TVNZ News And Current Affairs Weekly Update

                                                            Saturday 28th February 2009

AVERAGE TV NEWS VIEWERSHIP ACROSS THE WEEK 19th – 25th FEBRUARY

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

TVNZ

TV3

NZI Breakfast

  32,590

ASB Business

    7,490

Breakfast

123,670

Sunrise

  25,750

ONE News Midday

103,120

3 News at Twelve

  36,210

ONE News

529,360

3 News

305,160

Close Up

402,780

Campbell Live

194,610

Tonight

178,340

Nightline

132,110

This weekend:

It’s been confirmed that Alison Mau will be hosting Breakfast with Paul Henry from later next month while Pippa Wetzell is on maternity leave.  Alison and Paul hosted Breakfast together in 2004.  Recently Ali has been reading the news on Breakfast on Thursday and Friday mornings. (Photo of Ali attached)

International Men’s Hockey – Black Sticks VS India, Third & Fourth Tests this weekend live from Lloyd Elsmore Park in Auckland.  (Saturday 2pm & Sunday 1pm on ONE).

Next week:

Dominic Bowden secured a small piece of the red carpet that was rolled out for the 2009 Oscars in L.A. last week and is putting it up for auction to raise funds for kiwi kids diagnosed with cancer.  The ONE News Entertainment Reporter is now based in L.A. but is sending his very rare souvenir to raise money for Child Cancer.
 

Fab at 40

Miracle on the Hudson – Sunday screens a minute-by-minute account of the US Airways flight that had to ditch into the freezing Hudson River off New York last month. The passengers tell of the terror and exhilaration that accompanies a near-death experience. (Sunday 7:30pm ONE)

Fab 40 year olds – Breakfast is being inundated with entries and photographs for the Nivea Fab at 40 search.  A panel of judges and text votes will determine who takes the title for the hottest 40+ year old in NZ.  The winner receives a huge range of prizes including the opportunity to model for a full page photo shoot to be published in the NZ Woman’s Weekly.

Dancing dominates – The first episode of Dancing with the Stars steals the nations attention. (Tuesday 8:30pm ONE)

Tonight’s Renee Wright examines the fashion field and selects an on-course winner on Wednesday at Ellerslie for Auckland Cup Week.

Beyond the Darklands – Nigel Latta analyses the mind of Ese Faleali’I, the teenager who executed two defenceless men in cold blood during a killing rampage in South Auckland in 2002.  Latta looks at why Faleali’l shot Marcus Doig in the head after he’d already handed over the night’s pizza takings and was complying with his demands to lie on the floor. (Wed 9:30pm ONE).

Live audience opportunity – Media analyst Russell Brown hosts the live recording of Media7 at Auckland's Classic Comedy Club on Wednesday night.  Register to be part of the audience by emailing Lacey at lacey@top-shelf.co.nz .  Media7 screens on TVNZ7 on Thursdays & Saturdays at 9.10pm and Fridays & Tuesdays at 12.10pm.

Transport Thursday hits the Deep South.  Tamati’s Tiki Tour kicks off in Invercargill, then heads to Wanaka for the following Thursday (12th March) and onto Christchurch for Thursday the 19th of March.

20/20 features the story of the man the FBI described as one of the most intelligent criminals they’ve ever dealt.  David Parker Ray was one of the most prolific sexual serial killers in US history and described as The Devil himself. (Thursday 9:30pm TV2)

Rugby 7s – Live coverage of the IRB 7s World Cup Series from Dubai. (Friday 11pm ONE)

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