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There is quite a bit of space between Ch1 and Ch2, so they could operate next to each other. A bit like the situation in Wellington with TVOne on Ch1 and Four on Ch2. The biggest problem would have been interference with Ch1 from Te Aroha, which could be seen very easily in southern parts of Auckland.

TV3 operated on both Ch9 and Ch10 in Hamilton from the same site. Those channels are literally right next to each other in terms of frequencies and I was quite impressed at how they could operate those two channels next to each other from the same site.

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Yeah. Going by the Radiation Patterns on the RSM site, they were orientated in different directions, I guess to avoid interference up & down country with other signals.

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The orientation and output on these two licenses in particular, seemed to be changed a few times.

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I didn’t know the RSM website still had that information from the analogue days available. I’ve been trying to get info about the old analogue transmissions especially the small and super small sites.

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It does, but you’ll need to do a fair bit of drilling to get data out of it. Hope you like spreadsheeting!

Kordia had a brilliant map, from 2005 or thereabouts, that had all the Analogue TV frequencies, sites, and general power outputs. It was broken down into North Island & South Island seconds, and had a copy of it once, but I think I deleted it (and wished I’d kept a backup). It used to be downloadable from their website, but the Wayback Machine doesn’t seem to have it and I’ve not found it anywhere else.

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that spreadsheet is going to send me down a rabbit warren of questions. You’ve been warned :stuck_out_tongue:

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OK, so I do have some questions. And apologies for my ignorance, there is a lot I don’t know about NZ TV!

“Trackside” was a free-to-air channel? Was this a commercial licence? I understand that this is now on Sky and not free-to-air?

“Maori” is free-to-air I assume?

The “Movies”, “Sport”, “Box” titles relate to pay-TV (Sky?) channels?

What is the nature of the “local” channels? These are local commercial channels? Nelson, Auckland and Christchurch had three “local” channels, but Wellington had none, and Dunedin one? How did that come about?

And just an observation… it’s easy to take for granted that in Australia we had a fairly simplified allocation of frequencies in the larger cities (e.g. 0, 2, 7, 9, 10, 28, 31), probably in part made easier due to the large distances between the cities, so as an Aussie it seems bizarre to see such a wild variation in channel allocations across NZ which don’t appear to have any particular pattern especially among the major cities.

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Yep, Trackside had commercial licenses, despite it being effectively a Govt Enterprise. I’m not sure how much they paid for said licenses, with the Rt. Hon. Winston Peters involved, I doubt it would have been much! In the digital revolution, the TAB hocked off their licenses to World TV, who run two Chinese channels, and the nags forevermore have been pay-tv only.

Maori TV was FTA. The frequencies used in the high 30’s were set aside for them as part of Treaty of Waitangi negotiations, and the others were owned by SKY TV - leased to Maori TV as it was easier to implement a nationwide network quickly that way. The former SKY Frequencies used to show Sky News/CNN.

Yep, Movies, Sport and Box (also previously known as Sky1 and Orange), were all scrambled pay-channels.

Most of the local channels were commercial. Some, like Triangle in Auckland, were non-commercial. As NZ’s broadcasting laws basically turned “Wild West” from 1989, anyone could apply for a license (so long as it was available) for a set period and setup a station. Christchurch had quite a few, particularly around 2000, because TVNZ had largely pulled out and left a lot of frustrated former staff who thought they’d give it a crack. Today, sadly, there’s none there at all. I’m not sure if Nelson’s Marketing & Business Assn stuck their oar in before the networks decided Nelson was big enough, but they nabbed a meaty chunk of spectrum, and went with it. Mainland TV is still going today, broadcasting outside of Freeview, but using the same tech. There were a couple of attempts of local TV in Wellington, but they never took to it (probably a Capital thing, I dunno). A couple of post-digital stayers are TVHB (Hawke Bay), Channel 9 (now 39, Dunedin), 45 South TV (Oamaru), Mainland TV, and Shine (which started as Freedom TV in cluttered-old Christchurch).
A lot of these little channels came and went; tended to show a mix of; 4pm, tourism wrangling, 5pm, shopping programme, 5:30, news (if you’re lucky) or cheap old show repeat, 6pm DW tv (free to re transmit, I believe), repeat, then 7:30-8pm ish, something local, then repeat again. I’m generalising a bit there, but that was the typical gist.

