Here is the News - The End of the NZ Broadcasting Corporation

In 1975 the single television channel system run by the NZ Broadcasting Corporation ceased to exist. In April, Television One officially launched; in July a new second channel, later known as South Pacific Television, followed suit. Television One began from a custom-made production facility in Lower Hutt. Writer Robert Boyd-Bell describes the phones "going crazy with complaints". In this excerpt from a 1991 documentary on 30 years of Kiwi TV journalism, the almost complete Avalon studio makes its debut and Television One newsreader Dougal Stevenson announces a new chapter in TV history.

Ladies and Gentlemen, you are very welcome. Television One is here, at last.

– Newsreader Dougal Stevenson welcomes viewers to Television One

Key Cast & Crew

Carol Hirschfeld

Producer, Director

Dougal Stevenson

Subject

Kurt Sanders

Writer

Shaun Brown

Executive Producer

John Cathcart

Sound

Denys Clarke

Camera