Television New Zealand

This article is about the New Zealand television broadcaster. For New Zealand television in general, see Television in New Zealand.
Television New Zealand, Limited
Type Broadcast television
Country New Zealand
Availability Nationally (New Zealand) and some Pacific Island nations such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands
Founded 1980; 36 years ago
Slogan Our Nation, Our Voice
TV stations
Owner Government of New Zealand
Key people
 Kevin Kenrick (CEO)
Former TV stations
Official website
 TVNZ.co.nz

Television New Zealand, Limited (Māori: Te Reo Tātaki o Aotearoa), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a government-owned national broadcaster broadcasting in New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region. Although the network identifies as a national, part-public broadcaster, it is fully commercially funded, and was competition free until November 1989 when private channel TV3 was launched. This began the battle for ratings with the only real rival MediaWorks New Zealand, which currently operates channels TV3, Four, and The Edge TV. However, the company still maintains a number of transmission advantages due to their long standing relationship with the state-owned sister company Kordia.

TVNZ operates playout services from its Auckland studio via Kordia's fibre and microwave network for TV One, TV2 and TVNZ Kidzone with new media video services via the US owned Brightcove which is streamed on the US owned Akamai RTMP/HLS DNS based caching network. Its former channels include TVNZ Heartland (closed 31 May 2015), TVNZ U (closed August 2013), TVNZ 7 (closed June 2012), TVNZ 6 (closed 2011), and TVNZ Sport Extra (closed 2009, but a re-launch is possible).

The TVNZ board is appointed by Minister of Broadcasting Amy Adams. Members are: the chairman Sir John Anderson KBE (Wellington), Anne Blackburn (Auckland), Bryan Gould CNZM (Opotiki), Sir John Goulter, KNZM, JP (Paihia), June McCabe (Auckland) and Joan Withers (Auckland).[1][2]

Approximately 90% of TVNZ's revenue is from commercial activity (such as advertising and merchandising).[3] The remainder of its funding comes from government funding agencies.

History

Formation

TVNZ was created in 1980, through the merger of Television One and TV2 (formerly South Pacific Television). Until 1988 it was paired with Radio New Zealand as the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand (BCNZ).

The broadcaster was initially based in Television One's former headquarters at the Avalon television centre in Lower Hutt, however over the course of the 1980s, operations were gradually moved to Auckland. In 1989, TVNZ moved to a new television centre in central Auckland.

Broadcasting in New Zealand was deregulated in 1989.

Role as public broadcaster

The Labour-led government under Helen Clark from 1999 to 2008 pursued a programme of public broadcasting reforms. New Zealand's wide-ranging adoption of neoliberal policies in the mid-1980s and 1990s had large sections of the state sector privatised. As a state owned enterprise, TVNZ enjoyed enormous commercial success (sustaining two-thirds of the overall audience share) and paid the Crown substantial dividends (over $250 million between 1989 and 1999). However, the commercial success had been achieved through an unabashed pursuit of ratings through populist and tabloid content, and prior to the 1999 election the National-led government was evidently positioning TVNZ for privatisation Labour-led administrations since 1999 explicitly recognised the market failures of a wholly commercial broadcasting sector (e.g. saturation-level advertising, low levels of local content, heavy reliance on cheap imports and a disregard for quality genres and in-depth news and current affairs) and re-emphasised television's cultural and democratic functions in their policy thinking.

The Clark government's highest profile broadcasting reform to date was the restructuring of TVNZ as a Crown Entity in 2003. This introduced a dual remit whereby the broadcaster had to maintain its commercial performance (continuing dividend payments to the Crown) while simultaneously implementing a new public service Charter.

The TVNZ Charter would require the negotiation and reconciliation of potentially contradictory commercial and public service imperatives. The final version of the TVNZ Charter included a range of public service objectives and expectations.

However, this dual remit precluded any transformation of TVNZ into fully-fledged public service broadcaster, and TVNZ's efforts to balance its pursuit of commercial performance and Charter objectives were soon being criticised. Despite some investment in local content, including new documentaries and discussion programmes, the content on TV One and TV2 remained similar to the pre-charter schedules, with a continuing high proportion of light entertainment and reality-TV shows.

