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unusual facts about TVNZ



Alison Mau

Upon her return to TVNZ, Mau worked as a backup host for Breakfast and also appeared in other news, non-news, and current affairs shows including the home and lifestyle show Home Front, which she presented alongside future Dunedin mayor Dave Cull.

Bryan Bruce

#The Sir Howard Morrison Story: A 50 minute autobiographical documentary about the life of entertainer Sir Howard Morrison for TVNZ.

ChoiceTV

During March, 2013 saw the start of Sony Pictures Television shows such as the short lived ABC sitcom Mr. Sunshine and the return of the weekday daytime drama Days of our Lives which had been discontinued by TVNZ along with their exclusive Sony Pictures contract over two years ago.

Geoff Bryan

Bryan, along with Keith Quinn and John McBeth were laid off by TVNZ 2007, before the company invited all three to compete for a single vacancy in Auckland.

Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern has featured as a panel guest on the TVNZ show Back Benches.

Judy Bailey

A reshuffle in TVNZ following the departure of Paul Holmes in 2004 saw her become the sole news presenter for the 6pm ONE News bulletin, and her salary soared to NZ$800,000.

Mark Staufer

Staufer eventually moved into television on the TVNZ network’s current affairs show Newsnight as a writer, producer and on-camera reporter with Marcus Lush and Alison Mau.

Mount Albert by-election, 2009

On Wednesday, 10 June, John Boscawen, Melissa Lee, Russel Norman, David Shearer and Judy Turner (the candidates from five main parties) appeared on the TVNZ show Back Benches.

Neil Waka

Neil was soon offered the position of news anchor for TVNZ's One News Late Edition and after twelve months he took over as TVNZ One News 6pm weekday sports news presenter working alongside Judy Bailey, a position he held from the beginning of 2004 for the next four years.

Paul Moon

In the past few years, Moon has appeared on TVNZ’s Frontier of Dreams programme explaining the history of the Waitangi Treaty, on Prime TV’s New Zealand's Top 100 History Makers programme, on TVNZ’s Close Up, Marae, Te Karere, and Waka Huia programmes, on TV3 News, on Sky News Australia, and on Maori Television as an election night analyst.

Telephone numbers in New Zealand

Television shows and movies generally use any available range of numbers (e.g. the TVNZ soap opera Shortland Street uses the unassigned (09) 4299 number range.

Television in New Zealand

By 1998–1999, the National Party–led coalition was moving to privatise TVNZ and announced that the broadcasting fee would be discontinued.

Toni Street

She assumed the reins from the TVNZ duo of Lavina Good and Brendan Telfer, who both stood down after the completion of National Bank Cup netball in 2007.

TVNZ ondemand

Since April 2010, TVNZ Ondemand has been available on the PlayStation 3 as an extra option in the XrossMediaBar for anyone in New Zealand running version 3.10 of the system firmware or later.


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