There were 9 bands of 4 channels in the UHF spectrum. Channels 27-34 & 43-62 were fully commercial; Channels 35-38 were set aside for Maori Broadcasting; Channels 39-42 were non-commercial.

There was some standardised frequency allocation, generally following geographical and topographical limits (to avoid interference). Big use of the 6-8-10 combo (for TV1, TV2, TV3) was used in those sort of places. UHF, as I alluded to, used to be ‘cassetted’ so in Christchurch, they’d only broadcast on the fourth of each of the four (and the second for infill), and in Timaru they’d use the first of each four.
But yeah, NZ never really had an Auntie on 2, or 9 on 9, and it’s just as bizarre from our end to see everything so organised (a testament to the size of Australia, I guess).

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Saturday 22 February 1992
from the NZ Listener

TV One
7.45am Teletext in Vision
8.00 Burke’s Backyard (Series premiere) (G)
9.00 One World of Sport: The America’s Cup Challenge
10.00 One World of Sport: Cricket World Cup 1992
Opening ceremony, followed by New Zealand v Australia. Live from Eden Park, Auckland. Includes Newsbreak at 6pm
7.30pm One Network News
8.00 Aspel & Company (PGR)
8.45 Murder, She Wrote (AO)
9.45 One World of Sport: The XVI Winter Olympics
11.00 One World of Sport: 1992 AMP New Zealand Golf Open (Highlights)
11.30 One World of Sport: The XVI Winter Olympics (Continued)
12.30am Saturday Film Club: Fellini’s Roma (1972) (Rpt, AO)
2.45 Closedown

Channel 2
6.00am Heathcliff (Rpt, G)
6.30 The Ewoks (Rpt, G)
7.00 Bobby’s World (G)
7.30 Toxic Crusaders (G)
8.00 What Now, including:
8.10 Mr Bogus
8.45 Hammerman
10.05 Pirates of Dark Water
11.00 Pepsi RTR Top 40
Noon Ferris Bueller (Final)
12.30 Foul Ups, Bleeps and Blunders (G)
1.00 Saturday Cinema: Fantastic Voyage (1966) (Rpt, G)
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 (Series premiere)
7.30 Baywatch
8.00 Lotto (Live draw)
8.05 Baywatch (Continued)
8.35 Saturday Night at the Movies: Burgular (1987)
10.35 Sticky Moments
11.20 The Saturday Late Movie: Hang 'Em High (1968) (Rpt, AO)
1.20am 21 Jump Street (PGR)
2.20 Movie: Cannery Row (1982) (AO)
4.20 Movie: Oh God, You Devil (1984) (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 (Includes Garfield, Dennis the Menace, Slimer and Friends) (G)
9.00 Ya Hoo (Includes Mighty Mouse, The Addams Family) (G)
10.00 Coca-Cola TVFM: Hits
Noon The Sherlock Holmes Movie Season: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) (B&W)
1.30 Ffizz (G)
2.00 Mediterranean Cookery (Final) (G)
2.30 Karen’s Song (G)
3.00 The Arctic (Final) (G)
4.00 Wonderful World of Disney: Three Without Fear (G)
5.00 Robin of Sherwood
6.00 3 National News
6.30 Bruce Forsyth’s Generation Game (G)
7.35 Family Night at the Movies: Superman II (1980)
10.15 Coca-Cola TVFM: Rocks
12.00am The Midnight Hour: Tales from the Darkside (Final) (AO)
12.30 Monsters (AO)
1.00 Closedown

Sky Movies
6.00am Joe at the Kingdom of Bees (G)
7.00 Joe at the Kingdom of Ants (G)
8.05 Joe and the Sleeping Beauty (G)
9.10 Hansel and Gretel (G)
10.30 Hot to Trot (1988) (GY)
Noon Nostalgia at Noon: The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) (B&W) (G)
2.50 Red King, White Knight (1989)
4.35 Dallos (G)
6.10 Parenthood (1989) (GA)
8.15 Erik the Viking (1989) (GA)
10.00 Chances Are (1989) (GA)
11.50 Horror: Nightbreed (1989)
1.27am Bloodbrothers (1978) (R16)
3.19 Gemini Affair (R18)
4.52 Videofashion (G)
5.11 The Making of “Supergirl” (G) (Continues to 6am)

