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    Vincent Aspey

    When nine-year-old Vincent Aspey persuaded his mother to buy a violin he had spotted in a second-hand shop she was dubious that he would practice, let alone come to be described as ‘synonymous with orchestral development in New Zealand’.

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NZ's first official TV broadcast

1960 NZ's first official TV broadcast

Broadcast from Shortland Street in central Auckland, New Zealand's first official television transmission began at 7.30 p.m. The first night's programming lasted just three hours and could only be seen in Auckland.

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1960 - key eventsTelevision in New Zealand

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  • History of TV in New Zealand (TVNZ)
  • Broadcasting and Television (1966 encyclopaedia)
  • Film and Broadcasting (Te Ara)
  • 25 Years of TV (documentary, NZOnScreen)
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