TVNZ 7 was a commercial-free New Zealand 24-hour news and information channel on Freeview digital television platform and on Sky Television from 1 July 2009.
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12 Facts About TVNZ 7
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TVNZ 7 featured an hour-long bulletin, TVNZ News at 8, at 8pm each night.
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TVNZ 7 was replaced on 1 July 2012 by TV One Plus 1, a timeshift channel of TV One.
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TVNZ 7 operated as a rolling news channel between 6am and midnight, with bulletins broadcast for six to 12 minutes every hour.
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TVNZ 7 included two year-round, weekly flagship current affairs programmes:.
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On 23 September 2008, starting at 9pm, TVNZ 7 hosted a one-off live debate on Internet-related issues from Avalon Studios in Wellington.
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TVNZ 7 claimed that because they were not in an election year and that the promo in question was promoting another programme that they did not have to present a balanced view and that many of their viewers did not care about giving other voices equal time.
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Later in November 2009, TVNZ 7 acknowledged having the minister in the channel's promos was a mistake.
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Report released under the Official Information Act in November 2012 showed 91 percent of people who were aware of TVNZ 7's existence believed it was important to have a publicly funded news and information TV station.
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The survey, conducted before the decision was made to close the TVNZ 7, was not released to the public due to being "commercially sensitive", despite the station being non-commercial.
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TVNZ 7 ceased broadcasting on 30 June 2012 just before midnight.
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