Nga Taonga Sound Archives - Television arrives in Aotearoa

Just over 60 years ago, regular television broadcasts began in New Zealand, on the night of June 1^st 1960. In today’s visit to the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision we will hear memories from those who were there.

 Ngā Taonga Sound Archives montage of tv moments 

Watch some of Shirley Maddock’s pioneering television documentaries.

Fleetwood television c. 1960 [Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library]

A ‘square-eyed’ worker the day after TV starts in New Zealand [Cartoon by Neil Lonsdale. Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library]

The 1YA Building – home to NZ’s first television studios