Television broadcasting begins
- When
- 1 June 1960
- Where
- Auckland · Tāmaki Makaurau
- Reach
- Several regions
AKTV2 broadcast to a few thousand Auckland sets for two hours a night, opening with a British sitcom.
Christchurch, Wellington and Dunedin followed within two years, though the networks were not linked nationally until 1969 — in time for the moon landing. Television arrived late here by international standards and was state-run and advertising-funded from the start. Its cultural effect was rapid: by the 1970s it had displaced radio and cinema as the shared national experience.
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