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Sky News New Zealand

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Sky News New Zealand is a rebroadcast of Sky News Australia however carries the NZ branding, and appears on SKY Television. The programming is nearly identical to Sky News Australia, except for a nightly bulletin, plus a twice weekly afternoon one, being produced in New Zealand.

History

In the late 1990s Sky News Australia started broadcasting in New Zealand, replacing Sky News from the UK. Shortly afterwards, Sky News Australia New Zealand was launched, with a small amount of New Zealand-specific content.

In late 2005, SKY Television purchased Prime TV and, in 2006, relaunched its local nightly news programme Prime News – First at 5:30. This was previously produced in the Sydney Sky News Australia studio. The relaunch included establishing a local news team, moving production of the show to studios in Auckland and a new weekday presenter, former TVNZ presenter Eric Young. The programme is identical to Sky News, using the same graphics and music, and provides nightly local news headlines on Sky News New Zealand. Sky News in New Zealand does not include the ‘active’ services available in Australia.

In March 2007, Sky News announced a new news programme which would be produced by Prime TV in New Zealand titled Sky News New Zealand Evening News. Sky News NZ Evening News aired at 7pm local time and was repeated twice through the evening at 8.30pm and 9pm local. It was presented by Prime’s Eric Young and Suzy Clarkson. This was replaced with repeat showings of Prime News in 2009.

It was originally thought that Sky News New Zealand would begin broadcasting in widescreen from April 26 2009. But was delayed until May 17 2009.

Programming

Local Programming

  • Prime News, which airs at 7pm and repeats at 8pm.
  • NZ Newsweek, every Friday and Saturday afternoons at 2.30pm

Other Programming

  • First Edition
  • First Business
  • News Hour
  • News now
  • News Night
  • Market Day
  • Sky Evening News
  • Sky Business Report
  • Health Report
  • Sportsline Australia
  • Agenda
  • Sky News Saturday Business
  • Sky News Sunday Business
  • Question Time
  • Sky News Eco Report
  • Book Report
  • 180° The Other Side of the News
  • Sky News UK
  • Today Tonight (Seven Network)
  • ABC World News (ABC)
  • Nightline (ABC)
  • CBS Evening News (CBS)

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TVNZ 7

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

TVNZ 7 is a commercial-free New Zealand 24-hour news and information channel on Freeview digital television platform and on SKY Television Digital from 1 July 2009. It is produced by Television New Zealand, which received Government funding to launch two additional channels. The channel went to air just after 10am on March 25, 2008 with a looped preview reel. After a countdown which lasted at least an hour, 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.

It features TVNZ News Now updates at the top of the hour from 6am-11pm, with a specialised rolling 10 minute bulletin ‘zone’ between 6am and 9am, where 18 bulletins will show in that zone. TVNZ 7 also features an hour long bulletin, TVNZ News At 8 at 8pm each night, hosted on weeknights by ONE News Tonight presenter Greg Boyed and Geraline Knox, a lawyer and broadcaster who presented news bulletins on NTV-7.

While it was originally reported to be a ‘rolling news channel’, similar to Sky News and CNN Headline News, 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.

The channel is expected to be made available to viewers in the Pacific Islands, allowing New Zealand a ‘voice in the Pacific’.

TVNZ News Presenters

  • TVNZ News Now: Fiona Anderson, Ben Christie, Jenny-May Coffin, Rochelle Gillespie, Tiffany Hardy, Sandra Kailahi, Miriama Kamo, Glen Larmer, Phil McGrath, Sonia Voigt, Renee Wright
  • TVNZ News at 8: Greg Boyed, Geraline Knox (Weekends: Miriama Kamo and Sonia Voigt)

Programmes

TVNZ News Now

TVNZ 7 features hourly bulletins from 6am to 11pm every day. Because of the nature of the channel, it’s also commercial free. Between 6-9am, there are rolling news bulletins for the whole 3 hours. TVNZ News bulletins are usually sourced from ONE News, with stories from America’s ABC, Australian ABC, BBC and CNN.

TVNZ News @ 8

The hour-long 8pm bulletin being advertising free means that there is time for extended interviews relating to the top stories, and more international stories being broadcast.

Media 7

  • Media 7, hosted by Russell Brown [1][2]

Back Benches

Is a weekly Wednesday show live from the Backbenchers pub opposite the Parliament Buildings in Wellington by Wallace Chapman [3]

TVNZ 7 Internet Debate

On 23 September 2008, starting from 9pm, TVNZ 7 hosted a one-off live debate on Internet-related issues from Avalon Studios in Wellington. The debate, co-sponsored by InternetNZ, was hosted by Damian Christie, and moderated by the NZ Herald’s Fran O’Sullivan and Russell Brown. The debating panel included ICT Minister David Cunliffe, Opposition ICT spokesman Maurice Williamson, ACT leader Rodney Hide, and Green Party ICT spokeswoman Metiria Turei. In a first for TVNZ, the debate was also broadcast over a live stream on the web site Debate.net.nz, complete with a live IRC chat feed.

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