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Television in New Zealand was introduced in 1960. Provision was first made for the licensing of private radio and television stations in New Zealand by the Broadcasting Act 1976. In New Zealand there are three forms of broadcast digital television. Satellite services provided nationwide by both Freeview and Sky, terrestrial DVB-T service provided in the main centres by Freeview and Igloo, Broadband service delivered over cable and fibre broadband, available in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, Whangarei, Palmerston North and Dunedin from Vodafone. The first nationwide digital TV service was launched in December 1998 by Sky TV, who had a monopoly on digital satellite TV until the launch of Freeview's nationwide digital satellite service in May 2007. The Freeview digital terrestrial television service launched on 14 April 2008. A pay digital terrestrial service was launched in 2012 by Igloo. This is a joint venture between Sky and TVNZ and provides Freeview UHF aerial channels along with 11 Sky channels. Broadband television currently operates in Wellington, Christchurch, Whangarei, Palmerston North and Dunedin from Vodafone. The Vodafone service includes all Sky TV channels and Freeview channels. High definition programming is available from Freeview and Igloo on terrestrial, on Sky TV through the My Sky HDi decoder and on Vodafone through ultra-fast broadband. The digital television transition in New Zealand is now complete. It began on 30 September 2012, when Hawke's Bay and the West Coast (including parts of Tasman) switched off analogue television transmission. The rest of the South Island switched off analogue television transmission on 28 April 2013, followed by the lower North Island on 29 September 2013. The upper North Island (including the Waikato, Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Northland) was the last region to cease analogue transmissions on 1 December 2013. == History == Full-time television broadcasting was first introduced in New Zealand in 1960 and transmitted from the NZBC's existing 1YA radio broadcasting facility at 74 Shortland Street in Auckland, now home to the University of Auckland's Gus Fisher Gallery. The annual television licence fee was NZ£4. Initially, programming was done on a regional basis, with different services broadcasting from the main cities, AKTV2 in Auckland, being the first on 1 June 1960, followed in 1961 by CHTV3 in Christchurch on 1 June and WNTV1 in Wellington on 1 July, and then DNTV2 in Dunedin on 31 July 1962. Today, however, programming and scheduling is done in Auckland where all the major networks are now headquartered. It was not until 1969 that the four stations were networked; the NZBC's first live network news bulletin was read by Dougal Stevenson on 5 November. The NZBC had asked the government for the approval of a second TV channel as early as 1964, but this was rejected as the government considered increasing coverage of the existing TV service to be of greater priority. By 1971, however, two proposals for a second channel were under consideration: that of the NZBC for a non-commercial service; and a separate commercial channel to be operated by an Independent Television Corporation, headed by Gordon Dryden.〔(''New Zealand Film and Television: Institution, Industry and Cultural Change'' ), Trisha Dunleavy, Hester Joyce, Intellect Books, 2012〕 Although the Broadcasting Authority had favoured the Independent Television Corporation bid, the incoming Labour government favoured the NZBC's application and awarded it the licence without any formal hearings beforehand. (Eventually, Independent Television was awarded NZ$50,000 in compensation.)〔(''Parliamentary Debates'' ), New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives 1979〕 On 31 October 1973, colour television using the Phase Alternating Line (PAL) system was introduced, in readiness for the 1974 British Commonwealth Games, which were to be held in Christchurch in January and February 1974. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Television in New Zealand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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