TVNZ 7: Countdown, opener and more, 2008

TVNZ has it’s own news channel of sorts.  It’s called TVNZ 7, and it’s commercial free.

Here’s how the channel works.  From 6am to 9am, 3 hours of rolling news.  The rest of the day’s schedule is made up of 10 minute news bulletins, called TVNZ News Now, and documentaries and information programming for the rest of the hour.  The exception is at 8pm when you have an hour long “TVNZ News at 8”.  From midnight to 6am, TVNZ runs an “overnight information service”, which I must assume to be text based information.

Anyway, here’s a little sample of how the channel looks.

I notice they’ve borrowed the BBC News idea of a countdown to the top of the hour.  Looks quite good.  Shame there’s no facility to watch the channel or at least the bulletins online.

Stay tuned for more after the break.