Compass - First Five Years of Television

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Compass - First Five Years of Television

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Made six years after local TV broadcasting began, this wide-ranging 1966 documentary looks at the past and future of television in NZ. Political science lecturer Reg Harrison examines local content, a second channel, private enterprise, transmission challenges, editorial independence, sports coverage, and how TV’s expansion has affected other pursuits, and children. The doco includes interviews with privacy-keen Gordon Dryden and film legend Rudall Hayward, and MPs. Director Gordon Bick later...

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Video

Date created

1966

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https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/compass-first-five-years-of-television-1966

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broadcasting / media / arts / culture / transmission / sports / horse racing / avalon / the evening paper / al bell / robert kerridge / tom pearce / rugby football union / nz rugby union / sports coverage / rugby coverage / gilbert stringer / wj scott / william john scott / william scott / broadcasting minister / nzbc / alan leadley / radio / dove-myer robinson / landfall / arthur faulkner / walter nash / ariel / tom spencer / pye / reginald j harrison / reg harrison / 60s / sixties / 1966 / aerial / television studio / george manning / mayor / jm mckenzie / nz federation of televiewers / noel raymond palmer / television executive / transmitter / behind the scenes / gardening show / gardening programme / tv studio / n mcdonald / re shortt / television translator / tv translator / west coast / grey valley televiewers society / broadcasting act / broadcasting corporation act / waldo macguire / arthur kinsella / jack scott / reeves harris / b enfield / federation of televiewers assocation / whakatane televiewers society / fj llewellyn / frederick john llewellyn / second channel / charles mcfarlane / charles archibald mcfarlane / bell radio-television corporation / bell radio television corporation / new zealand broadcasting corporation / ja stenberg / new zealand broadcasting commission / minister of broadcasting

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