![[Valid RSS]](images/valid-rss-rogers.png "Valid RSS")
This is a valid RSS feed.
This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.
... tv/index.php?format=feed&type=rss"/>
^
line 16, column 0: (6 occurrences) [help]
<description><![CDATA[<div class="feed-description"><p><img class="fltrt ...
line 16, column 0: (5 occurrences) [help]
<description><![CDATA[<div class="feed-description"><p><img class="fltrt ...
line 55, column 86: (2 occurrences) [help]
... #039; first glimpse of colour television</title>
^
<p><iframe src="https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/remote-player?id=2018923318" wid ...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!-- generator="Joomla! - Open Source Content Management" --><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <channel> <title>Home</title> <description><![CDATA[Site celebrating the history of New Zealand Television production.]]></description> <link>https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php</link> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 13:41:16 +0000</lastBuildDate> <generator>Joomla! - Open Source Content Management</generator> <atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php?format=feed&type=rss"/> <language>en-gb</language> <item> <title>2024 - TVNZ Cancels some News, Current affairs and Fair Go</title> <link>https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php?view=article&id=3874:2024-tvnz-cancels-some-news-current-affairs-and-fair-go&catid=74</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php?view=article&id=3874:2024-tvnz-cancels-some-news-current-affairs-and-fair-go&catid=74</guid> <description><![CDATA[<div class="feed-description"><p><img class="fltrt thirdwidth" src="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/images/stories/locations/tvnz_building.webp" alt="TVNZ Auckland Headquaters" width="1050" height="701" loading="lazy" data-path="local-images:/stories/locations/tvnz_building.webp" />Just over a week after <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/blog-mainmenu-9/3872-2024-tv3-cancels-the-news">TV3 canceled the news</a> the dire drop in advertising income across the board has forced TVNZ to review its operations and come up with a plan to cut costs.</p><p>Most staff learnt via other media sources that the network has proposed:</p><ul><li>Canceling current affairs programmes <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/51-current-affairs/1850-sunday-2002-2002-continuing-77315422">Sunday</a> and <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/59-lifestyle/1904-fair-go-03-apr-77-continuing-32118624">Fair Go</a>, alongside two daily news bulletins.</li><li>Firing up to 68 staff; half of which are believed to be in the newsroom. Job losses were also being proposed with TVNZ's youth news service Re: and news video content producers.</li><li>Cancelling all daily news bulletins aside from <cite>1News at Six</cite></li></ul><p><img class="fltlft thirdwidth" src="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/images/stories/fair_go.jpg" width="313" height="224" loading="lazy" />TV shows come and go as they find and loose an audience, but the recent moves by both networks reflect a existential crisis in linear TV that will no doubt have further consequences in the coming years. </p><p>Within the Kiwi-TV household the only time the TV is tuned to a broadcast station is the RNZ simulcast on Channel 50. Everything else we watch is on demand via streaming apps, and I seriously doubt my 12 year old even knows what the phrases TVNZ and TV3 stand for. It's only her 80 year old grand-mother who regularly sits down for a games show then the network news, but soon after that she switches to a streaming service to watch what she wants when she wants. </p><p>In the face of these kinds of changes people at both networks and their families face drastic life changes. They deserve everyone's sympathy and best wishes for the future.</p></div>]]></description> <author>dps206@gmail.com (Daza)</author> <category>Featured</category> <category>Newsflashes</category> <category>ROOT</category> <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 01:11:41 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>2024 - TV3 Cancels the News</title> <link>https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/blog-mainmenu-9/3872-2024-tv3-cancels-the-news</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/blog-mainmenu-9/3872-2024-tv3-cancels-the-news</guid> <description><![CDATA[<div class="feed-description"><p><img class="fltrt thirdwidth" src="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/images/stories/meta/memorabilia/sorted/tv3_tie_pin.jpg" alt="tie pin" width="537" height="403" loading="lazy" data-path="local-images:/stories/meta/memorabilia/sorted/tv3_tie_pin.jpg" />In late February 2024 TV3's owners announced to staff, then the country that due to the financial reality of plunging advertising spending in the New Zealand media market the company would be canceling their <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/52-news/3628-newshub-2016-now">Newshub</a> 6pm news show from June 2024 and making all associated staff redundant. At the same time they will be halting all local TV production unless there was some significant cost sharing in place via co-productions or NZ on Air funding.