History

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

Articles
Title	Hits
1925 - Radio Broadcasting Company	640
1932 - Broadcast Board established	764
1936 - First TV set in New Zealand?	111
1936 - National Broadcasting Service takes over	669
1946 - New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS)	657
1951 - New Zealand Sees its First Television	2125
1959 - Birth of TV in New Zealand	6303
1959 - Station 1YA Begins TV Transmissions	164
1960 - 2000 TV ownership and the license fee	293
1960 - NZBS TV2 Regular broadcasts begin	1521
1960s - CHTV-3 N.Z.B.C. news service	78
1961 - CHTV-3 begins broadcasting	264
1961 - TV broadcasts outside of Auckland	899
1961 - WNTV1 arrives in Wellington	432
1962 - 1975 DNTV2	1133
1962 - New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) arrives	976
1962 - NZBC Mt. Victoria transmitter site	1535
1963 - New Zealand Television Workshop	8673
1964 - Pictures on Tape	686
1965 - An independent view	861
1965 - CHTV-3 Sugarloaf Transmitter switched on	154
1965 - Staging Staff at WNTV	931
1966 - N.Z.B.C. Asks Authors To Write Plays For TV	166
1967 - First nation-wide link	854
1968 - Local shows made up more than 25% of broadcasts	258
1969 - First colour TV transmission in NZ	4015
1969 - National Telecasts began	124
1969 - New Dimension For TV	2324
1969 - Startling new TV Development	762
1969 - TV to assume censorship control	892
1970 - First Colour TV in Christcurch and IFTV-5	112
1970 - first nation-wide live sports coverage	122
1970 - WNTV1 start of the day's broadcast	559
1971 - First use of colour video camera in WNTV1 Studios	598
1971 - looking back over the first ten years of CHTV3	1170
1971 - Satellite ground station at Warkworth opened	112
1974-01-24: Most New Zealanders' first glimpse of colour television	948
1975 - Three way split into Television One, Television Two and Radio New Zealand.	798
1976 - South Pacific Television (SPTV) appears	883
1980 - One + South Pacific Television = Television New Zealand (TVNZ)	1029
1980 - Regional News returned	890
1989 - New Zealand Broadcasting Commission / NZ On Air	134
1989 - TV3 begins broadcasting	1005
1989 - TV3 looks for staff	738
1997 - TV4 starts broadcasting	631
1998 - Triangle Television	1359
2004 - Māori Television launches	143
2007 - Digital free to air TV via Freeview	110
2007 - PM on Shortland St. 15th Anniversary	1574
2007 - TVNZ OnDemand	131
2008 - NZonscreen Online	2672
2010 - TVNZ 50 years	4396
2010-15 - Heartland, 100% local content on Sky	2595
2011 - NZ’s Oldest Telly	2510
2011-07 Television New Zealand Amendment Bill	3537
2014 - Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision	2926
2014 - The budget was supposed to signal better access to NZ's TV heritage....	6283
2020 - $1.3m per year for four years allocated to fund digital preservation	1788
2020 - Utaina	865
2023 - Plans for Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM ) dropped	739
2024 - TV3 Cancels the News	1604
Photo Album	5201
RNZ NZ Screen History series	1369
Situations Vacant	921