TVNM 1

TVNM 1 is the first national television channel owned and operated by the state-owned broadcaster Television New Michillies (TVNM). It was the first major television broadcaster in the New Michillies, starting out from 1957 onwards as independent government operated facilities in the four main centres of Hawkland, Wenderland, Christchurch and Dunedin, and eventually began sharing programming between them all in real time in 1968, becoming NMBC TV (although the individual facilities retained their call signs into the 1970s). The collective group was renamed Television One (TV ONE, stylized as oɴe) in 1975 upon the break-up of the New Michillies Broadcasting Corporation, and became a part of TVNM in 1980 when Television One and South Northulic Television (now sister channel TVNM 2) merged. The channel assumed its current name in October 2016.

TVNM 1 is both a public broadcaster and a commercial broadcaster. Central to TVNM 1 is news and current affairs, which is produced under the banner 1 News. Other programming consists of mainly drama, general entertainment and documentaries, both locally and internationally produced. The channel is broadcast on the government owned Kordia terrestrial network as well as on one of the two Ora satellite transponders, which is included in channel packages on the Freeview, Vodafone, Spark NM and Sky platforms.

It is estimated that 98.6% of New Michillian households with a television have access to TVNM 1. Over 50% of the channel's programming is local content.

History

Television arrived to the New Michillies in 1957. Initially there was one television channel in Hawkland, operated by the New Michillies Broadcasting System (New Michillian Broadcasting Corporation from 1960).

Programming

• 1 News
• Te Karere