TVNZ continues to pay dividends to the Crown. However, from 2006 until 2009 TVNZ received $15.11 million each year from Government to assist it with fulfilling Charter obligations. There was much debate about the initial secrecy surrounding funding allocations and the programmes supported. The allocation of $5 million toward coverage of the 2008 Olympics, the rights for which are secured by a competitive tender between broadcasters, was possibly the most controversial. In 2009 the Government gave control of that funding to funding agency NZ On Air. NZ On Air announced the creation of the contestable "Platinum Fund" in April 2009, setting aside the $15.11 million for high quality drama, documentary and other programme types. Following the election of a National Party-led government under John Key in 2008, the Charter was abolished in favour of a return to the 1990s model of a full commercial broadcaster.

There is much debate on the future of TVNZ, which focuses on the nature of public service broadcasting and its commercial role. An example was in a memo called A More Public Broadcaster written by outgoing Chief Executive Ian Fraser to the board of TVNZ in October 2005, was obtained and released by Green MP Sue Kedgley. The memo outlined three options.

These were:

On 15 February 2006, a group of 31 prominent New Zealanders signed an open letter, published as a full-page newspaper advertisement, calling for better quality programmes and less advertising on TVNZ. These included mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, and former Governors-General Sir Michael Hardie Boys and Dame Catherine Tizard. However, they were accused of being out of touch and nostalgic for local programmes from the 1970s and 1980s, when New Zealand had only one or two TV channels.

While the Broadcasting Minister, Steve Maharey ruled out turning TVNZ into an entirely non-commercial broadcaster, on 25 February, he stated that the Labour Government was "pretty much settled" on the introduction of two new free-to-air, non-commercial channels available via digital television. One channel could show high-end international documentaries, re-runs of One News and minority programmes with a high local content, and another, primarily for children, screening serious drama and arts at night. These channels would eventually become known as TVNZ 7 and TVNZ 6 respectively.

Digital era

In early 2006, TVNZ purchased expensive Harmonic branded H.262 encoding equipment for the upcoming Freeview DTH service, which is an Electra 1000 on-the-fly video re-encoder.[4]

On 14 November 2006, TVNZ announced plans to launch two commercial-free digital channels. The first, with the working title TVNZ News 24, would feature news, sport and special interest content, and be launched in late 2007. This would be followed by a channel featuring children's, families', arts and documentary programming, with the working title of TVNZ Home, in early 2008. While 80 per cent of the programming would be local content, 70 per cent of this would consist of repeats from TVNZ's existing channels or its archive.

In April 2008, TVNZ made another purchase of even more expensive Harmonic branded H.264 encoding equipment for the upcoming Freeview HD DTT service, which are the Electra 7000 for HD and Electra 5400 for SD on-the-fly video re-encoders.[4]

The proposal was criticised by TV3, which accused the Government of "bailing out" TVNZ and argued that the money would be better spent on new programming Although Sue Kedgely welcomed the decision to make the channels (including children's programming) commercial-free, she accused the Government of tight-fistedness.

In late 2011, TVNZ and its pay-TV rival Sky Network Television announced the joint venture Igloo, which is to provide a low-cost pay-TV service for households not currently covered by Freeview or SKY.

In mid 2013, TVNZ changed its on-screen branding to a more flat, modern look.[5]

TVNZ went fully digital in December 2013, with the accompanying shutdown of the analogue transmitters to free up spectrum for telecommunications use.[6]

Conflicts

In addition to debates over whether TVNZ should be a public broadcaster or a commercial one, there have been other controversies.

For 3 weeks in January–February 1999, John Hawkesby became a weekday newsreader for One News, replacing Richard Long (who moved to presenting weekend bulletins alongside Liz Gunn). The change was short-lived, and Hawkesby received a $5.2m payout.

In 2000, the Broadcasting Standards Authority ruled against TVNZ over inaccuracies in a news story about the drug Lyprinol, which was erroneously touted as a cure for cancer.[7]

In 2004 current affairs veteran of 15 years Paul Holmes sparked a public outcry after he referred to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan as a "cheeky darkie" on his radio show on Newstalk ZB and subsequently chose not to renew his contract at TVNZ.

Also in 2004 there was the public outcry over newsreader Judy Bailey's $800,000 salary package, negotiated with head of news and current affairs at TVNZ Bill Ralston, she finished her final 12-month contract the following year after 34 years working at the broadcaster.

