TV One (New Zealand)
| TVNZ 1 | |
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Current TVNZ 1 logo
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| Launched |
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| Owned by | Television New Zealand, Ltd. |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
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| Country | New Zealand |
| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Formerly called | NZBC TV (1960–1975) TV One (1975–2016) |
| Sister channel(s) | |
| Timeshift service | TVNZ 1 +1 |
| Website | http://tvnz.co.nz/tv-one |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| DVB 64-QAM on band IV | |
| Satellite | |
| DVB QPSK 576i on 12483 MHz | |
| DVB 8PSK (encrypted) on 12358 MHz | |
| Cable | |
| DVB QAM | |
| TVNZ 1 +1 | |
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| Launched | 1 July 2012 |
| Picture format | 16:9 (SDTV) |
| Broadcast area | National |
| Formerly called | TV One Plus 1 (2012-2016) |
TVNZ 1 is the first national channel of New Zealand state 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 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 was renamed TVNZ 1 in October 2016.
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 Now. Other programming consists of mainly drama, general entertainment and documentaries, both locally and internationally (especially British) produced. 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, Igloo, 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.
At 7:30pm on 1 June 1960, New Zealand's first television channel, AKTV2, started broadcasting in Auckland from the NZBC building at 74 Shortland Street, previously used to broadcast public radio station 1YA and now home to The University of Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery. Owned and operated by the New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS, which became the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation in 1962), it initially broadcast for two hours a day, two days a week. Christchurch's CHTV3 followed in June 1961, Wellington's WNTV1 a month later, and Dunedin's DNTV2 on 31 July 1962. The numbers referred to the VHF band I channel allocation the main transmission broadcast on – channel 1 (44–51 MHz) in Wellington (Mount Kaukau), channel 2 (54–61 MHz) in Auckland (Waiatarua) and Dunedin (Mount Cargill), and channel 3 (61–68 MHz) in Christchurch (Sugarloaf). TV One continued to broadcast on these frequencies until analogue switch-off in 2013.
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