History

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

Articles
Title	Hits
1925 - Radio Broadcasting Company	597
1932 - Broadcast Board established	723
1936 - First TV set in New Zealand?	82
1936 - National Broadcasting Service takes over	631
1946 - New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS)	620
1951 - New Zealand Sees its First Television	2083
1959 - Birth of TV in New Zealand	6206
1959 - Station 1YA Begins TV Transmissions	117
1960 - 2000 TV ownership and the license fee	167
1960 - NZBS TV2 Regular broadcasts begin	1446
1960s - CHTV-3 N.Z.B.C. news service	47
1961 - CHTV-3 begins broadcasting	224
1961 - TV broadcasts outside of Auckland	860
1961 - WNTV1 arrives in Wellington	376
1962 - 1975 DNTV2	1098
1962 - New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) arrives	924
1962 - NZBC Mt. Victoria transmitter site	1491
1963 - New Zealand Television Workshop	8586
1964 - Pictures on Tape	648
1965 - An independent view	802
1965 - CHTV-3 Sugarloaf Transmitter switched on	116
1965 - Staging Staff at WNTV	893
1966 - N.Z.B.C. Asks Authors To Write Plays For TV	126
1967 - First nation-wide link	814
1968 - Local shows made up more than 25% of broadcasts	192
1969 - First colour TV transmission in NZ	3927
1969 - National Telecasts began	86
1969 - New Dimension For TV	2267
1969 - Startling new TV Development	719
1969 - TV to assume censorship control	846
1970 - First Colour TV in Christcurch and IFTV-5	71
1970 - first nation-wide live sports coverage	82
1970 - WNTV1 start of the day's broadcast	493
1971 - First use of colour video camera in WNTV1 Studios	543
1971 - looking back over the first ten years of CHTV3	1108
1971 - Satellite ground station at Warkworth opened	60
1974-01-24: Most New Zealanders' first glimpse of colour television	873
1975 - Three way split into Television One, Television Two and Radio New Zealand.	754
1976 - South Pacific Television (SPTV) appears	829
1980 - One + South Pacific Television = Television New Zealand (TVNZ)	959
1980 - Regional News returned	848
1989 - New Zealand Broadcasting Commission / NZ On Air	82
1989 - TV3 begins broadcasting	907
1989 - TV3 looks for staff	679
1997 - TV4 starts broadcasting	578
1998 - Triangle Television	1287
2004 - Māori Television launches	90
2007 - Digital free to air TV via Freeview	74
2007 - PM on Shortland St. 15th Anniversary	1522
2007 - TVNZ OnDemand	88
2008 - NZonscreen Online	2607
2010 - TVNZ 50 years	4357
2010-15 - Heartland, 100% local content on Sky	2533
2011 - NZ’s Oldest Telly	2457
2011-07 Television New Zealand Amendment Bill	3492
2014 - Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision	2872
2014 - The budget was supposed to signal better access to NZ's TV heritage....	6166
2020 - $1.3m per year for four years allocated to fund digital preservation	1701
2020 - Utaina	781
2023 - Plans for Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM ) dropped	681
2024 - TV3 Cancels the News	1430
Photo Album	5167
RNZ NZ Screen History series	1297
Situations Vacant	886