Fiktiv New Zealand - TVNZ

Television New Zealand is a state-owned television network that is broadcast throughout New Zealand and parts of the Pacific region. Although the network identifies as a national, part-public broadcaster, it is fully commercially funded.

TVNZ was competition free until November 1989 when private channel TV3 (now Three) was launched. This began the battle for ratings with the only real rival MediaWorks New Zealand.

TVNZ operates playout services from its Auckland studio via Kordia's fibre and microwave network for TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2, TVNZ Duke, TVNZ Heartland, TVNZ Kidzone, TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7, with new media video services via the American-owned Brightcove which is streamed on the Akamai RTMP/HLS DNS based caching network.

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

TVNZ was created in February 1980, through the merger of Television One and South Pacific Television (which was renamed TV2). Until January 1989, it was paired with Radio New Zealand as the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand (BCNZ).

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TVNZ 1 is the first national television channel owned and operated by the state-owned broadcaster Television New Zealand (TVNZ). It was the first major television broadcaster in New Zealand, starting out from 1960 onwards as independent government operated facilities in the four main centres of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, and eventually began sharing programming between them all in real time in 1969, becoming NZBC TV (although the individual facilities retained their call signs into the 1970s). The collective group was renamed Television One (TV ONE) in 1975 upon the break-up of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, and became a part of TVNZ in 1980 when Television One and South Pacific Television (now sister channel TVNZ 2) merged. The channel assumed its current name in October 2016.

The channel is broadcast on the government owned Kordia terrestrial network as well as on one of the two Kordia satellite transponders, which is included in channel packages on the Freeview and Sky platforms. It is estimated that 98.6% of New Zealand households with a television have access to TVNZ 1. Over 50% of the channel's programming is local content.

TVNZ 1 is both a public broadcaster and a commercial broadcaster. Central to TVNZ 1 is news and current affairs, which is produced under the banner 1 News. Also, it broadcasts sports programming under the banner 1 Sport. Other programming consists of mainly drama, general entertainment and documentaries, both locally and internationally (especially British) produced.

1 News is the news division of New Zealand television network TVNZ. The service is broadcast live from TVNZ Centre in Auckland. The flagship news bulletin is the nightly 6 pm news hour, but 1 News also has midday and late night news bulletins, as well as current affairs shows such as Breakfast and Close Up. 1 News uses the international news sources of Nine News, ABC News (United States), ABC News (Australia), BBC News and CNN.

Television news in New Zealand started in 1960 with the introduction of television. These bulletins were broadcast from New Zealand's four main cities (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin) operating independently of each other due to technical constraints. The Wahine disaster in April 1968 highlighted the need for a nationwide news network; footage shot in Wellington could not be broadcast in other centres around the country at the same time, and the extra tropical cyclone which contributed to the disaster also grounded air traffic preventing the film being flown to other centres.

In October 1969 the nationwide TV network was completed. The first network news broadcast was live on 3 November 1969 at 7:35 pm, read by Dougal Stevenson. This bulletin was possible due to microwave links being established between the four main centres; the programme was called NZBC Network News.

1 News at Six is 1 News' flagship hour-long bulletin, and airs nightly at 6 pm and is fronted by Simon Dallow and Wendy Petrie on weekdays and Melissa Stokes on the weekend. Sport is presented by Hayley Holt or Andrew Saville, and weather by Daniel Corbett or Renee Wright.

The bulletin is usually structured like this:
First Segment (10–15 minutes):
Local news items
Major international stories

Second Segment (8–10 minutes):
International news items
Weather update (showing maximum temperatures in towns and cities around the country and live weather camera shots in the six main cities)

Third Segment (5–8 minutes):
Top stories recap
Business news (if any)
Miscellaneous local news items

Fourth Segment (10–15 minutes):
1 Sport sports items

Fifth Segment (5–8 minutes):
Main weather forecast
Human interest story

1 News Midday is a half-hour long bulletin that airs at midday each weekday, and is hosted by Oriini Kaipara. It competes with Three's Three News at 12pm.

1 News at 4:30 is a half-hour long bulletin that airs at 4:30pm each weekday, and is hosted by Oriini Kaipara.

1 News Tonight is a half-hour long bulletin that airs at approximately 10:30 pm on TVNZ 1 each weeknight, and is usually hosted by Jenny Suo. It competes with Three's Nightline.

Te Karere is a news and current affairs show that was New Zealand's first Māori language television programme. Te Karere is broadcast on Television New Zealand's TVNZ 1 at 4:00 pm on weekdays and repeated 1:05 am and 5:35 am the following day. The focus of the programme is content which is of national significance to the targeted Māori audience. The programme is funded in its entirety by Te Māngai Pāho.

Close Up is a half-hour long New Zealand current affairs programme produced by Television New Zealand. The programme airs at 7.00pm weeknights (straight after 1 News at Six) on TVNZ 1 and is presented by Hillary Barry. The programme features mostly local human interest stories.

The new Close Up began broadcasting on 2 November 2004 as a replacement for the Holmes show immediately after Paul Holmes announced his resignation from TVNZ and that he would be presenting a similar show on Prime in 2005. The show was originally branded as Close Up at 7 using the existing Holmes studio but when the show relaunched in 2005 it was just branded as Close Up.

