Today’s TV: Tuesday 21 February 1984
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Looks like that Winter Olympic are 2 hour highlight weekly broadcast back in the 1980s since it’s a more low profile the the Summer Games where TV coverage is more extensive as it always. It is not fair that you have to get SKY and pay for live coverage for the Winter Olympics nowadays either the good thing is Prime TV is televising some live event but their coverage is still ametaurist
Te Karere: 40th anniversary
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@Korero @OnAir This year the Māori news programme Te Karere is celebrating its 40th anniversary. It started off on the evening of Monday 26 July 1982 as a short, two minute summary during Māori Language Week and within the next year, the news in te reo Māori had become a permanent fixture on New Zealand television - despite much dispute and argument.
Argument had flared up over whether Te Karere was to be between 3-5 minutes in duration, whether there were enough staff and facilities to support it regularly, and even on which network it would be scheduled. Longtime broadcaster and bilingual Māori Derek Fox managed to weather the rows, and Te Karere went to air as a four minute programme, on TV2 (now TVNZ 2) at 5.55pm everywhere except the East Coast, where because of reception problems it was broadcast on TV One (now TVNZ 1). The first, regular edition of Te Karere was broadcast on the evening of Monday 21 February 1983.
Today, Te Karere screens on TVNZ 1 at 4pm and has been running for 30 minutes in duration since 2009.
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I think it had more to do with TV2 not being broadcast all the way up the East Coast, whereas TV1 was. I believe the switching was pretty archaic too… and wasn’t unnoticable in the slightest.
So when did East Coast get proper reception
Proper coverage? Never, there were pockets of the East Coast that only ever got TV1. Bigger places got TV2 as well, but even by ASO, the only way to get more channels outside of Gisborne was to go buy a satellite dish.
Edit: I’m talking analogue, here, of course.
Even when Prime came in 1998 Gisborne region had be transmitted through VHF while rest of the country had UHF signal. I know East Coast is different to the rest of the country
Yep, there was VHF spectrum still available there, which was always preferably over UHF, especially in hillier areas where the signal can bounce better.
Below is a list of TV licenses issued for the general area. Not all these may have actually been used, but it gives a good idea of the reach of the channels over the last 30 years of the Analogue era. TV1 by far reaches more people, and would have by miles back in the 80’s, when TV2’s footprint was still a bit limited.
FYI, Wheatstone Road covered much of Gisborne, and Whakapunake was the main transmitter for the lower East Coast (Wheatstone & Parikanapa are currently used for Digital TV).
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Today’s TV: Tuesday 26 February 1985
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TV One
11.30am Play School (Rpt)
11.55 You and Your Child (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.55 Tai Chi
1.05 Archie Bunker’s Place
1.35 Days of Our Lives
2.30 You and Your Child (Rpt)
2.35 Play School (Rpt)
3.00 Sesame Street (Rpt)
4.00 After School, including:
4.00 Mickey and Donald
4.30 Video Dispatch
5.00 The Flintstones (Rpt)
5.30 The Mockers: A Shazam Special (Rpt)
5.50 Te Karere (East Coast viewers only)
6.00 Taxi (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Indiana Jones: Heroes and Sidekicks
8.30 The Tuesday Feature: Breakthrough (1978)
10.20 WKRP in Cincinnati (Rpt)
10.45 News
10.50 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm Prisoner
3.25 General Hospital
3.55 Eight Is Enough (Rpt)