</p><p>Aside from warning of a "crisis for democracy" with the disappearance of TV3 as a news outlet Media commentators all point out that this move most likely heralds the end of TV3 as a real time live to air station and local producer of content. The logic is that without the News to attract viewers to the channel at the start of the evening its audience numbers will only go down, income will fall, and there is less to spend on original content. The phrase "Death spiral" springs to mind.</p><p>{youtube}tmp55oXbTwc{/youtube}</p><p>TV3 brough a fresh approach to New Zealand TV screens in<strong> <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/history-mainmenu-50/64-important-developments/3876-1989-11-26-tv3-begins-broadcasting">November 27 1989</a></strong>, one that attracted a younger audience. Their approach to news back at the start was a little bit livelier that TVNZ at the time with more scope for the on air staff to display some character and a kiwi sense of humour while still providing in depth news coverage.</p><p>{gallery}/meta/adverts/tv3_job_ads{/gallery}</p><p>The shows like <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/52-news/412-nightline">Nightline</a> got the attention of 20 somethings like myself and felt more in-tune with life in NZ than the more "BBC-lite" approach that has always dominated TVNZ's shows, and they broadcast a range of overseas shows like Canadian tv's <cite>Muchmusic</cite> and <cite>Ed's House Party</cite> which seemed more edgy and up-to-the-minute than most shows screening at the time on TVNZ..</p><p>Over time they launched a range of their own local shows, some of which made their mark:</p><p><img class="thirdwidth fltrt" src="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/images/stories/meta/memorabilia/sorted/tv3_badge_mickey_mouse_1989ish.jpg" alt="badge" width="504" height="519" loading="lazy" data-path="local-images:/stories/meta/memorabilia/sorted/tv3_badge_mickey_mouse_1989ish.jpg" />{loadmoduleid 235}</p><p>The fate of the channel will take shape over 2024, but whatever happens the channel left an impression on Kiwi culture that only TV could back at the turn of the century when linear TV held sway in the media ecosphere.</p><p>{youtube}ueK2iWYvIik{/youtube}</p><p> </p></div>]]></description> <author>dps206@gmail.com (Daza)</author> <category>Featured</category> <category>Newsflash</category> <category>Newsflashes</category> <category>ROOT</category> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:17:49 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>1974-01-24: Most New Zealanders&#039; first glimpse of colour television</title> <link>https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/history-mainmenu-50/64-important-developments/3863-1974-01-24-most-new-zealanders-first-glimpse-of-colour-television</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/history-mainmenu-50/64-important-developments/3863-1974-01-24-most-new-zealanders-first-glimpse-of-colour-television</guid> <description><![CDATA[<div class="feed-description"><p><img class="fltrt thirdwidth" src="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/images/stories/meta/74_games_test.png" alt="Commonwealth games" width="450" height="337" loading="lazy" data-path="local-images:/stories/meta/74_games_test.png" />RNZ notes the 50th anniversary of most New Zealanders' first glimpse of colour television via the broadcast coverage of the 1974 Commonwealth Games from Christchurch.</p><p><iframe src="https://www.rnz.co.nz/audio/remote-player?id=2018923318" width="100%" height="62px" frameborder="0"></iframe></p></div>]]></description> <author>dps206@gmail.com (Daza)</author> <category>Featured</category> <category>Important Developments</category> <category>History</category> <category>ROOT</category> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:13:40 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>We are destroyers rather than hoarders of our past...</title> <link>https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php?view=article&id=3700:we-are-destroyers-rather-than-hoarders-of-our-past&catid=74</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php?view=article&id=3700:we-are-destroyers-rather-than-hoarders-of-our-past&catid=74</guid> <description><![CDATA[<div class="feed-description"><p>Recently discovered this passage in Joanne Dryton's <cite>Hudson & Halls: The Food of Love</cite> (pg9) that stopped me in my tracks as she perfectly sums up the fate of so much of New Zealand's television output, and sadly there is little evidence that even present day productions will fare any better.</p><blockquote>Sadly, today, there is very little left of the 300 programmes <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/59-lifestyle/141-hudson-and-halls-1976-86">Hudson and Halls</a> made during their 11 years on New Zealand television: just a handful of complete shows, some film excerpts shot in the late 1970s, a few interviews and some Telethon footage. The duo's sparse representation in our film and television archive is an indictment on our capacity to recognise what is great and value it. We are destroyers rather than hoarders of our past: Kiwis let go of their treasures too easily. The consequence of historical amnesia is a present that lacks wisdom and self- knowledge.