In late 2010, TVNZ garnered criticism over various comments made by Breakfast host Paul Henry. Henry had referred to Delhi Commonwealth Games organiser Sheila Dikshit as "the dip shit woman" and "Dick Shit", going on to state that "it's so appropriate, because she's Indian, so she'd be dick-in-shit wouldn't she, do you know what I mean? Walking along the street... she's just so funny, isn't she?"[8] Henry also questioned whether the Governor-General of New Zealand Anand Satyanand was "even a New Zealander", going on to ask, "Are you going to choose a New Zealander who looks and sounds like a New Zealander this time ... are we going to go for someone who is more like a New Zealander this time?"[9][10] Following widespread public complaints and official criticism, Henry was suspended from TVNZ for 2 weeks without pay, eventually resigning from the broadcaster. Henry's resignation polarised the New Zealand public, with supporters claiming he was a victim of political correctness, and critics accusing him of pandering to the lowest common denominator.[11]

Charters

For 3 years in the early 2000s, much like its radio counterpart Radio New Zealand and ABC TV in Australia, TVNZ became a fully public service network. This was abolished under new TVNZ management in 2005. In 2008 New Zealand Labour Party-led government announced to TVNZ stuff they must strive to become "more public-service" like. TVNZ obeyed by launching two commercial free channels; TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7. By 2011 New Zealand prime minister John Key announced the closure of these channels. 6 in 2011, and 7 in mid-2012, with much of their content put into TVNZ Heartland and TVNZ Kidzone24 which are only available behind a SKY TV paywall.[12] Prior to the 21st century TVNZ was seen as a public service, as it was originally designed to be. TVNZ still holds public service responsibilities – albeit much diminished – broadcasting such shows, mainly on TV One, in the late hours of the night, and on Sunday mornings. New Zealanders have campaigned for a stronger public service system, like that of the one in the United Kingdom, where all networks are permitted to be public service.

TVNZ headquarters in Auckland.

Output contracts

Exclusive contract with Disney Media Distribution for HD content also by DreamWorks Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures.

Exclusive contracts with ABC News, TimeWarner's CNN, BBC News and Nine News for international news coverage.

Non-exclusive contract with Sony Pictures Entertainment for some existing content by Sony Pictures.

First option contract with Warner Bros. for HD content also by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 'New Line Cinema and 'Roadshow Entertainment.

Previously held non-exclusive contracts with Lionsgate and Paramount Pictures.

Channels

TV One

TV One has a broad range of programming including One News, Current Affairs, the Commonwealth Games[13] and One Sport, with overnight news coverage provided by BBC World News.

The channel, once the traditional home of television sport, has since lost the rights to most of the world's main sporting events, including the Olympics, and All Blacks test matches to pay television competitor Sky. TV One also broadcasts rural focused programmes such as Country Calendar and Rural Delivery, Maori community presentations such as Waka Huia, Marae Investigates and Te Karere, a daily Te Reo news bulletin, and shows for minorities, such as Attitude, Neighbourhood, A Taste of Home and Tagata Pasifika. Elsewhere TV One specialises in food shows, including the locally produced Masterchef, and international shows, mostly from the BBC and Network Ten Australia.

TV2

Main article: TV2 (New Zealand)

TV2 targets a younger audience than TV One. TV2's line up consists of dramas, sitcoms, and reality shows, most of which are produced in New Zealand or imported from the United States.

Locally produced content includes Shortland Street, Motorway Patrol and What Now?, and international shows (which are predominantly American) include Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives and Gossip Girl. TV2 is sold by TVNZ as the "home of entertainment". It is marketed as the first to air local drama and kids programmes.

Timeshift channels

TVNZ broadcasts hour-delayed timeshift channels of its two main channels. TV One Plus 1 for TV One was launched on 1 July 2012, replacing TVNZ 7. TV2 +1 for TV2 launched on 1 September 2013, replacing TVNZ U.

TVNZ Kidzone

Main article: TVNZ Kidzone

TVNZ Kidzone, is a channel exclusively available on SKY Network Television. It replaced the child and youth-focused TVNZ 6 in 2011.