CTV
11.00am CTV Race Day (Includes live racing from Masterton and Ashburton)
5.30pm Forge Racing Round-Up
5.55 CTV Movie Preview
6.00 Scoreboard
6.30 CTV Sports Hour (Beach volleyball)
7.30 Taxi (G)
8.00 Hopkins’ Half Hour
8.30 Movie: The Naked Civil Servant
10.00 CTV Movie Preview (G)
10.05 Soap (AO)
10.55 Closedown

Before Homai Te Pakipaki and Sidewalk Karaoke, Jay Laga’aia hosted Be a Star, a musical entertainment show in which 16 “Karaoke Kiwis” competed each week towards an appearance in the final and $45,000 in prizes. The show, which aired on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) at 7pm on Saturday nights during the early part of 1992, was short-lived … I think.

Over on TV One (now TVNZ 1), Burke’s Backyard, which had been on Australia’s Channel Nine since 1987, made its first appearance on New Zealand TV screens that day (Saturday 22 February 1992 at 8am). This was followed by the America’s Cup, then live coverage of the Cricket World Cup 1992 opening ceremony and opening match (New Zealand v Australia) at Auckland’s Eden Park.

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Four different sports events on one day. One World of Sport was such a great brand.

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Thanks for the answers :smiley:

Interesting to see NZ go from one of the most restructive broadcasting regulations (e.g. state-based monopoly for 30 years, more restrictive than even the UK) to one of the most deregulated

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Thursday 28 February 1991
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.45am Teletext in Vision
Noon Hard Copy
12.30 Film on One: The Rain People (1969)
2.30 Matinee on One: The Stranger (1946)
4.15 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt, G)
4.45 Emmerdale (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Dad’s Army (Rpt, G)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Foreign Correspondent
9.35 Waiting for God (PGR)
10.10 One Network News
10.40 Chelworth (PGR)
11.50 Life Without George (Rpt, AO)
12.25am Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Hallo Spencer Show (Rpt, G)
7.00 Woody Woodpecker (Final) (G)
7.30 Heathcliff (G)
8.00 ITN World News
8.25 The Ewoks (Rpt, G)
8.55 Bugs Bunny and Friends (Rpt)
9.05 Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
10.05 Real Food of China (Rpt, G)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Newhart
2.30 After 2, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt)
3.00 Casper and His Friends (G)
3.30 Defenders of the Earth
4.00 Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (G)
4.30 ALF (Rpt, G)
5.00 Charles in Charge (Rpt, G)
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Perfect Strangers (Rpt, G)
6.30 Blind Date
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 Totally Hidden Video (G)
8.00 Who’s the Boss?
8.30 China Beach
9.30 Magnum, PI (Rpt, PGR)
10.30 Capital City (PGR)
11.30 Adam-12 (PGR)
12.05am Closedown

TV3
Noon Trial by Jury (PGR)
12.30 NBC Nightly News
1.30 Another World (PGR)
2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
3.30 Dennis the Menace (Rpt, G)
4.00 The Mickey Mouse Club (Rpt, G)
4.30 Police Academy (Rpt, G)
5.00 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (G)
5.30 Home and Away (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Hey Dad…! (G)
7.30 E Street (Series premiere)
9.30 GP (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Late Movie: Beyond Therapy (1987)
1.00am Closedown

Sky Movies
Noon Doctor in Clover (1967)
2.00 The Last of the Knucklemen (R16)
4.00 The Hayley Mills Storybook
6.00 For Love Alone (1985) (GA)
8.00 Doin’ Time (1985) (R16)
9.50 The Untouchables (1987) (RP16)
12.00am Jacknife (1989) (GA)
1.43 Closedown

E Street made its New Zealand television debut on TV3 (now Three) at 7.30pm on the evening of Thursday 28 February 1991, beginning with a feature-length pilot (first seen on Australia’s Network Ten two years earlier). By mid-year, the show was dropped and replaced with The Ralston Group (with Bill Ralston), followed at 8pm by the British sitcom Shelley.