Breakfast is a New Zealand morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on TVNZ 1, produced by 1 News. Debuting on 11 August 1997, it was the first of its genre in New Zealand. It contains a mixture of breaking news, news, sport, weather and feature items. Originally a two-hour programme, it was expanded to three hours in 2012.

Ten minutes of news, sport and weather is presented every half-hour between 6:00 and 8:30, followed by the weather bulletin. Mostly, the programme has interviews with newsmakers or TVNZ reporters on the day's headlines. The first hour of the programme is devoted to news stories, and the rest of the programme has entertainment or special interest segments. Business news is updated at around 6:10am, 7:10am and 8:10am.

Saturday Breakfast is a New Zealand morning news and talkshow based on Breakfast, that airs on Saturday mornings on TVNZ 1, produced by 1 News. The show premiered on 3 September 2011.

10 minutes of news, sport and weather is presented every half hour between 7:00 and 8:30. Weather is presented from a location around the country, usually where an event is happening. Mostly, the programme has interviews with newsmakers and/or TVNZ reporters. The rest of the show has entertainment or special interest segments.

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TVNZ 2 is the second New Zealand television channel owned and operated by the state-owned broadcaster Television New Zealand (TVNZ). It targets a younger audience than its sister channel, TVNZ 1.

TVNZ 2 is New Zealand's second-oldest television channel, formed in 1975 following the break-up of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation into Radio New Zealand, Television One and Television Two. It began broadcasting on 30 June 1975, and for most of the 1970s was known as South Pacific Television. In 1980, it became a part of TVNZ when South Pacific Television and Television One merged, and reverted to the name TV2. The channel was renamed TVNZ 2 in October 2016.

The channel is broadcast on the government owned Kordia terrestrial network as well as on one of the two Kordia satellite transponders, which is included in channel packages on the Freeview and Sky platforms. Sky also make the channel available on one of their own satellite transponders.

TVNZ 2's line up consists of dramas, comedies, and reality TV shows. A small number are produced in New Zealand which are either of a comedic, soap opera or reality nature, with rest of the line-up imported from mostly a Warner Bros. or Disney catalogue or a Fremantle or Endemol soap opera/reality TV catalogue.

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TVNZ Duke is a New Zealand television channel run by state broadcaster Television New Zealand. It screens programming targeted at a male audience. It was launched on 20 March 2016 and replaced TVNZ U.

The channel is available on Freeview channel 13 and channel 23 on Sky. Some programming is also available on TVNZ OnDemand.

Its programming includes comedy, drama, documentaries, movies, music (under the Dukebox Music banner) and sport. It operates between the hours of 6pm and midnight, and occasionally screens live sport events outside these hours.

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TVNZ Heartland is a pay TV channel operated by TVNZ. Heartland launched on 1 June 2010, 50 years to the day that TV broadcasting began in New Zealand. The first show introduced From the Archives, a compilation series of five decades of classic New Zealand TV shows. While TVNZ channels are traditionally available free to air, TVNZ Heartland is only available to Sky subscribers.

TVNZ Heartland features only New Zealand made shows, mostly reruns of classic shows as well as more recent shows.

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TVNZ Kidzone is a 24-hour New Zealand children's channel service run by state broadcaster Television New Zealand. The channel is available on Freeview and Sky. Some programming is also available on TVNZ OnDemand.

TVNZ Kidzone was originally a 12-hour service running on TVNZ 6. TVNZ relaunched the channel which became a 24-hour service on 1 May 2011.

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TVNZ 6 is a commercial-free television channel operated by Television New Zealand. The channel is available on Freeview and Sky. Some programming is also available on TVNZ OnDemand.

TVNZ 6 is on air for 18 hours. It closes down at midnight and starts back at 6am. The name TVNZ 6 was chosen because it was numeric, was deemed to allow 'a broader content structure than any descriptive title', and matches the number assigned to it on the Freeview electronic programme guide.

TVNZ 6 broadcasts two distinct services: TVNZ Family which screens family-based programming from 6:00am to 8:30pm, and TVNZ Showcase which screens arts and drama programming between 8:30pm and midnight.

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TVNZ 7 is a commercial-free television news and information channel operated by Television New Zealand. The channel is available on Freeview and Sky. Some programming is also available on TVNZ OnDemand.

The channel was officially launched at 12 noon on March 30, 2008 with a special "Kingmaker" political debate held within the Parliament building and featuring most of the elected minor party leaders.

While it was originally reported to be a 'rolling news channel', similar to Sky News and HLN, Eric Kearley, head of TVNZ's Digital Launch team, has stated about 70% of the schedule will be "factual variety" programming - a mix of local and overseas documentaries, and programmes that discuss current events and sport, with the remaining 30% being the news updates. A full schedule was released on 28 February 2008.

1 News produces news bulletins for TVNZ's factual channel, TVNZ 7. These bulletins are called 1 News Now, and are screened live on the hour every hour, between 6am-11pm, seven days a week. The bulletins are 10 minutes long, and update the latest in news, sport and weather. Between 6am-9am on weekdays, there are rolling bulletins for the whole three hours. The 8pm bulletin, 1 News at Eight is one hour long, and is presented by Jenny Suo on weekdays and Melissa Stokes on weekends. This bulletin generally recaps the main stories from the 1 News 6pm bulletin, but since TVNZ 7 is advertisement free, this enables more time for extended interviews on the day's top stories, and extra international stories are also aired.