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Wide-ranging documentary from 1966, which looks at the past and future of television in New Zealand. Political science lecturer Reg Harrison examines transmission challenges, local content, a second channel, private enterprise, independence from Government, transmission of live rugby, and the effects of TV’s rapid expansion on other pursuits and children. Includes interviews with privacy-keen Gordon Dryden and Rudall Hayward - plus various powers that once were, from TV and Government.
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That's my Dad! Reg Harrison. How can I get this to download - it keeps stopping, despite broadband, and locking up...
That's my Dad, Alan Morris-
what a guy!
dinah morris
I couldn't get past the accents. Wonderful. Was that Ian Fraser I heard in some of the voice-overs?
What has the world come to when women don't do their housework any more, because they're too busy watching television? Thank goodness for the score of parliamentary gentlemen who launched an investigation!
Fascinating stuff. Interesting to consider the time line of developments the show speculated on: Avalon eventually opened in 1975, the same year that a second channel (South Pacific Television) commenced. Applications to apply for a warrant to operate New Zealand’s third national television network opened in 1985. The Broadcasting Tribunal announced in 1987 that TV3 had won the warrant, and it began broadcasting 1989
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Brenda Leeuwenberg
Posted at 12.47PM - 01.02.2010
Wow, all these dads!
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