In 1992, however, E Street was soon picked up by TVNZ and screened on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) on Fridays at 7.30pm but moved to five afternoons a week on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at around 2.30pm just several months later. Unlike Australia and Britain, the show was not hugely popular with New Zealand audiences (I think).

Back on 3, the Australian medical drama GP was shown at 9.30pm on Thursday nights during the early part of 1991. Several years later, TVNZ picked it up.

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Sunday 22 October 1989
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 Rugby Special: Swansea v New Zealand (Delayed coverage from St Helen’s, Swansea)
8.15 Animal Families
8.25 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
8.50 The Muppet Show Command Performances (Rpt)
9.10 Praise Be
9.40 Danny’s Cafe
10.10 Peter Ustinov’s Mission to China
10.40 Stress
11.10 The Story of English (Rpt)
12.05pm English Soccer
1.00 News Review
1.25 Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus
4.15 Sports Special (Includes rugby and rugby league)
6.00 Network News and Sport
6.30 Country Calendar
7.00 Frontline
7.30 University Challenge
8.00 Bread
8.30 Howards’ Way
9.35 Network News
9.45 Kaleidoscope
10.10 The Monocled Mutineer (Rpt)
11.30 I Didn’t Know You Cared (Rpt)
12.05am Closedown

Channel 2
10.45am Teletext in Vision
11.00 Waka Huia
Noon Opus
1.00 USA Today
1.40 Kate & Allie
2.10 Upstairs, Downstairs (Rpt)
3.10 Frank’s Place (Series return)
3.35 Mother and Son (Rpt)
4.10 A Country Practice
5.05 United Theatresports National Final 1989
5.35 Life in the Fridge Exists
6.00 The Champion
6.30 ALF
7.00 The Cosby Show
7.30 MacGyver
8.30 The Sunday Premiere Movie: Only When I Laugh (1981)
10.50 Entertainment This Week
11.45 The Film Club: The Tenant (1976)
1.50am Closedown

@TV4 TV One (now TVNZ 1) commenced transmission at 6.30am on the morning of Sunday 22 August 1989 - just a few days before I was born (my birth date is, in fact, 31 October) - with delayed coverage from St Helen’s Rugby and Cricket Ground, Swansea, of a rugby match between Swansea and the All Blacks.

This was preceded at 2.45am by live coverage from Old Trafford, Manchester, of an international league test between Great Britain and the Kiwis before TV One ended transmission (at the later time of approx 4.45am).

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Any listings from 1999?

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@Leotv There’s more to come … sometime in the future.

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Tuesday 10 June 1986
from the NZ Listener

TV One
9.00am Play School (Rpt)
9.25 Paddington Bear (Rpt)
9.30 The Wombles (Rpt)
9.35 You and Your Child (Rpt)
9.40 Aerobicize
10.05 Crossroads
10.30 Julia Child and Company (Rpt)
11.00 News
11.02 The Onedin Line (Rpt)
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Last of the Summer Wine (Rpt)
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:
4.05 The Adventures of the Little Prince
4.30 The Video Dispatch
5.00 The Flintstones (Rpt)
5.30 Dr Who
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt)
6.30 News
Regional Programmes: Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington),
The Mainland Touch (Christchurch), The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Fair Go
8.00 Family Ties
8.30 Miami Vice
9.30 Return to Eden
10.30 It’s a Living (Making a Living) (Series return)
11.00 News
11.05 Mackenzie (Rpt)
12.00am Closedown

