TVNZ News & Current Affairs Weekly Update

TVNZ News & Current Affairs Weekly Update
Saturday 14th February 2009
This week:
Average TV News Viewership Across The Week 5th – 11th February

Source: AGB NMR (Measurement: All people 5 years and over - average audience nationwide)

NZI Business 28,950 ASB Business 13,270
Breakfast 123,880 Sunrise 28,130
ONE News Midday 108,400 3 News at Twelve 28,590
ONE News 566,330 3 News 286,290
Close Up 423,600 Campbell Live 182,370
Tonight 202,320 Nightline 163,000

BEST ON BOX FINALISTS – TV Guide has announced their annual list of finalists for the Best on the Box Awards The awards are retrospective and ask voters to decide on the best programmes and presenters for 2008.

TVNZ’s Bernadine Oliver-Kerby & Pippa Wetzell have been named in the Sexiest Woman category.

Simon Dallow and Tamati Coffee are in the Sexiest Man category.

Dallow also features in Best News Presenter along with Wendy Petrie and Bernadine Oliver-Kerby.

Cameron Bennett, Paul Henry, Miriama Kamo and Mark Sainsbury are finalists in Best Current Affairs Presenter.

Kevin Milne and Jeremy Wells are in Best Presenter – General.

TV ONE’s entire weather team - Jim Hickey, Karen Olsen, Renee Wright and Tamati Coffey are all finalists in the Best Weather Presenter.

Best Sport Presenter features Geoff Bryan, Tony Veitch and Andrew Saville.

Rising Star has Matt McLean from the Wellington newsroom and Jack Tame from the Christchurch newsroom as 2 of the 5 finalists.

ONE News and Tonight feature in Best News.

Close Up, Sunday and 20/20 all make the Best Current Affairs category.

TV ONE’s election coverage, Sir Edmund Hillary’s funeral and coverage of the Beijing Olympics are up for awards

A full list of the finalists and voting forms has been published in the latest edition of TV Guide.

Next Week:

SUNDAY 2009 – SUNDAY’s first programme for 2009 features an in-depth look at the Australian Bush Fires by Cameron Bennett who has spent the last week in the worst affected areas of Victoria.
PETER WILLIAMS REVEALED – BREAKFAST’s News Anchor and human encyclopaedia, Peter Williams is John Cowan’s guest on “Real Life” this Sunday night between 8pm-9pm on Newstalk ZB.

NATIONAL SEARCH - Paul & Pippa are embarking on a national search and will announce details on BREAKFAST on Tuesday morning.

POLITICS FROM THE PUB – Cult TVNZ7 show BACK BENCHES is back on Wednesday night at 9:10pm from the legendary Backbencher Bar in Wellington. Wallace Chapman returns as the host and the country’s leading political producer, Maryanne Ahern is pulling it all together behind the scenes.

TOP-RATER RETURNS - FAIR GO is back on Wednesday night and expecting the economic downturn to bring up a whole new range of consumer challenges.

CORAL’S KILLER – Forensic Psychologist, Nigel Latta looks into the past of Steven Williams – the Featherston man who killed his six-year-old stepdaughter, Coral Burrows in 2003. At the time Williams blamed methamphetamine for his violence, claiming he killed her after a 3 day P-smoking binge but as Nigel Latta reveals in his new series of BEYOND THE DARKLANDS it was far more complicated – Williams was an extremely complex man with a comprehensive criminal history of violence. (Wednesday night TVONE 9:35pm)

MASS MUSICAL - Mark Sainsbury & Wendy Petrie are hosting the annual Skycity Starlight Symphony on Saturday at Auckland’s Domain. Brooke Fraser is returning to NZ to headline the concert that 100,000 are expected to attend. All funds raised go to Make-a-wish Foundation

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