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Here is the News - The End of the NZ Broadcasting Corporation

1992 Television
  • Documentary
  • NZ History

In 1975 the single television channel system run by the NZ Broadcasting Corporation ceased to exist. In April, Television One officially launched; in July a new second channel, later known as South Pacific Television, followed suit. Television One began from a custom-made production facility in Lower Hutt. Writer Robert Boyd-Bell describes the phones "going crazy with complaints". In this excerpt from a 1991 documentary on 30 years of Kiwi TV journalism, the almost complete Avalon studio makes its debut and Television One newsreader Dougal Stevenson announces a new chapter in TV history.

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