4.50 Animals, Animals, Animals
5.10 That Girl
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere (Nationwide except East Coast)
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Sullivans
7.30 Highway to Heaven
8.30 Tuesday Documentary: Aristocrats (Part 2)
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 1915 (Part 2) (Rpt)
11.00 Hawaii Five-O
12.00am Closedown
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Today’s TV: Saturday 27 February 1988
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TV One
6.45am Teletext in Vision
7.00 My Little Pony ‘n Friends
7.30 The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
8.00 The New Scooby-Doo Show (Rpt)
8.30 Gentle Ben (Rpt)
9.00 CHiPs (Rpt)
10.00 Sport on One, including:
10.00 Preview, home and away, sports news
10.15 Football (NZ v Young Brazil) - highlights
10.30 Cycling (National Cycling Championships) - highlights
11.00 Cricket (NZ v England) - second test, day three; live from Eden Park, Auckland
1.00pm Cycling (National Cycling Championship) - highlights
1.40 Cricket (NZ v England) - second test, day three; continued live coverage
3.40 Racing (Air NZ Stakes) - live from Ellerslie Racecourse, Auckland
3.50 Winter Olympics (Calgary ‘88) - highlights of day 13
4.00 Cricket (NZ v England) - second test, day three; continued live coverage
6.00 Cycling (National Cycling Championships) - highlights
6.30 Network News
7.10 Noel Edmonds’ Late, Late Breakfast Show (Final)
8.00 Sports Special: Winter Olympics - Calgary ‘88
Day 14 - highlights from Calgary
10.00 News
10.10 The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (Part 3) (Rpt)
11.25 Film International: Roma, Citta Aperta (Open City) (1945) (B&W)
An Italian film with English subtitles
1.25am Closedown
Network Two
11.45am Teletext in Vision
Noon A Big Country (Final)
12.30 The World Dance Championships 1987
1.20 The Love Boat (Final) (Rpt)
2.15 Entertainment This Week (Rpt)
An edited version of last Tuesday’s programme
3.05 The People’s Court
3.35 The Bob Newhart Show (Rpt)
4.00 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (Rpt)
5.00 Floyd on Fish (Final)
5.30 Taxi (Rpt)
6.00 Throb
6.30 Peppermint Twist
7.00 Griffin’s Top Town
7.30 Crazy Like a Fox
8.30 Lotto (Live draw)
8.35 Mini-Series: All the Rivers Run (Part 3) (Rpt)
10.35 Soap
11.05 Summer Music Special: The Angels Live at Narrara
12.05am Closedown
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Extra: Friday 26 February 1988
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TV One
10.25am Teletext in Vision
10.40 The Magic Roundabout (Rpt)
10.50 Sports Special: Cricket
NZ v England - second test, day two; live from Eden Park, Auckland
1.05pm Mr Belvedere
1.35 Sports Special: Cricket
NZ v England - second test, day two; live from Eden Park, Auckland (continued)
6.00 Te Karere
6.15 Sports Special: Cricket
NZ v England - second test, day two; highlights
6.30 Network News
7.00 Coronation Street
7.30 Sports Special: Winter Olympics - Calgary ‘88
Day 13 - highlights from Calgary
9.00 The Sweeney (Rpt)
10.00 News
10.10 The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (Part 2) (Rpt)
11.15 Summer Movie: Killerfish (1979)
1.05am Closedown
Network Two
11.45am Teletext in Vision
Noon The Love Connection
12.30 The Brothers (Final) (Rpt)
2.10 The Friday Matinee: Best of the Badmen (1951) (B&W)
3.55 After School, including:
4.00 The Baker Street Boys (Final) (Rpt)
4.30 Code Red (Final) (Rpt)
5.30 Get Smart (Final) (Rpt)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 A Country Practice
7.30 The Tracey Ullman Show (Final)
8.00 Night Court
8.30 Mini-Series: All the Rivers Run (Part 2) (Rpt)
10.25 Soap (Rpt)
10.55 Special Squad
11.50 Closedown
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Could you do various weeks from 1988? Like between June and October?
In due course… I think.