TV2
5.30am Football: FIFA World Cup 1986 (France v Hungary, live)
8.00 Closedown
Noon Petticoat Junction (Rpt)
12.30 Newsline
1.25 Beauty and the Beast
1.50 See Here
2.00 Crown Court (Rpt)
2.30 Prisoner
3.30 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt)
4.00 Fantasy Island (Rpt)
5.00 Country Calendar (Rpt)
5.15 Small Wonder
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 The Young Doctors
7.30 Who’s the Boss?
8.00 Arthur C Clarke’s World of Strange Powers
8.30 Tuesday Documentary: Tarawera / In the Minds of Men
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 The Beiderbecke Affair (Final)
11.00 Hawaii Five-O (Rpt)
11.55 Closedown

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Ah reminds me quite a bit of growing up in regional Queensland in the 80s with only 2 stations - a lot of similar programs and TV One seemed a bit ABC-ish

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Friday 13 September 1991
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 Massey University 1991 (Final)
7.30 Closedown
10.30 Sorry! (Rpt, G)
11.00 The Great Wood of Caledon
Noon ABC World News
12.30 Film on One: Dream Chasers (1984) (Rpt, G)
2.20 Griffin’s Classic Matinee: The Naked Spur (1953) (B&W) (Rpt, G)
4.15 Kate & Allie (Rpt, G)
4.45 Emmerdale (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Casualty (AO)
9.35 Bread (PGR)
10.10 One Network News
10.40 Mini-Series: Captain James Cook (Part 2) (PGR)
12.50am Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Smurfs (Rpt, G)
7.00 ITN World News
7.25 Huckleberry Hound (Rpt, G)
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt)
8.25 Wildtrack (G)
8.30 Touche Turtle (Rpt, G)
8.40 Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
9.35 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Benson (Rpt, G)
2.30 After 2, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt, G)
3.00 Maya the Bee
3.30 The Flintstones (Rpt, G)
4.00 Wildtrack (Rpt, G)
4.05 Denver the Last Dinosaur (Rpt, G)
4.30 Peter Pan and the Pirates (G)
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show
6.00 The Very Best of Blind Date (Final)
6.30 M-A-S-H (Rpt, G)
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 Sledge Hammer! (Rpt, PGR)
8.00 Acropolis Now!
8.30 Married… with Children (AO)
9.00 'Allo 'Allo! (Rpt, PGR)
9.35 Cops (AO)
10.05 The Professionals (Rpt, AO)
11.10 Something for the Weekend (G)
11.50 Friday Late Movie: The Evil That Men Do (1984) (AO)
1.50am Closedown

TV3
Noon NBC Nightly News
12.30 Crosstown (PGR)
1.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
1.30 Another World (PGR)
2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (PGR)
3.20 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.30 The Gummi Bears (G)
4.00 DuckTales (Rpt, G)
4.30 Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (G)
5.00 Voltron (G)
5.30 Home and Away (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Hey Dad…! (Rpt, G)
7.30 Super Bloopers and New Practical Jokes (G)
8.30 Friday Night at the Movies: Mr Mom (1983) (Rpt)
10.30 Nightline
11.05 Late Movie: Friday the 13th Part II (1981)
1.05am Late Movie: Friday the 13th Part V: The New Beginning (1985) (Rpt)
3.00 Closedown

Sky Movies
Noon Nostalgia at Noon: Eternally Yours (1939) (G)
1.32 Best of British (G)
2.00 Black Tulip (1989) (G)
3.00 The Corsican Brothers (1989) (G)
4.00 Born Free (1966) (G)
5.35 Merrie Melodies (G)
6.00 1969 (1988) (GY)
7.35 Box Office America (G)
8.00 Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) (RP16)
10.00 Jacknife (1989) (GA)
11.40 After Dark: Hot Bubblegum (1981) (R18)
1.11am Closedown

CTV
5.00pm Mork & Mindy (G)
5.30 First Report (News)
6.00 Taxi (G)
6.30 The Gemini Factor (G)
7.00 Triumph of the West (G)
8.00 Movie: Medium Cool (1969) (AO)
9.00 CTV Report (News Update)
9.10 Movie: Medium Cool (Continued)
10.15 Movie: Pretty Poison (1968) (AO)
11.50 Closedown

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Monday 14 October 1991
from the NZ Listener

