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Source: New Zealand Television Archive
At 7:35pm on the November 3, 1969, the very first network news
bulletin was broadcast in New Zealand. It was presented by Dougal
Stevenson
Television news arrived in New Zealand in 1960, but it was a
regional operation, with local stations based in the four main
centres. Then a series of microwave links was set up and the NZBC
Network News was born.
Unfortunately that first broadcast no longer exists BUT check
out some of the great content we have pulled from the archive from
the early days of network news.
NZBC Network News: Standing by
NZBC Network News 1970: Labour Party conference
NZBC Network News 1970: Nixon impeachment
NZBC Network News 1970: US troops in Cambodia
NZBC Network News 1971: Easing of monetary policy
NZBC Network News 1971: Refugee crisis in Pakistan
NZBC Network News 1971: Closing titles
