A wee timelapse of Avalon Studios in the Hutt Valley. GIF should change every five seconds or so.
Original aerial photography courtesy of retrolens.co.nz of which I like so much, I’ve plaster it all over the GIF.
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In March 1986 TVNZ announced plans to extend broadcasting hours on TV One (now TVNZ 1) starting in April. The new schedule would see TV One on air from 9am to midnight every day from Monday to Thursday, and continuously from 9am on Fridays until midnight on Sundays.
The initial plan for the overnight hours on Fridays and Saturdays included music videos, classic movies and reruns of comedies and dramas, leading up to children’s programming in the morning. However, these plans were scrapped due to staffing issues.
A dispute over rosters and extra pay led to technical and presentation directors, telecine and videotape operators and power supply staff at TVNZ’s Wellington studios (Avalon) refusing to work the first 24 hour transmission planned for the first weekend of April 1986. Negotiations throughout the week failed to resolve the dispute.
With the cancellation of 24 hour transmission, TV One reverted back to a nightly closedown with a 7am start on Saturdays and an 8am start on Sundays.
Within weeks TVNZ took all its music shows (e.g. Ready to Roll and Radio with Pictures) off air following a dispute with record companies, who were demanding payment for video clips that were becoming increasingly expensive to produce. TVNZ refused to pay to screen them on the grounds that this was ‘a form of sales promotion’.
Below are the bits and pieces regarding extended hours on TV One, courtesy of the NZ Listener.
Dedicated to @TelevisionAU @OnAir @medianz @NZBC @nztv @TV4.
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We had a similar dispute here between the record companies and the networks, with the record companies wanting networks to ‘pay for play’.
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As I’ve mentioned on Facebook previously, Telethon was a 24-hour fundraiser hosted by local celebrities and overseas guests. It was shown on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) at 7.30pm on the evening of Saturday 1 September 1990.
The theme for that year’s Telethon was “A Celebration of Age: Honouring Our Elders” and over $4.5 million went to the Celebration of Age 1990 Telethon Trust. The trust’s goal was to work with established agencies and individuals to help older people gain enhanced quality of life.
For national organiser Stephen McElrea and his staff, getting the event off the ground had been a massive task. As for the television side, well, covering the Commonwealth Games wasn’t a patch on this. Telethon was TVNZ’s biggest single production at the time.
Overseas guests included (in alphabetical order): Alan Dale (Neighbours), John Farnham, Anne Haddy (Neighbours), Jon Iles (The Bill), Kevin Kennedy (Coronation Street), Barbara Knox (Coronation Street), Ari Meyers (Kate & Allie), Bryan Mosley (Coronation Street), Thaao Penghlis (Mission: Impossible), Barbara Thorn (The Bill) and Ernie Wise (Morecambe & Wise).
Here’s an advertisement promoting that year’s Telethon (courtesy of the NZ Listener), featuring Paul Holmes, Judy Bailey and John Hawkesby as hosts.
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The Sky Network logo has to be their prototype logo.
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I am going through some old VHS tapes and I found the start of an April 1994 - One Network News Bulletin on tape. I will post it on YouTube soon. Here is some caps.
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@NaruTVMock Thanks for sending me your feedback. In fact, a bulletin of One Network News (as it was called in those days) at 6pm was originally broadcast on the evening of Friday 22 April 1994 (to be exact).
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@NaruTVMock Based on your recent post, here’s a full rundown of programmes that screened on TV One (now TVNZ 1) on Friday 22 April 1994, courtesy of the NZ Listener.