TV One
7.00am Teletext in Vision (Unlisted)
7.15 One World of Sport: Rugby World Cup 1991
Argentina v Western Samoa, France v Canada (delayed coverage)
10.45 Three Painters (G)
11.30 New Zealand Today
12.30pm ABC World News
1.00 One World of Sport: Rugby World Cup 1991
New Zealand v Italy (full replay)
3.00 Quantum (G)
3.15 The Rockford Files (PGR)
4.15 Kate & Allie (Rpt, G)
4.45 Take the High Road (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Beyond 2000
8.30 One World of Sport: Rugby World Cup Action Replay
10.10 One Network News
10.40 The Monday Documentary: The Second Russian Revolution
11.40 Antarctica: Frozen Ambitions (G)
1.05am Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Smurfs (Rpt, G)
7.00 ITN World News
7.25 Huckleberry Hound (Rpt)
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt)
8.25 Wildtrack
8.40 Sesame Street (G)
9.35 Play School (Rpt)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Benson (Rpt, G)
2.30 After 2, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt)
3.00 Rupert the Bear (G)
3.05 Jimbo and the Jet Set (G)
3.10 Toucan Tecs (G)
3.30 The Muppet Babies (G)
3.55 Wildtrack (Rpt)
4.00 Denver the Last Dinosaur (Rpt, G)
4.30 Peter Pan and the Pirates
5.00 Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (Simulcast on TV3) (G)
5.30 The Bugs Bunny Show
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt, G)
6.30 Candid Camera
7.00 Neighbours
7.30 The Flying Doctors (G)
8.30 Monday Night Movie: When He’s Not a Stranger (1989) (AO)
10.20 Good Sports (PGR)
10.55 thirtysomething (Series return) (G)
12.00am Closedown

TV3
Noon NBC Nightly News
12.30 Generations (PGR)
1.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
1.30 Another World (PGR)
2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
3.30 The Gummi Bears (Rpt, G)
4.00 Mickey & Donald (Rpt, G)
4.30 Double Dare (G)
5.00 Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (Simulcast on TVNZ’s Channel 2) (G)
5.30 Home and Away (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Hey Dad…! (Rpt, G)
7.30 Beadle’s About (G)
8.00 Away Laughing (PGR)
8.30 3 Mini-Series: Barbara Taylor Bradford’s To Be the Best (Part 2, final) (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.05 Twin Peaks
12.05am Closedown

Sky Movies
Noon Nostalgia at Noon: The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963) (G)
2.00 The Naked Face (1985) (R13)
4.00 Summerdog (1970) (G)
5.31 Road Runner Show (G)
6.00 Lambada (1990)
8.00 The Best Man to Die (1990) (GA)
10.25 Physical Evidence (1989) (RP13)
12.02am Box Office America (G)
12.25 After Dark: Goodbye Emmanuelle (1977) (R18)
2.00 Closedown

CTV
4.45am Susan Sells (G)
5.30 First Report (News)
6.00 George Balani (Rpt, G)
7.00 DB Draught Sport
7.30 Jim Hopkins Live (G)
8.00 First Report (News) (Rpt)
8.30 Movie: This Earth Is Mine (1959) (PGR)
10.35 Susan Sells (Rpt, G)
11.20 Closedown

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I’m guessing TV1 might have showed the game live overnight and then replayed it a couple of times for people unable to watch?

I remember both of these, despite being only around 1 at the time. I couldn’t tell you the names of the shows but googling them throws up some familiarity. Especially the Toucan show.

Apparently - if wikipedia is to be believed - this anti-drugs special was introduced by Jim Bolger.

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Monday 14 September 1992
from the NZ Listener

TV One
8.50am Teletext in Vision (Unlisted)
9.05 Film on One: Laura (1944) (B&W) (Rpt, G)
10.40 New Zealand Today
11.45 Kilroy (PGR)
12.30pm ABC World News
1.00 Jeeves and Wooster (Starting today) (PGR)
2.05 Brush Strokes (Starting today) (Rpt, PGR)
2.40 E Street (Starting today) (G)
3.40 Home and Away (Starting today)
4.10 I Love Lucy (B&W) (Rpt, G)
4.45 Take the High Road (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.30 Jeopardy!
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 The Brittas Empire (PGR)
8.05 Boots 'n All
8.35 London’s Burning (AO)
9.40 Birds of a Feather (Series return) (PGR)
10.15 Media Matters
10.30 Tonight
11.00 Monday Documentary: Red Empire (G)
12.05am Film on One: The Scarecrow (1981) (Rpt, AO)
1.50 Closedown