Duke

Main article: Duke (TV)

Duke is channel that will launch on Freeview channel 13 and channel 23 Sky on 20 March 2016. It broadcasts between the hours of 6pm and midnight and occasionally screens live sport events outside of these hours. It screens programming targeted at a male audience such as Two and a Half Men, Family Guy, GFW Amped, The Late Late Show with James Corden and Agent X.

Other services

Internationally, TVNZ has helped provide television services in Pacific Island nations such as the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands. While TVNZ provides much of the programming, scheduling and continuity are done locally.

Because of its history TVNZ has inherited and developed its own services in the production and broadcasting services area. These include The New Zealand Television Archive, production facilities, television school.

TVNZ also operated the website nzoom.com for a number of years. The site was an internet portal with news purchased from Radio New Zealand its own content and also content produced by its own staff. It was rebranded in 2004 as tvnz.co.nz.

TVNZ OnDemand

Main article: TVNZ OnDemand

TVNZ OnDemand is Television New Zealand's online television viewing and downloading website, launched in March 2007. The content on this site uses geotargeting for New Zealand only connections via a US-based Brightcove media company using the Akamai RTMP network, with some local content being made available to an international audience via their YouTube channel. At the end of 2012, the contract with Brightcove was expanded to include streaming to iOS devices via the Akamai HLS network.[14]

TVNZ have a large variety of both New Zealand and international shows on TVNZ OnDemand, however they are unavailable to watch three months after airing, and the service is not suited for dialup use.

Teletext

Main article: TVNZ Teletext

TVNZ began a teletext service in 1984 originally with the intention to help New Zealand's deaf community get improved access to news and information. A captioning service was available for certain television shows and could be accessed by browsing to page 801. The TVNZ Teletext service could be received on all TVNZ channels and the TVNZ service could be received on TV3 including captioning of some TV3 shows. Trackside also operated a Teletext service called TAB Text which only displayed the racing pages of Teletext.

A Teletext capable television was usually required to receive Teletext. With the arrival of digital television services such as Freeview, Teletext could be received through a Freeview decoder. In this case captions were normally accessed by subtitle button on a Freeview remote.

In December 2012 TVNZ announced the closure of their Teletext service from 3 April 2013. The captioning service will however continue to be available. TVNZ cited the reasons for the closure due to a decline in use particularly since most services are now available from the TVNZ website or other websites. [15]

TiVo

On 26 March 2009 TVNZ announced that it had acquired a 33% stake in Hybrid Television Services (67% owned by Australia's Seven Media Group). Hybrid TV is the exclusive licensee of TiVo products in Australia and New Zealand. On the same day it was announced that TiVo would be arriving in New Zealand by Christmas 2009 (Hybrid launched it in Australia in July 2008).[16]

Discontinued services

Between 1995 and 1997, TVNZ operated a network of regional TV stations under the 'Horizon Pacific' name and through a subsidiary called Horizon Pacific Television. Its broadcast content included BBC World and NZ documentary programming. The network consisted of newly formed stations ATV in Auckland, Coast to Coast in Hamilton, Capital Television in Wellington and Southern Television in Dunedin. TVNZ subsequently also purchased CTV, based in Christchurch. CTV continues to broadcast, but is no longer owned by TVNZ.

Horizon Pacific was replaced by a local 'free to air' version of the music video channel MTV, based on MTV's UK service and local programming, although the channel was dropped in 1998. Prior to MTV's demise, TVNZ had bought the channel's competitor, Max TV.[17]

TVNZ also operated a satellite services division organising and downlink facilities and across the globe, but this service was wound down in 2005.

TVNZ operated TVNZ 6 from 2007 to 2011. TVNZ 6 was a digital-only, commercial-free television channel. It was available in 60.3% of New Zealand homes on the Freeview and SKY Television Digital platforms. TVNZ 6 was on air daily from 6 am to midnight.

TVNZ 7, launched in March 2008, was a commercial-free news and information channel. It was available via the Freeview and SKY platforms. The New Zealand Government, under Prime Minister John Key and Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman decided to discontinue funding for TVNZ 7. The final broadcast ended at midnight on 30 June 2012. TVNZ 7 was replaced with time shift channel TVOne plus 1.

TVNZ launched U in March 2011. U was a 24-hour youth orientated channel available via both Freeview and SKY. TVNZ U was launched to fill the gap when TVNZ6 closed in 2011. TVNZ U specialised in musical tastes, reality, gaming, fashion and informative youth orientated documentaries.