Today’s TV: Monday 3 March 1975
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NZBC TV (AKTV2, WNTV1, CHTV3, DNTV2)
2.00pm News and Weather
2.05 Crime of Passion
2.57 The Girl with Something Extra
3.22 France Panorama (B&W)
3.36 Sesame Street (B&W)
4.33 Clutch Cargo (B&W)
4.43 (approx) Top Cat
5.08 Vision On (Final)
5.32 The Daily Fable
5.37 The Wonderful World of Sport
5.41 News
5.43 The Monkees
6.08 This Week in Britain
6.13 PopCo
6.38 Chess Masterpieces (Final) (B&W)
6.45 Tomorrow Today
7.00 Network News (B&W)
7.20 Regional Weather and News (B&W)
AKTV2: Look North
WNTV1: Newsview
CHTV3: The South Tonight
DNTV2: The South Tonight
7.40 The Waltons
8.30 His and Hers
8.55 Newsbrief
8.57 World in Action: Birth of a Nation
9.24 The Six Wives of Henry VIII
10.55 Late News and Weather
11.01 Feltex Television Awards 1974 (B&W)
Winner of the Documentary category
Followed by Closedown
All programmes in colour unless otherwise specified
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Today’s TV: Wednesday 5 March 1986
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TV One
10.30am The Richard Simmons Show (Rpt)
10.50 Tai Chi (Rpt)
11.00 Crossroads
11.25 The Magic Roundabout (Rpt)
11.30 Play School (Rpt)
11.55 You and Your Child (Rpt)
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Doctor in the House (Rpt)
1.35 Days of Our Lives
2.30 You and Your Child (Rpt)
2.35 Play School (Rpt)
3.00 Towser
3.05 The Munch Bunch (Rpt)
3.15 Danger Mouse
3.25 After School, including:
3.30 Richie Rich
3.40 The Perishers
3.45 Mika
4.00 The Littlest Hobo (Rpt)
4.30 Shirt Tales
5.00 Luna (Part 4)
5.30 Patchwork Hero (Part 4) (Rpt)
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Magnum PI
8.30 Credit Card
9.00 International Festival of the Arts
Dame Joan Sutherland with the NZ Symphony Orchestra - delayed coverage from Wellington
11.00 News
11.03 Closedown
TV2
Noon Petticoat Junction (B&W) (Rpt)
12.30 That’s Incredible! (Rpt)
1.25 Beauty and the Beast
1.55 See Here
2.00 Miller’s Court
2.30 Knots Landing (Rpt)
3.30 Bewitched (Rpt)
4.00 Fantasy Island
4.55 RTR Video Releases
5.45 News
5.55 Te Karere
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 The Young Doctors
7.00 Our World: Four Americans in India
8.30 Big Deal
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 Seeing Things
11.00 Starsky and Hutch (Rpt)
11.50 Closedown
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I can’t believe in 1986… NZ didn’t have any station on the air (broadcasting) until after 10.30am.
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Extra: Saturday 29 February 1992
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TV One
7.45am Teletext in Vision
8.00 Burke’s Backyard
9.00 One World of Sport: The America’s Cup Challenge
America’s Cup Challenge Series - round two
10.00 One World of Sport: Cricket
Benson & Hedges Cricket World Cup 1992 - NZ v South Africa; live from Eden Park, Auckland
6.00pm One Network News
6.30 All Creatures Great and Small (G)
7.35 Aspel & Company (G)
8.25 Murder, She Wrote (AO)
9.25 Mini-Series: North and South II (Part 1) (PGR)
11.20 One World of Sport: Cricket
Benson & Hedges Cricket World Cup 1992 - West Indies v Zimbabwe, NZ v South Africa; highlights
12.20am Closedown
Channel 2
6.00am Heathcliff (Rpt, G)
6.30 The Ewoks (Rpt, G)
7.00 Bobby’s World (Final) (G)
7.30 Toxic Crusaders (G)
8.00 What Now
Includes Mr Bogus (at 8.10), Hammerman (at 8.45) and Pirates of Dark Water (at 10.05)
11.00 Pepsi RTR Top 40
Noon Head of the Class (G)
12.30 Foul Ups, Bleeps and Blunders (G)
1.05 Saturday Cinema: God Bless the Child (1988) (PGR)
3.00 Hey Hey It’s Saturday
5.00 Star Trek: The Next Generation (G)