</blockquote></div>]]></description> <author>dps206@gmail.com (Daza)</author> <category>Featured</category> <category>Newsflashes</category> <category>ROOT</category> <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:55:23 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>How many New Zealand archival TV shows have been digitally preserved?</title> <link>https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/faqs-mainmenu-44/3446-how-many-of-new-zealands-archival-tv-shows-have-been-digitally-preserved</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/faqs-mainmenu-44/3446-how-many-of-new-zealands-archival-tv-shows-have-been-digitally-preserved</guid> <description><![CDATA[<div class="feed-description"><p><img class="fullwidth" style="font-size: 1rem; width: 855.359px;" src="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/images/stories/digitally-preserved_2014-2023.png" alt="Bar chart" width="858" height="530" loading="lazy" data-path="local-images:/stories/digitally-preserved_2014-2023.png" /></p><p>TVNZ archive titles would be a subset of the figures for 2019 onwards which record all audio visual material processed. As the TVNZ material has often been categorised as "at risk" we might safely assume that they make up a majority of titles being preserved each year.</p><p>The 2022/23 figures are a welcome jump in progress in the project to have 200,000 at risk tapes digitalised by 2025.</p></div>]]></description> <author>dps206@gmail.com (Daza)</author> <category>Featured</category> <category>FAQs</category> <category>FAQs</category> <category>ROOT</category> <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:35:35 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>New Zealand&#039;s "Lost" TV Shows?</title> <link>https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/history-mainmenu-50/64-important-developments/423-new-zealands-qlostq-tv-shows</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/history-mainmenu-50/64-important-developments/423-new-zealands-qlostq-tv-shows</guid> <description><![CDATA[<div class="feed-description"><p>A visitor to the site asked how rare the material in his collection of old beta tapes might be; sadly the answer is that any home recordings of local tv shows from back when domestic beta recorders were available - 1975 to around 2002 - might be very rare indeed.</p><p>NZ shows were not distributed to other countries in other formats and we didn't have home VCRs until into the 1980s, so no one is sure how much local TV from back then still exists on a tape somewhere. This post from the <a href="https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=43849#3030576">Mutcat forum</a> gives a good idea of the conditions that applied for TV recordings in local TV stations back in the day:</p><blockquote>Subject: RE: BBC Treasure Hunt<br />From: Little Robyn<br />Date: 12 Nov 10 - 03:11 PM<br /><br />Chris, at Channel One, NZBC, in the 60s and 70s, videotape was expensive (2inch wide) and at 15ips, a half hour programme on a metal spool was heavy and took up lots of space.<br />So unless a producer said "Keep that one" (in which case someone had to find storage space) after a certain period of time the videotape room was instructed to ERASE the tape and put it back in the shelves to use again. Some of the news or sports stuff that they wanted for the archives, was fed through the Telerecorder and a black and white film was made - usually very grainy and of lousy quality.<br />The methods of recording used today were only a dream then.<br />I'm sure BBC had the same problems. If a programme was done on film, there was a solid copy, but if it was a studio programme on VT, the tapes were usually wiped. (Except for Wn3366 which I kept hidden behind #1)<br />Robyn ex WNTV1 VT and Telecine operator, 1968 - 1973</blockquote><p>The issue of just what happened to tapes was the subject of an interesting article in 2023: <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/300791185/why-is-there-no-recorded-footage-of-nz-hall-of-fame-inductees-larrys-rebels">Why is there no recorded footage of NZ Hall of Fame inductees Larry's Rebels</a>?</p><p>Most episodes of early shows like <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/47-drama/38-pukemanu-1971-72">Pukemanu</a>, <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/47-drama/41-alpha-plan-the-1969">Alpha Plan</a>, <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/47-drama/31-section-7-1972">Section 7</a>, <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/53-musical-variety/215-happen-inn-1969-73">Happen Inn</a>, seem to be missing, and even later shows like <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/56-sports/327-on-the-mat-1975-84">On The Mat</a>, <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/tv-shows-mainmenu-42/50-soaps/35-close-to-home-1975-83">Close to Home</a> etc are for the most part lost as well.