On 29 July 2013, TVNZ announced that the channel would be closed on 31 August 2013 and be replaced by a timeshifted version of TV2 with an hour delay as was done for TV one when TVNZ 7 came to an end.

TVNZ Heartland was a pay-TV channel that launched on the SKY Television platform on 1 June 2010. It was TVNZ's first channel available exclusively on a pay-TV platform and featured 100% New Zealand made programming, mostly sourced from the TVNZ archives. The channel closed in May 2015.

Transmission network

High Definition

TVNZ has offered HD broadcasts since July/August 2008, when the 2008 Summer Olympics were broadcast in High Definition. The service is offered on the Freeview|HD platform, using DVB-T transmission. Only TV One and TV2 are offered in HD, and the majority of programming is still up-converted from Standard Definition. From 1 July 2009 the HD versions of TV One and TV2 became available to Sky TV subscribers who have the MySky HDi decoders. Content on the HD versions of TV One and 2 are the same as the Standard Definition versions however when watching certain shows that broadcast in High Definition the HD logo is displayed next to the channel logo, this logo is not seen when watching the same show on the Standard Definition versions of TV1 and 2.

TVNZ has adopted 1080i as their HD broadcast format.

Kordia, formerly BCL, TVNZ's transmission partner

TVNZ's transmission network is operated by Kordia, formerly a subsidiary of TVNZ known as Broadcast Communications Limited until 2006. The company owns and operates the terrestrial transmission network used for broadcast of all major terrestrial television networks in New Zealand, including TV3 and Prime Television – TVNZ's major competitors, along with other voice and data telecommunications services.

Geographic history

TVNZ's primary television channel TV One is provided as four distinct terrestrial feeds, localising to viewers within and around the Auckland, Waikato, Wellington and Christchurch regions. Localised satellite feeds were made available in 2010 to channel-locked SD receivers. Localised content currently only consists of targeted regional advertising spots toward the end of a commercial break. Localised regional news programming was discontinued in the late 1980s and all localised versions for TV2 were discontinued in the early 2000s in favour of only national advertising. TVNZ's predecessor, NZBC started as distinct stations in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Nationwide networked services were first introduced in July 1969 to broadcast the Apollo 11 landing footage, flown in specially from Australia, from Wellington simultaneously across all stations. However, the network was still incomplete, and in some places, outside broadcast vans were strategically placed to temporarily complete missing links. The network was fully completed in November that year. TVNZ also used to run telethons up until 1990 at locations around the country, viewers would be shown full coverage of the Telethon nearest their location. Originally when TVNZ began broadcasting TV One and TV2 on Sky Digital at the end of 2001 viewers would see only nationwide or Auckland advertisements when watching these channels through the Sky Digital service. In 2004 this was expanded to show one of three feeds for regional advertising spots targeting Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch with viewers outside of these regions seeing advertisements from the closest region. This was again dropped in March 2007 with a return to only nationwide advertising on TVNZ channels on Sky Digital before being reintroduced through the Freeview SD service. Regional advertising spots are only shown on TV One on both Digital and Analogue platforms however those that receive the HD version of TV One through their HD receiver will only see Auckland advertisements. Standard DVB satellite receivers will scan in all versions to be selected by the viewer.

Wellington-based Avalon Studios, long a nucleus of TV production in New Zealand, was finally put up for sale by TVNZ in 2011, with most of its remaining shows relocating to Auckland, completing a trend of northward drift by the broadcaster.[18][19] TV production was spread evenly around the country in the 1970s, but according to Wellington-based TV personalities, the drift to Auckland began in 1980 with the formation of TVNZ, and the subsequent relocation of the TV One newsroom and headquarters to Auckland under then Prime Minister Rob Muldoon.[20]

In Christchurch the original TVNZ studios were located at Gloucester Street in the NZBC owned building used to broadcast 3YA and 3ZB. A 14-storey building was also built on Worcester Street as studios for various TVNZ shows, notable shows to be filmed here included What Now, and The Son of a Gunn Show. In 1998 TVNZ closed their Christchurch studios. What Now was moved north for a few years however moved back to Christchurch to be filmed at the privately owned Whitebait studios. Prior to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake on 22 February the Worcester Street building continued to house Christchurch radio stations previously owned by Radio New Zealand and now owned by The Radio Network, stations included Newstalk ZB, Classic Hits 97.7 and 91ZM. The Gloucester Street building remained as Christchurch based newsroom for TVNZ until the building was badly damaged in the quake, and has since been demolished. The Worcester Street building was demolished on 5 August 2012 by implosion.[21]