6.00 Pepsi RTR Countdown
6.30 America’s Funniest Home Videos
7.00 Be a Star
7.30 Baywatch
8.00 Lotto
Hilary Timmins and Grant Kereama host the first Lotto draw live from Wellington
8.05 Baywatch (Continued)
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies: War Games (1983) (Rpt)
10.55 Sticky Moments
11.40 The Saturday Late Movie: One More Saturday Night (1986) (AO)
1.35am 21 Jump Street (PGR)
2.35 Mini-Series: Amerika (Part 6) (PGR)
4.15 Movie: Supersnooper (1981) (PGR) (Continues to 6am)
TV3
6.30am Kissyfur (Rpt, G)
7.00 Good Morning Miss Bliss (G)
7.30 Hey Vern It’s Ernest (Rpt, G)
8.00 EBS (G)
Includes Garfield, Dennis the Menace and The Real Ghostbusters
9.00 Ya Hoo (G)
Includes Mighty Mouse and The Addams Family
10.00 Coca-Cola TVFM: Hits
Noon The Sherlock Holmes Movie Season: Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) (B&W) (G)
1.30 Ffizz
2.00 Floyd on France (Starting today)
2.30 Karen’s Song
3.00 3 Special: Killers at the Box Office (G)
4.00 The Wonderful World of Disney (G)
The City Fox
5.00 Robin of Sherwood
6.00 3 National News
6.30 Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game (G)
7.35 3 Special: The 1992 34th Annual Grammy Awards
10.30 Coca-Cola TVFM: Rocks
12.00am The Midnight Hour: Monsters (Double episode) (AO)
1.00 Closedown
Sky Sport
6.00am ESPN Direct - Bodies in Motion
6.30 Bodyshaping
7.00 Thoroughbred Digest
7.30 America’s Horse
8.30 Foot Locker Road Race of the Month
9.00 Skiing
North American Speed Skiing Championships
9.30 Inside the PGA Tour
10.00 Golf
LPGA Golf - Kemper Open, live
Noon Sky Sport - Horse Racing
Racing Across America
12.20 Racing from Trentham (Race one, live)
12.30 Throughbred Digest
12.55 Racing from Trentham (Race two, live)
1.05 Basketball
NBA - Chicago v Detroit, live. Plus live racing from Trentham at 1.30 (race three), 2.05 (race four), 2.40 (race five) and 3.15 (race six)
3.25 Tennis
Stuttgard Classic - final. Plus live racing from Trentham at 3.50 (race seven), 4.25 (race eight) and 5.00 (race nine)
5.15 Tennis
ATP Tour highlights
6.00 Pro-box
7.30 UK Rugby Special
8.30 Boxing
The best of Joe Louis
9.30 Golf
LPGA Golf - Kemper Open, round two
11.00 ESPN Direct - Basketball
NBA - Boston v Atlanta
1.30am Outdoors with Tommy Sanders
2.00 Sportsman’s Challenge
2.30 Great Outdoors
3.00 Jimmy Houston Outdoors
3.30 The Fishin’ Hole
3.54 English Football (Live) (Continues to 6am)
Sky Sport
CNN News 24 hours a day, including the following features:
7.00am BBC News
8.00 World Business Today
9.00 International Hour
11.00 World Business Today Update
11.30 Showbiz Today
1.00pm Moneyline
1.30 Crossfire
3.00 Larry King
5.00 Showbiz Today
7.00 BBC News
7.30 Moneyline
9.00 World Business This Week
11.00 News Update/Larry King
Sky Movies
6.00am The Fantastic Adventures of Yohko Leda (G)
7.12 Merrie Melodies (G)
8.00 Back to the Future: Part II (1989) (GY)
10.00 Back to the Future: Part III (1990) (GY)
Noon Nostalgia at Noon: The Drum (1938) (R18)
2.00 The Grey Fox (1982) (GY)
3.28 Merrie Melodies (G)
4.00 Pinchliffe Grand Prix (1981) (G)
5.20 Box Office America (G)
6.00 The Great Outdoors (1988) (GY)
7.30 Primo Music Box (G)
8.00 To Kill a Priest (1988) (RP13)
10.00 Do the Right Thing (1989) (RP13)
12.00am Horror: Tales from the Crypt (1989) (R16)
1.19 Looking for Mr Goodbar (1977) (R18)
3.29 Instant Justice (1986) (R16)
5.06 The South Bank Show: Alan Parker (1991) (G) (Continues to 6am)
On the evening of Saturday 29 February 1992, production on the live Lotto draw was transferred from Auckland to the Avalon Television Studios in Wellington, where Hilary Timmins and Grant Kereama took over from Marise Wipani and Doug Harvey as co-hosts.
