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TVNZ 7 was a commercial-free New Zealand 24-hour news and information channel on
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digital television platform and on Sky Television from 1 July 2009. It was produced by
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, which received Government funding to launch two additional channels. The channel went to air just after 10am on 25 March 2008 with a looped preview reel. The channel was officially launched at noon on 30 March 2008 with a special "kingmaker" political debate held within the Parliament building and featuring most of the elected minor party leaders. The channel went off air at midnight on 30 June 2012 to the
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. It featured TVNZ News Now updates every hour from 6am to 11pm, with a specialised 'zone' between 6am and 9am on weekdays, throughout which ten-minute bulletins were aired back-to-back. TVNZ 7 also featured an hour-long bulletin, ''TVNZ News at 8'', at 8pm each night. It was hosted on weeknights by
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and on weekends by
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. While it was originally reported to be a 'rolling news channel', similar to
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, Eric Kearley, head of TVNZ's Digital Launch team, stated about 70% of the schedule would be "factual variety" programming – a mix of local and overseas documentaries, and programmes that discuss current events and sport, with the remaining 30% being the news updates. A full schedule was released on 28 February 2008. The channel was relaunched on 1 March 2011, taking some programming from TVNZ 6, another
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-based digital channel, when TVNZ decided to transform into an interactive broadcast station
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. On 6 April 2011, it was officially announced that TVNZ 7 would cease broadcast in June 2012. This was confirmed when Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman stated on behalf of the government that they would not extend further funding for the channel due to low ratings. This was despite viewing figures that suggested half of all households with
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at the time were watching TVNZ 7 – around 700,000 people – and not the 207,000 claimed by Coleman. In March 2012, Television New Zealand confirmed this decision and announced there would be no eleventh-hour reprieve for TVNZ 7. TVNZ 7 was replaced on 1 July 2012 by TV One Plus 1, a timeshift channel of TV One.


Programming


TVNZ News Now

TVNZ 7 operated as a rolling news channel between 6am and midnight, with bulletins broadcast for six to 12 minutes every hour. This included hourly bulletins from 6am to 11pm every day, except for at 8pm. Every TVNZ News Now bulletin was researched, written, produced and presented by a presenter/producer duo. These included Glen Larmer, Jenny-May Coffin, Brooke Dobson, Ben Christie, Tiffany Hardy, Fiona Anderson, Filipo McGrath, Andrew Scott, Susana Guttenbeil, Lisa Glass, Sandra Kailahi, Christopher Lynch, Sonia Voigt and Katie Chapman. Because of limited resources, the bulletins were scripted from news gathered from wire sources. These included One News and TVNZ affiliates
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TVNZ News at 8

''TVNZ News at 8'' was an hour-long commercial-free news and current affairs programme based on the One News at 6 bulletin of the same evening. It aired seven days a week at 8pm. Because the programme was commercial-free, with less sports coverage and simpler weather forecasts than One News, it was able to include the extended interviews that were the basis for the shorter One News reports, as well as more world news reports from international affiliates such as ABC America,
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. The programme was hosted on weeknights by
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presenter
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, and on weekends by
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presenter
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. The programme originally had a two presenter format, with Geraldine Knox on weekdays and Sonia Voigt on weekends.


Original programming

TVNZ 7 included two year-round, weekly flagship current affairs programmes: *Media 7 – a media review programme with Russell Brown *
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– a weekly Wednesday show live from the Backbencher pub opposite the Parliament Buildings in
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On 23 September 2008, starting at 9pm, TVNZ 7 hosted a one-off live debate on Internet-related issues from
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in Wellington. The debate, co-sponsored by InternetNZ, was hosted by Damian Christie, and moderated by ''
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''s Fran O'Sullivan and Russell Brown. The debating panel included ICT Minister
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, Opposition ICT spokesman
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, ACT leader
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, and Green Party ICT spokeswoman
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.


Controversy

Starting in October 2009, TVNZ 7 ran a promo for a new series of shows under the title "Spotlight on the Economy". The promo was publicising a new show featuring finance minister
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. Critics pointed out that the promo voiced by Bill English was done in the style of a political advertisement and promised to explain the recession in "plain English" – the name of Bill English's weekly email newsletter. It later emerged in papers released under the Official Information Act that Bill English had re-written the majority of the script to replace lines written by TVNZ with rhetoric that might be considered more conducive towards National Party policies. TVNZ claimed that because they were not in an election year and that the promo in question was promoting another programme that they did not have to present a balanced view and that many of their viewers did not care about giving other voices equal time. Later in November 2009, TVNZ acknowledged having the minister in the channel's promos was a mistake. Further controversy ensued when Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman announced that TVNZ 7 would not have its funding renewed. This prompted a campaign by TVNZ 7 supporters to oppose the decision, as TVNZ 7 was the only non-commercial public television channel in New Zealand. In April 2011, TVNZ 7 supporters also pointed out that the government had happily given a handout to TVNZ competitor MediaWorks, in the form of a government-initiated deferral of payments scheme worth $43 million. They also cited the hypocrisy of shutting down TVNZ 7 while local shows with imported formats, such as '' The G.C.'' and ''
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'', were receiving taxpayer funding from
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. Media commentator Brian Edwards pointed out that without TVNZ 7, New Zealand was about to join Mexico as the only other country in the
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without a public service television channel. A report released under the Official Information Act in November 2012 showed 91 percent of people who were aware of TVNZ 7's existence believed it was important to have a publicly funded news and information TV station. The survey, conducted before the decision was made to close the TVNZ 7, was not released to the public due to being "commercially sensitive", despite the station being non-commercial.


Closure

On Thursday 28 June about 200 people marched through Wellington in protest of impending closure. On the day of TVNZ 7's shutdown, a mock funeral procession was held in downtown Auckland. Among the more notable participants was
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founder
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, who had warmed to ''Media7'' for its championing of Internet freedom. TVNZ 7 ceased broadcasting on 30 June 2012 just before midnight. It closed with the ''
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'' with "Goodbye from TVNZ 7" superimposed on it. At 7am on 1 July, TV One Plus 1 started on the same channel.


External links


Official WebsiteChannel preview
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References

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''The Dominion Post''. Retrieved on 15 April 2007. *
It's a Fact – Around The Clock
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