6.50am Te Karere (Rpt)
7.00 ITN World News
7.30 eTV - Spanish: Destinos (G)
8.00 ITN World News (Rpt)
8.30 eTV - Man and Music: Classical Vienna (G)
9.30 eTV - French in Action (Rpt, G)
10.00 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
10.55 Bergerac (Rpt, PGR)
Noon A Country Practice (G)
1.00 Benson (Rpt, G)
1.30 CBS Evening News
2.05 Sally Jessy Raphaël (PGR)
3.05 Knots Landing
4.10 Families (G)
4.40 Emmerdale (G)
5.10 Te Karere
5.20 Strike It Lucky (G)
5.50 One World of Sport: The Whitbread Report
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Wheel of Fortune (G)
7.30 Blue Heelers (PGR)
8.30 Palmers Garden Show (G)
9.40 The Brittas Empire (PGR)
10.15 PrimeTime
10.45 The South Bank Show: Woody Allen (AO)
11.55 Film International on One: My First Wife (1984) (AO)
2.00am Closedown
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Thanks @PaddyTePou! I appreciate the dating of the bulletin!
I also found the start of a Nightline bulletin that aired on TV3 (Three). It is around September 1997
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Just posted the montage for the One Network News bulletin from 1994
You can also watch the full raw recording here
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Hello, I’m 23 years old here and I want to have a deep look at what NZ TV’s like before I was born.
Anyone remember Television New Zealand’s inaugural ident when it was formed in 1980? I think it was used for a short time (probably a year).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du_Nn6rAYtc
When TVNZ was formed in 1980, Television One and South Pacific Television got renamed to “New Zealand One” and “New Zealand Two” respectively (yes, I found them off the TV listings on a newspaper dated 1980), but they were renamed back to “Television One” and “Television 2” respectively a year or two later.
This is the New Zealand Two ident from 1980.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fubcw7510
You get the idea of what the New Zealand One ident was like, it’s got the same music and the same logo design (except the colours of the ribbon were swapped, you know, red ribbon with “One” written in blue text).
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But the TV One/Two idents went their separate ways around late 1981
Hi Paddy, what’s your source on these. I’ve just deleted a word that is very offensive/dated and not used anymore.
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@OnAir I want to deeply apologise to you but, by accident, I almost forgot to reference the source. It was derived from “New Zealand: The First 25 Years”, a book by Robert Boyd-Bell (who has worked in television over the years), and I always give full credit to the sources for the use of their work.
The previous post has been deleted and, once again, I have apologised.
Last year, New Zealand television celebrated its 60th anniversary. And on this day (1 June) 60 years ago, television came to Christchurch and CHTV3 was born.
Thank you.
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Cheers @PaddyTePou , I wasn’t asking you to delete the post - it was the term ‘negro’ which is dated, which I removed from your post as it’s a term no longer used.
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@OnAir Once again, thanks very much.
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Did TVNZ do anything nice for its 60th last year? I recall it had quite a lavish website for its 50th but did it acknowledge its 60th? If it was anything like Australian TV’s 60th, it probably all but ignored it!
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Hrm. TVNZ didn’t produce a 60th anniversary special last year because of Covid-19, but NZ On Screen had produced a 90 second promo that celebrated 60 years of television in New Zealand.
The NZ On Screen team brought together 60 TV moments from across the decades. You can find out more by clicking their link below.
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“the money or the bag”? Was that NZ’s take on “the money or the box” from Pick A Box (1948-71) and Superquiz (1981, 1989)?
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@TelevisionAU The answer, in fact, is yes.
‘The money or the bag’ was one of the catchphrases from “It’s in the Bag”, one of the longest running game shows in New Zealand.
“It’s in the Bag” started out as a radio show in 1954 with Selwyn Toogood as host and director. In 1973 a television version of the show was developed which was also hosted by Toogood until he retired in 1986. At the same time as Toogood’s retirement, John Hawkesby took over as host. During the Toogood/Hawkesby era, the show featured successive hostesses Heather Eggleton (now Heather Crofskey), Tineke Bouchier (now Tineke Stephenson), Sue Scott and Hilary Timmins.
Produced in-house by the NZBC and, later, TVNZ, “It’s in the Bag” was discontinued in 1990 but brought back in 1992 under Robin Scholes of independent production house Communicado, with Nick Tansley as host and Suzy Aiken (now Suzy Clarkson) as hostess.
Unlike other game shows, like “Pick a Box” and “Superquiz” from Australia, instead of being filmed in a single studio “It’s in the Bag” went out on the road to a different town each week and the set was assembled into a local community town hall.
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