</p><p>Sadly even with the exposure of some archival material during the celebration of fifty years of TV in New Zealand in 2010 and on the HeartlandTV (2010-2015) channel there hasn't been any great public interest in getting access to the older shows or any strong commercial interest in exploiting the material that does still exist, but if you do happen to have any old New Zealand TV shows on film, beta, VHS, audio cassette, script form, or any other related documents or ephemera please do get in touch so those of us who have an interest can enjoy them.</p><p>I know that here in the UK there has been a joint effort between interested parties to try and track TV material down via the <a href="http://www.petford.net/kaleidoscope/kaleidoscope-raiders.of.the.lost.archives.list.2008.pdf">Raiders of the Lost Archives List</a> in a similar way to the NZ film archive's film search campaign from several years ago.</p><p>I've sent e-mails out to folk I've dealt with in the past asking if there is any coordinated approach between TVNZ, The Film Archive and other interested parties to document which New Zealand shows are missing thought lost (no copies held in archives), and how they might encourage folk to do something with their old off air recording.</p><p>Sadly TVNZ never replied.The folks from the film archive and NZ on screen did, saying there's no coordinated approach to the issue, but there was interest in pursuing the idea.</p></div>]]></description> <author>lonely@lonely.geek.nz (Daza)</author> <category>Featured</category> <category>Important Developments</category> <category>History</category> <category>ROOT</category> <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> <title>Televison archives and schedules for New Zealand</title> <link>https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/faqs-mainmenu-44/2912-televison-archives-and-schedules-for-new-zealand</link> <guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/faqs-mainmenu-44/2912-televison-archives-and-schedules-for-new-zealand</guid> <description><![CDATA[<div class="feed-description"><p>The folks at the UKTV focused <a href="http://the-mausoleum-club.org.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3862">Mausoleum Club Forum</a> were chatting about where copies of old UK TV shows might be hiding in archives around the world and how to find out what screened in particular countries. I gave them my suggestions for where tapes and information live in New Zealand as follows:<br /><br /><strong>Archives:</strong> <br /><a href="https://www.ngataonga.org.nz/">ngataonga.org.nz</a> - New Zealand’s audiovisual archive. Their purpose is to collect, care for and share the audiovisual Taonga (treasure, anything prized) of Aotearoa. They have stewardship of the Television New Zealand video archives which might include a bit of UK material but probably not a lot. Check out the <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/blog-mainmenu-9/2892-nga-taonga-sound-vision-on-the-move">Status of the collection.</a> <br /><br /><strong>Schedules</strong><br /><a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv//kiwi-tv/index.php/history-mainmenu-50/91-magazines/2659-new-zealand-listener-1939">The Listener</a> was the publication of record for NZ TV broadcasts for most of 20th century. From an archival television perspective their <a href="https://www.noted.co.nz/the-listener">website has always sucked</a>, and the situation is even worse in the aftermath of their temporary closure and sale in 2020/21.</p><p>Thanks to the hard work and generosity of a fellow archival TV researcher the Listener's TV listing pages from the 1974 to 1998 are <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cXBYXTfvS-DoTForzWXhnpWLinIEzytx?usp=sharing">available as pdfs</a>.</p><p>As far as I know no one has any plan to digitize full back issues so aside from the 74 to 98 listings pages any research needs to be via hard copies in a library; I've accessed copies in Auckland Library and the University of Canterbury collections. There are also some collections of the Listener in the UK <a href="https://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/gpg/2057.html">llas.ac.uk/resources/</a> including the University of Edinburgh: <a href="https://discovered.ed.ac.uk/permalink/f/1njkql8/44UOE_ALMA2177739610002466">discovered.ed.ac.uk.</a></p><p>Editions of The Christchurch Press up to 1989 have been added to the <a href="https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/">National Library’s Papers Past digital archive website</a> which is a big help when researching screenings as The Press ran daily listings along with some reviews and promotional articles/interviews.<br /><br />I "borrow" any scans of schedules I happen across on the inter-webs and put them here: <a href="https://www.lonely.geek.nz/kiwi-tv/index.php/history-mainmenu-50/95-tv-listings-through-the-years">TV listings through the years</a></p></div>]]></description> <author>dps206@gmail.com (Daza)</author> <category>Featured</category> <category>FAQs</category> <category>FAQs</category> <category>ROOT</category> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2019 07:45:26 +0000</pubDate> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
Download the "valid RSS" banner.
Upload the image to your own server. (This step is important. Please do not link directly to the image on this server.)
Add this HTML to your page (change the image src attribute if necessary):
If you would like to create a text link instead, here is the URL you can use:
