TELEVISION NIUE
In 1990 Niue ventured into television broadcasting with Television Niue (TV Niue) operating on an analogue system initially broadcasting for a few hours. Television in Niue began with an American by the name of John Bliss who was granted permission by the Niue government to set up a cable TV system that was known as Bliss Cable-vision. There were attempts to introduce local content
but that did not take too well. As Bliss started expanding his system around the island, TVNZ started to take more interest offering a terrestrial free to air TV channel. The Niue Government bought all of Bliss’s equipment and with the assistance of the Pacific Service of TVNZ more new equipment was acquired leading up to the creation of the Broadcasting Corporation of Niue that would go on to be responsible for TV Niue, Radio Sunshine and the publication NiuExpress. When BCN began its official transmission with TV Niue in 1990 a brand new satellite dish able to receive nightly news direct from TVNZ and other programs that BCN had rights to rebroadcast. The bulk of the programming was on S-VHS cassettes delivered via airfreight each week that was approximately 4-5 hours of TV each night from Monday to Saturday. On Sunday a transmission was usually a live news feed and a movie. Once programs were played to air the cassettes were then returned to NZ. Recent developments to television services in 2016 the Corporation made an announcement of planned expansions to offer more than one channel and a shift from analogue to digital.
