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- Title
- 50 Years of New Zealand Television: 1 - From One Channel to One Hundred
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
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- NZ On Screen
- Description
The opening episode of the Prime TV series celebrating 50 years of New Zealand television travels from an opening night puppet show in 1960, through to Outrageous Fortune five decades later. It traverses the medium's development and its major turning points (including the rise of programme-making and news, networking, colour and the arrival of TV3, Prime, NZ On Air, Sky and Māori Television). Many of the major players are interviewed. The changing nature of the NZ living room — always with th...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 2010
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/50-years-of-nz-tv-episode-one-2010
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