Channel 2
6.20am Bob in a Bottle (G)
6.50 Te Karere (Rpt)
7.00 ITN World News
7.25 Heathcliff (Rpt, G)
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt)
8.30 Kitty Cats (Final) (Rpt, G)
8.45 eTV Playdays (Rpt, G)
9.05 Shining Time Station (G)
9.35 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.05 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
10.30 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
11.00 Santa Barbara (G)
Noon The Young and the Restless (G)
1.00 Days of Our Lives (G)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful
2.30 After 2, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt, G)
3.00 Rainbow (Rpt, G)
3.20 The Ratties (Rpt, G)
3.25 Roger Ramjet (Rpt, G)
3.30 The Son of a Gunn Show
4.00 Tiny Toon Adventures (Rpt, G)
4.30 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo (Rpt, G)
5.00 The Bugs Bunny Show
5.30 Face the Music (Rpt, G)
6.00 Neighbours (G)
6.30 Wheel of Fortune
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 The Flying Doctors (PGR)
8.30 The Monday Night Movie: Donor (1990) (AO)
10.20 Late Night Studs (PGR)
10.50 Seinfeld (G)
11.20 Anything But Love (G)
11.50 New Mission: Impossible (Rpt, AO)
1.00am Closedown

TV3
Noon Parent Time (G)
12.05 The Oprah Winfrey Show (AO)
1.05 Donahue (AO)
2.05 Generations (PGR)
2.35 You and Me (G)
3.00 3PM, including:
Speed Racer, Voltron, Transformers
5.00 Get Smart (Rpt, G)
5.30 Give Us a Clue (Rpt, G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 The Price Is Right (G)
7.30 Living Earth (G)
8.00 The Golden Girls (PGR)
8.30 Monday Night at the Movies: Gorky Park (1983) (Rpt, AO)
11.05 Nightline
11.30 V (Rpt, PGR)
12.30am Closedown

Sky Movies
Noon Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989) (GA)
1.35 Box Office America
2.00 The Forbidden Dance (1990 (RP13)
3.35 Lady Lovely Locks (G)
4.00 The Ghost Goes West (1935) (G)
5.30 Jaffas “Showtime”
6.00 Quick Change (1990) (GA)
7.30 TV Special: The Making of “Far and Away” (G)
8.00 Walking Through the Fire (1979) (GA)
9.40 Piano Lessons (GY)
10.00 Casualties of War (1989) (RP16)
11.55 True Believer (1989) (RP16)
1.39am Closedown

CTV
5.00pm Susan Sells (G)
5.30 First Report (G)
6.00 6 O’Clock Monday
7.00 DB Sport
7.30 CTV News
8.00 Jim Hopkins Live
8.30 The Irish RM (PGR)
9.30 CTV Sportshour
10.30 Susan Sells (Rpt, G)
11.00 Closedown

On Monday 14 September, TV One (now TVNZ 1) introduced a new afternoon lineup and moved its Film on One slot to just after 9am. This included Jeeves and Wooster and reruns of the British sitcom Brush Strokes, plus the Australian soaps E Street and Home and Away.

In fact, E Street was first shown in New Zealand on TV3 (now Three) in February 1991. Whereas E Street was shown in a twice weekly format in Australia, the show only screened once a week, particularly on Thursdays at 7.30pm, until it was replaced by The Ralston Group and the British sitcom Shelley due to poor ratings. TVNZ picked it up in 1992 and went to air Fridays at 7.30pm on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) until it was dropped and Channel 2 moved Beyond 2000 from 8.30pm to 7.30pm with Quantum Leap to follow at 8.30.

Also transferred from 3 was Home and Away, which had been a permanent fixture in the network’s schedule since its first appearance on New Zealand screens in December 1989. The last time Home and Away went to air on 3 was in the first week of January 1992.

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