Lotto would stay at Avalon for 22 years before returning to TVNZ’s Auckland studios in 2013. The first Lotto draw, to be televised live from Auckland, was on 1 August 1987.
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Today’s TV: Tuesday 6 March 1990
from the NZ Listener
TV One
9.35am Teletext in Vision
9.50 One World of Sport: Cricket
NZ v India - ODI; live from the Basin Reserve, Wellington
1.35pm One Network News / Te Karere Headlines
1.50 One World of Sport: Cricket
NZ v India - ODI; live from the Basin Reserve, Wellington (continued)
5.45 Te Karere
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Fair Go
8.00 The Good Life (Rpt, G)
8.30 Mini-Series: Murderers Among Us - The Story of Simon Wiesenthal (Part 1)
10.15 One Network News
10.45 One World of Sport: English Soccer
11.45 Return of the Saint (Rpt, AO)
12.45am Closedown
Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Telebugs (Rpt, G)
6.35 The Muppet Babies (Rpt, G)
7.00 Breakfast News
7.05 Ox Tales
7.30 Breakfast News
7.35 Defenders of the Earth
8.00 Breakfast News
8.05 The Raccoons
8.30 Breakfast News
8.35 Porky Pig (Rpt, G)
9.00 Bangers and Mash
9.05 Sesame Street (G)
10.05 Don’t Wait Up (Rpt, PGR)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
1.55 Newhart (G)
2.25 After 2, including:
2.26 Play School (Rpt)
2.50 Wisdom of the Gnomes
3.15 The Wind in the Willows
3.40 The All-New Popeye Show (Rpt)
4.05 C.O.P.S
4.30 Full House
5.00 Batman (Rpt)
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt, G)
6.30 Neighbours (Double episode)
7.30 Cheers
8.00 Night Court (PGR)
8.30 China Beach
9.30 Wiseguy
10.30 Newsbreak
10.35 Max Headroom (PGR)
11.40 The Tuesday Thriller: The Tin Man (1983)
1.30am Closedown
TV3
Noon The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
1.00 Give Us a Clue (G)
1.30 Trial by Jury (PGR)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
2.30 Another World (PGR)
3.30 Mickey Mouse Club (G)
4.00 The Real Ghostbusters (G)
4.30 Saber Rider (G)
5.00 Police Academy (G)
5.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (G)
6.00 Home and Away (G)
6.30 3 National News
7.00 Perfect Match (G)
7.30 Sidekicks (Series premiere, pilot)
8.30 Mini-Series: Crossings (Part 2)
10.30 3 National News: Nightline
11.00 The Law and Harry McGraw (AO)
12.00am (approx) Closedown
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Today’s TV: Sunday 7 March 1971
from The Press (Christchurch)
NZBC TV (CHTV3)
2.00pm Headline News
2.03 Cinema Matinee: Red Garters (1954)
3.33 Football
FA Cup - round four
4.30 Captain RN
5.18 Tomorrow Today
5.31 Headline News and Weather
5.34 Bugaloos
5.55 The Wonderful World of Disney
Disneyland: From Aesop to Hans Christian Andersen
6.45 Scrutiny
7.00 Network News / Local News
7.20 Weather
7.23 The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
8.14 Not in Front of the Children
8.44 Newsbrief
8.46 Dr Finlay’s Casebook
9.36 An Evening with…
10.36 The Night Sky
11.01 Late News and Weather
11.07 Closedown
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I see you’ve found the extended Press collection on Papers Past! Heaps of additional stuff on there now 1962-1971, including photos of the new TV tower on Sugarloaf, overlooking Christchurch (easily spotted these days during cricket matches at Hagley Oval, when bowling from the “Botanic Gardens End”).
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