The Dunedin studios were used to film many iconic shows, such as Play School, University Challenge, Beauty and the Beast, and Spot On. When TVNZ scaled back its Dunedin studios in 1989, they were purchased by Ian Taylor, the founder of Animation Research and Taylormade Media.[22]

DVB-S availability

TV One, TV2 and the hour delayed versions are available "in the clear" over DVB-S on Optus D1 as standard definition only. A SKY set-top box is not required, any satellite set-top box or tuner will work. However the high definition versions on DVB-S2 are scrambled and require a Sky Television H.264 set-top box such as MySky, which costs the price of a basic subscription plus addition MySky rental fee.

Civil Defence

Along with TV3, TVNZ's functions are subject to lifeline utility requirements under NZ civil defence legislation.[23] In practice, this status as a lifeline utility requires TVNZ to be able to function at least to a reduced level after an emergency, and to provide advice to civil defence authorities when requested.

H.222 Broadcasting transports

Free-to-air SD Satellite Services on transport 6 via the Sky New Zealand DVB network
Service Description NDS LCN DVB name Streams
1032 TVNZ second channel 2 TV 2 1005 (H.262@4Mbit/s – 720x576ix25), 1105 (MP2@256kbit/s – 48000x2), 1115 (MP2@160kbit/s – 48000x2), 1905 (teletext subtitle)
EPG Sky encoded guide N/A N/A 18 (DVB EIT)
DVB encrypted HD Satellite Service on transport 8 via the Sky New Zealand DVB network
Service Description NDS LCN DVB name Streams
1171 TVNZ first channel for Auckland 1 TV ONE 1002 (H.264@10Mbit/s – 1920x1080ix25), 1102 (AC-3@384kbit/s – 48000x6), 1112 (MP2@160kbit/s – 48000x2), 1902 (teletext subtitle)
1172 TVNZ second channel 2 TV 2 1004 (H.264@8Mbit/s – 1920x1080ix25), 1104 (AC-3@384kbit/s – 48000x6), 1114 (MP2@160kbit/s – 48000x2), 1904 (teletext subtitle)
EPG Sky encoded guide N/A N/A 18 (DVB EIT)
Free-to-air SD Satellite Services on transport 22 via the TVNZ Digital DVB network
Service Description NorDig LCN DVB name Streams
1035 TVNZ first channel for Auckland 1 TV ONE 515 (H.262@2Mbit/s – 720x576ix25), 653 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 663 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 179 (teletext subtitle)
1036 TVNZ second channel 2 TV 2 516 (H.262@2Mbit/s – 720x576ix25), 654 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 664 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 180 (teletext subtitle)
1037 TVNZ first channel for Auckland hour delayed 6 TV ONE plus 1 518 (H.262@2Mbit/s – 720x576ix25), 656 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 666 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 582 (teletext subtitle)
1038 TVNZ second channel hour delay 7 TV2+1 512 (H.262@2Mbit/s – 720x576ix25), 650 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 666 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 181 (teletext subtitle)
1908 TVNZ first channel for Waikato/BOP 1 TV ONE 519 (H.262@2Mbit/s – 720x576ix25), 657 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 663 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 179 (teletext subtitle)
1909 TVNZ first channel for lower north 513 (H.262@2Mbit/s – 720x576ix25), 651 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 663 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 179 (teletext subtitle)
1910 TVNZ first channel for south island 517 (H.262@2Mbit/s – 720x576ix25), 655 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 663 (MP2@192kbit/s – 48000x2), 179 (teletext subtitle)
EPG TVNZ encoded guide N/A N/A 18 (DVB EIT), 1001 (MHEG DSM-CC)
Terrestrial Services on transports 25 to 28 via the Kordia DVB network
Service Description NorDig LCN DVB name Streams
1200 TVNZ regional first channel 1 TV ONE 250 (H.264@8Mbit/s – 1920x1080ix25), 300 (HE-AAC-LOAS@64kbit/s – 48000x2), 305 (HE-AAC-LOAS@64kbit/s – 48000x2), 401 (AC-3@384kbit/s – 48000x6), 1020 (RLE interlaced 8 colour 720x34x4 rendered teletext)
1201 TVNZ second channel 2 TV2 251 (H.264@8Mbit/s – 1920x1080ix25), 301 (HE-AAC-LOAS@64kbit/s – 48000x2), 306 (HE-AAC-LOAS@64kbit/s – 48000x2), 402 (AC-3@384kbit/s – 48000x6), 1025 (RLE interlaced 8 colour 720x34x4 rendered teletext)
1206 TVNZ first channel for Auckland hour delayed 6 TV ONE plus 1 252 (H.264@3Mbit/s – 720x576ix25), 302 (HE-AAC-LOAS@64kbit/s – 48000x2), 308 (HE-AAC-LOAS@64kbit/s – 48000x2), 1030 (RLE interlaced 8 colour 720x34x4rendered teletext)
1207 TVNZ second channel hour delayed 7 TV2+1 253 (H.264@3Mbit/s – 720x576ix25), 303 (HE-AAC-LOAS@64kbit/s – 48000x2), 307 (HE-AAC-LOAS@64kbit/s – 48000x2), 1035 (RLE interlaced 8 colour 720x34x4rendered teletext)
EPG TVNZ encoded guide N/A N/A 18 (DVB EIT), 1002 (MHEG DSM-CC)

