratorium they are now servicing some personal use requests:
This is subject to rights clearances and whether we have digital copies available for sharing. Contact our Customer Supply team for more information through the make a request form.
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has custodianship of the TVNZ archive as well as other film and moving image archives so they are the only source for most older TV material. I'd be interested to know how much luck folks have accessing material.
We are destroyers rather than hoarders of our past...
Recently discovered this passage in Joanne Dryton's Hudson & Halls: The Food of Love (pg9) that stopped me in my tracks as she perfectly sums up the fate of so much of New Zealand's television output, and sadly there is little evidence that even present day productions will fare any better.
Sadly, today, there is very little left of the 300 programmes Hudson and Halls made during their 11 years on New Zealand television: just a handful of complete shows, some film excerpts shot in the late 1970s, a few interviews and some Telethon footage. The duo's sparse representation in our film and television archive is an indictment on our capacity to recognise what is great and value it. We are destroyers rather than hoarders of our past: Kiwis let go of their treasures too easily. The consequence of historical amnesia is a present that lacks wisdom and self- knowledge.
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How many New Zealand archival TV shows have been digitally preserved?
TVNZ archive titles would be a subset of the figures for 2019 onwards which record all audio visual material processed. As the TVNZ material has often been categorised as "at risk" I've always assumed that they make up a majority of titles being preserved each year, as one stated aim is to have 200,000 at risk tapes digitalised by 2025; thus it is great to see that according the 2023/24 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision annual report over 95% of the TVNZ magnetic media collection has now been digitised.
Read more: How many New Zealand archival TV shows have been digitally preserved?
