1News
One News is the news-service produced by Television New Zealand. The service is broadcast live, directly from TVNZ's broadcasting centre in Auckland. The flagship news bulletin is the nightly 6pm news, but ONE News also has a midday news and late night news, as well as current affairs shows such as Breakfast and Close Up.
The 6pm programme is New Zealand's most-watched news programme. As of 2005, it has a market share of 54% (700,000+ each night).
History
The first NZBC Network News bulletin was made in 1969 and was read by Dougal Stevenson.
In 1971, the Warkworth Satellite Station was opened, which meant news stories would be received a lot quicker.
1973 saw Angela D'Audney as New Zealand's first woman news reader. Other news readers included Phillip Sherry, Jenny Goodwin, Alma Johnston, Doug Armstrong and Roger Gasgoigne.
In 1975, NZBC was dissolved to make Television ONE, Television Two and Radio New Zealand, and later in 1980 TV One and TV Two combined into TVNZ.
Up until the end of 1990 TVNZ operated a unique Regional News programme based from the 4 main regions. The Top Half originally hosted by John Hawkesby and Judy Bailey was the regional news show from the upper North Island based from Auckland. In Otago and Southland the news show was The South Tonight based in Dunedin and presented by Hilary Muir-Clark. Originally the regional news show ran for 20 minutes during the nightly news between the sports and weather news but was moved to before the 6PM news in 1989 to make way for the Holmes show.
1988 Judy Bailey and Richard Long started presenting ONE Network News. They would remain the main news presenters for the next 10 years.
1989 saw the first international correspondents, Susan Wood in Sydney, Australia and Liam Jeory in London, England.
In April 1989 the first episode of Holmes, a 30 minute current affairs show following ONE News went to air hosted by Paul Holmes. It included the infamous Dennis Conner interview. Conner being provoked, walked off the show, providing Holmes headlines the next day.
In 1998, TVNZ was able to get John Hawkesby to switch from 3 News to present with Judy Bailey. When he did come on air, there was a public outcry over the separation of Judy and Richard, that lead to Long being reinstated and Hawkesby taking TVNZ to court, a dispute that he subsequently won.
On the last day of the millennium, December 31 1999 One Network News relaunched as One News.
2003 saw a major shake up of TVNZ news and current affairs with entering head Bill Ralston making sweeping changes to the formats of all the news shows. A new state-of-the-art studio was in use for One News programmes, but many presenters were culled including in Breakfast and also the main bulletin from two to one news presenter, which would be Judy Bailey, splitting the partnership of Long and Bailey. Jim Hickey one of the most popular weather presenters, and April Ieremia also left in 2003.
On 2 November, 2004, Paul Holmes resigned from TVNZ after failed contract negotiations. He announced he was moving to a rival TV company, Prime Television, which had offered a three-year contract. Consequently the Holmes show ended immediately and was replaced by a new current affairs show Close Up, which was exactly the same as Holmes but with Susan Wood as the host and it followed One News.
In October of 2005, TVNZ announced that it would not be renewing long-standing flagship broadcaster Judy Bailey's contract; some observers believe this was a direct reaction to the programme's market share decline in Auckland to 3 News. Judy Bailey left at the end of 2005, being the longest serving news presenter.
On January 23rd 2006, Wendy Petrie and Simon Dallow started presenting a re-vamped ONE News format.
In December 2006, Susan Wood announced her resignation from TVNZ due to health reasons. Mark Sainsbury was confirmed to be the presenter for Close Up in 2007, with Paul Henry being the supporting host.
In April 2007, many job cuts were made in the news and current affiars department of TVNZ, with all programmes expected to lose some staff.
Management
The head of News and Current Affairs was Bill Ralston, however, after resigning in January 2007, deputy head of news and current affairs Steve Rowe has taken current responsibility. Anthony Flannery, currently working at Channel Nine's A Current Affair will take over the role from May 2007. Former Channel Ten news producer Tony Davenport is the current producer of ONE News.
Programmes
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One News
- Every day at 6pm. Weekdays also includes Midday at 12 noon, and Tonight at approximately 10.30pm.
- Presented by:
- Weekdays: Simon Dallow, Wendy Petrie, Neil Waka
- Weekends: Bernadine Oliver-Kerby, Tony Veitch
- Midday: Peter Williams
- Tonight: Sacha McNeil is currently filling in for Kate Hawkesby who is on maternity leave.
- Weather: Karen Olsen, Brendan Horan
One News underwent a format change in 2006 to combat falling ratings. The main news bulletin begins at 6pm, starting with national and international news stories in the first 35 minutes. At 6:30, they go through the major news headlines, followed by the 6:30 Report on weekdays. Sport news is covered for 15 minutes which is followed by business news and the sharemarket. Weather and oddspot items finish off the bulletin.
The 6:30 Report is a special insight into a variety of topics that affect New Zealand, such as dubious schemes, business issues and inspirational people. Sometimes they are a deeper look at the major news headline of the night.
Midday and Tonight are half an hour long with the latest headlines, sports news and weather updates. Tonight also presents the headlines that will appear in major New Zealand newspapers the next day. During Breakfast, news is updated every half hour.
Breakfast
- Weekdays at 7am
- Presented by Paul Henry and Kay Gregory. News presented by Peter Williams, sport by Stephen Stuart and weather by Rochelle Gillespie.
Two hour long magazine style news and current affairs programme, which looks at the days headlines and events happening around New Zealand. News, sport and weather is updated every half hour, with business news being updated after 8am.
ASB Business
- Weekdays at 6.30am
- Presented by Michael Wilson
Half hour business news program, with insights into issues affecting the business sector. In September 2006 ASB Business began podcasting segments of its programme.
Close Up
- Weekdays at 7pm
- Presented by Mark Sainsbury, Paul Henry
Half hour current affairs program.
Sunday
- Sundays at 7.30pm
- Presented by Cameron Bennett
Current affairs programme, featuring local and international stories.
Agenda
- Saturdays at 8:30am
- Presented by Lisa Owen
Eye-to-Eye
- Saturdays at 9.30am
- Presented by Willie Jackson
Te Karere
- Weekdays at 4.40pm
- Presented by Scotty Morrison
One News Insight
- Presented by Simon Dallow or Mark Sainsbury
One off specials focusing on major issues affecting New Zealanders.
Journalists
Digital Television
Television New Zealand has announced that it will launch a 24 hour news channel, tentatively called TVNZ News 24. At this stage, all that is known about the new channel is that it will use the same resources as ONE News, and will feature news updates on the hour, every hour.
Competition
One News's main competitor is 3 News.