New Zealand Election 2020 - Media coverage

The 2020 New Zealand general election will be held on Saturday 17 October 2020.

Discuss media coverage here.

First major leaders debate is Tuesday night.

In Australia, ABC News will be have a bulletin at 10pm. It will be a busy night as it coincides with the ACT election.

10:00pm ABC News: ACT and NZ Votes
The latest from ABC News following today’s top stories and live coverage of events as they unfold.
Includes coverage of the ACT and NZ election results as we hear from the winners and losers and
look at what the results mean.

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I’m over it already. Wake me up when October ends.

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TVNZ 1 Q&A Cannabis Referendum Debate
Caps











Watch

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Newshub Nation| Battleground Debate
Hosted on location in the Bay of Islands













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The first leaders’ debate for the 2020 NZ general election kicks off tonight at 7:00pm on TVNZ 1 as Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins go head to head.

This debate will be moderated by John Campbell along side political reporter Jessica Mutch-Mckay.

LIVE STREAM:

TVNZ 1 (NZ Only): https://www.tvnz.co.nz/livetv/tvnz-1

YouTube (Overseas viewers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96WMzTofHyA

The debate will also stream on Facebook, Twitter and the 1News website.

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New 1News Colmar Brunton Poll in lead-up to the 1st leaders’ debate:


Preferred Prime Minister:

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First, look at TVNZ Debate Studio



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Looks like the Lotto set to me… :thinking:

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Yeah, we think it is, discussed it further on the 1 News Thread.

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Sounds like they’re using the same music.

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Just heard the 2017 TVNZ election theme during the ‘‘Coming Up’’ segment.
Looks like no changes for this year’s theme.

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TVNZ 2020 Debate studio during the 2nd ‘‘Coming Up’’ segment.

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Good

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Debate graphic uploaded to twitter.

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2020 TVNZ Debate sutdio during the final ‘‘Coming Up’’ segment. Going to be interesting to see during the coverage.



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Opener




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Party vote graphic

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