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Robert Boyd-Bell has made many contributions to the development of TV news reporting in New Zealand. He began in the mid 1960s as a reporter with the fledgling NZ Broadcasting Corporation news service, and later headed TV One's northern newsroom. Boyd-Bell has also worked as a documentary producer, was key in setting up educational television services eTV and The Knowledge Breakfast, and has been a keen advocate for public service broadcasting.
In this ScreenTalk interview, Boyd-Bell talks about:
- Why the NZ Broadcasting Corporation had to set up its own news service
- The slow journey international news took to get on air, in the days before a national network
- Bringing changes to the newsroom
- That infamous Tonight interview with Sir Robert Muldoon
- Establishing educational television service eTV
- How The Knowledge Breakfast became the first online TV show in New Zealand
- How family dynamics proved a challenge making Billy T: Te Movie
- How his fascination with Kiri Te Kanawa led to documentary My Breathing is Singing
- Why New Zealand needs a non-commercial TV service
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Copyright
This video was first uploaded on 27 July 2014, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.
