1Maintaining Tartarakina Microwave Repeater Station Repairing a fault at a remote Hawkes Bay repeater station.

2Auckland Network Newsroom From the start of the day's preparations for the Television new Zealand 6.30pm News this follows how the stories come together for the broadcast. Editors in the four centres coordinate stories they are contributing to the bulletin. The Wellington newsroom supplies the main political content and covers press conferences. At 5pm the news staff have to race from their base to Shortland Street Studios for transmission. Eyewitness News follows the same path.

3Avalon Studios At Avalon studios 1. students get a lecture on how the transmission network works - with a map to show the transmission stations. -- 2. Switchboard Operators. -- 3. The transmitters and how they distribute the signals. -- 4. Diagnosing reception problems. -- 5. Switchboard taking complaints.

4Taitai Translator station Two Broadcasting New Zealand (BCNZ) transmission engineers from Gisborne prepare horses to get up to the Taitai station, but first they need to cross the Tapuwairoa River. This translator means that locals can watch TV One in the local store.

5Auckland Network Newsroom From the start of the day's preparations for the Television new Zealand 6.30pm News this follows how the stories come together for the broadcast. Editors in the four centres coordinate stories they are contributing to the bulletin. The Wellington newsroom supplies the main political content and covers press conferences. At 5pm the news staff have to race from their base to Shortland Street Studios for transmission. Eyewitness News follows the same path.

6McPhail and Gadsby Show The actors and crew prepare for another McPhail and Gadsby Show, along with the writers of this comedy / satire. It covers shooting a sketch about Air New Zealand, both on the floor and from the control room, and a political sketch featuring MP Marilyn Waring.

7Bob Parker Continuity Announcer, Bob Parker, runs a small farm by day and does the late shift at Avalon Studios.

8McPhail and Gadsby Show The actors and crew prepare for another McPhail and Gadsby Show, along with the writers of this comedy / satire. It covers shooting a sketch about Air New Zealand, both on the floor and from the control room, and a political sketch featuring MP Marilyn Waring.

9Filming Country GP The cast is travelling to a location site in the hills around Wellington where a set village has been constructed for this historic drama series.

10Te Karere The Maori news bulletin Te Karere is filming at Hoani Waititi Marae and preparing for broadcast.

11Taitai Translator station Two Broadcasting New Zealand (BCNZ) transmission engineers from Gisborne prepare horses to get up to the Taitai station, but first they need to cross the Tapuwairoa River. This translator means that locals can watch TV One in the local store.

12Programme Standards (Censors) All programmes are all checked before going to air to screen for excessive violence or bad language or other explicit scenes.

13Advertising Booking advertising space is competitive.

14Transmitting TV1 The Avalon TV One transmission control room process, and what happens when you get the wrong programme. Shows the projectors and videotape machines being set up for broadcast,

15BCNZ Audience Surveys and Advertising How audience surveys are compiled, and how the results of these surveys are used to show advertisers the types of audiences they will get for specific programmes.

16MT Kaukau Transmitter Maintenance for this site requires three riggers climbing the 400ft tower to replace corroded parts, and changing a light bulb at the top of the tower

17Taitai Translator station Two Broadcasting New Zealand (BCNZ) transmission engineers from Gisborne prepare horses to get up to the Taitai station, but first they need to cross the Tapuwairoa River. This translator means that locals can watch TV One in the local store.

18Incoming Satellite News Feeds Satellite feeds of overseas news stories come into the Auckland studios twice a day and the programme editors select what they need for their programmes.

19Auckland Network Newsroom From the start of the day's preparations for the Television new Zealand 6.30pm News this follows how the stories come together for the broadcast. Editors in the four centres coordinate stories they are contributing to the bulletin. The Wellington newsroom supplies the main political content and covers press conferences. At 5pm the news staff have to race from their base to Shortland Street Studios for transmission. Eyewitness News follows the same path.

20Outside Broadcast for Motor Racing The Outside Broadcast crew head to the Ashley Forest to cover a Motor Rally Sprint and set up cameras to record the races with a mobile studio.

21Filming Keas A crew from the Natural History Unit, Dunedin, are heading for the Craigiburn Range to film Keas, but these elusive birds make it a long day

22van Asch College for the Deaf Pupils at the college practice a song with children's host Ollie Ohlson and practice sign language.

23Coronet Peak and Obelisk Translators While engineers are at the Coronet Peak site they get a call to repair Obelisk, which requires a ride down on a chairlift and getting a helicopter to pick them up - this is mid-winter.

24Woolly Valley Preparing the children's puppet show 'Woolly Valley" with Wally, Beaty and Tussock.

25Shortland St Studios The broadcast centre for TV2 is from Auckland's Shortland St Studios, and transmission starts at 2pm each day. In some remote areas of the country locals have to run their own landlines from a hilltop aerial to get the programmes.

26Olly Ohlson Children's host Ollie Ohlson was born at Te Whaiti and families in the area have ingenious ways of receiving the transmissions. They have found the best place is on a ridge in a valley - so they have built a TV viewing camp.

27New Zealand Symphony Orchestra The NZSO are at Avalon Studios to rehearse and record a concert for "My Kind of Music".

28Design Department and Scenic Workshop Designers are working on costumes for period drama "Hanlon".

29Top Half The Network News crew in the studio swap seats for the team from the Auckland regional news / magazine programme 'Top Half'.

30Entertainment Department Training School Performers working for the entertainment programmes have weekly classes in dance, singing and acting at Auckland's Hargreave's St rehearsal studios.

31Dunback, Otago, Petition Locals in Dunback, angry at the poor quality of their TV service, have petitioned BCNZ to make improvements in the area. Residents vote on contributing to the costs of a translator.