Details prior to December 2013 digital switchover

Technical notes

New Zealand uses PAL B (7 MHz channel spacing) on VHF, and PAL G (8 MHz channel spacing) on UHF.

NICAM stereo

New Zealand has a near nationwide implementation of NICAM stereo sound for TV One and TV2. NICAM stereo was first made available on TV2 in the Auckland region in 1989, also during the early 1990s Simulated Stereo was available in Wellington on TV2. NICAM stereo was not rolled out to the rest of the country or onto TV One until 1996 and for some regions (such as Southland) NICAM was not available until 2001. Rival networks TV3 has offered NICAM stereo in all available regions since its launch in 1989 this is also the case with Prime TV. Stereo sound is available on all TVNZ channels if accessed through Sky Digital or Freeview.

Competitors

TVNZ's major competitors in the television market are

New Zealand shows

See also

General topic:

TVNZ specific:

References

  1. ↑ TVNZ Board, TVNZ website
  2. ↑ New Zealand Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet - Minister of Broadcasting. Retrieved January 21, 2016.
  3. ↑ , IAB New Zealand website
  4. 1 2 "Television New Zealand Launches New Freeview HD and SD Digital Terrestrial Service with Harmonic's Video Solutions". Harmonic Inc. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Logos". TVNZ Planit Toolbox. TVNZ. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "Going Digital – Home". Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Ministry of Health and Television New Zealand Ltd – 2000-030, 2000–031". Broadcasting Standards Authority. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "Dikshit giggles: New Henry drama". Stuff. 6 October 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
  9. ↑ "TVNZ's Paul Henry slammed over Governor-General remarks". The Spy Report (Media Spy). 4 October 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  10. ↑ "Henry causes a stir – again". Stuff. 4 October 2010. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  11. ↑ Vass, Beck (15 January 2011). "Henry foes, fans evenly split". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
  12. ↑ "Public Disservice Broadcasting: The shameful demise of TVNZ7". Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  13. ↑ "TVNZ gets rights to 2018 Commonwealth Games". Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  14. ↑ "TVNZ Partners with Brightcove for New onDemand Catch-up TV App – Brightcove". Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  15. ↑ "Teletext service to end next year". 13 December 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  16. ↑ "TVNZ brings TiVo to the nation". One News. 26 March 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
  17. ↑ Cardno, James. "History never repeats" New Zealand Listener. 27 September – 3 October 2003 Vol 190 No 3307
  18. ↑ "TVNZ moving Good Morning, selling Avalon studio". The Dominion Post. 5 April 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  19. ↑ Tom Hunt and Paul Easton (11 April 2011). "The rise and fall of Avalon". The Dominion Post. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  20. ↑ Drinnan, John (17 December 2010). "Mallard sees red over Avalon Studios". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  21. ↑ "Christchurch building to be imploded". Stuff. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
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