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Rhema Broadcasting Group
Rhema Broadcasting Group is New Zealand's largest Christian media organisation, broadcasting four radio networks and a television station, and publishing a quarterly devotional publication, from the Rhema Broadcasting Centre on Upper Queen Street in the central Auckland suburb of Newton...
and broadcast on Sky TV
SKY Network Television
Sky Network Television Limited , , is a New Zealand pay television service. On 30 June 2011, Sky had 829,421 subscribers, which comprises:*808,617 digital subscribers*20,840 other subscribers...
channel 111, Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
UHF 56, Nelson
Nelson, New Zealand
Nelson is a city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay, and is the economic and cultural centre of the Nelson-Tasman region. Established in 1841, it is the second oldest settled city in New Zealand and the oldest in the South Island....
UHF 44, Telstra Clear Digital TV and Freeview Channel 25 . It includes a mixture of locally made and overseas programming.
Shine TV is affiliated with United Christian Broadcasters
United Christian Broadcasters
United Christian Broadcasters is an international Christian broadcasting and media group. Through affiliates in twenty five countries, it operates radio and television stations and publishes and broadcasts Bob Gass's free daily devotionals The Word for You Today and word4u2day...
. UCB once owned the network of UHF station licences used by Prime Television New Zealand
Prime Television New Zealand
Prime is the seventh national free-to-air television station in New Zealand. The station airs a mixed group of programmes, largely imported from Australia, the UK and the United States, as well as free-to-air rugby union, cricket and rugby league matches....
, but they sold them before Shine was launched.
From 2004 to 2007 Shine TV produced and broadcast its flagship current affairs programme Nzone. It aired Tuesdays and Thursdays at 20:00, and was hosted by Tim Sisarich and Bob McCoskrie. The programme opposed the criminalistion of corporal punishment in New Zealand
Child Discipline Act
The Crimes Amendment Act 2007 is an amendment to the New Zealand's Crimes Act 1961 which removed the legal defence of "reasonable force" for parents prosecuted for assault on their children...
and took a pro-life
Pro-life
Opposition to the legalization of abortion is centered around the pro-life, or anti-abortion, movement, a social and political movement opposing elective abortion on moral grounds and supporting its legal prohibition or restriction...
editorial stance to abortion
Abortion
Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability. An abortion can occur spontaneously, in which case it is usually called a miscarriage, or it can be purposely induced...
. These presenters have since become the heads of Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family is an American evangelical Christian tax-exempt non-profit organization founded in 1977 by psychologist James Dobson, and is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Focus on the Family is one of a number of evangelical parachurch organizations that rose to prominence in the 1980s...
New Zealand and Family First New Zealand
Family First New Zealand
Family First New Zealand is a conservative advocacy group in New Zealand.It formed in March 2006 with former Radio Rhema talkback host and South Auckland social worker Bob McCoskrie as the National Director...
respectively, which worked on the petition for the Citizenship's Initiated Referendum on corporal punishment.
From 2007 to 2009 this became Nzone Tonight, a daily newscast and current affairs programme. The programme was presented by Rachel Thomas
Rachel Thomas
Rachel Thomas OBE , was a Welsh character actress, well known to film and television audiences.Born in the village of Alltwen, near Pontardawe, Wales, she appeared in such classic films as The Proud Valley with Paul Robeson, Blue Scar and Tiger Bay...
and Asher Bastion and the sportscasters were Andrew Curtis
Andrew Curtis
Andrew Curtis is a former Australian rules football goal umpire.-WAFL:Curtis began his career as a goal umpire with the North Pilbara Football League in 1988. He was transferred by his employer BHP Billiton to Launceston, Tasmania where he continued his umpiring career with the Tasmanian Football...
and Brooke Dobson. The producer and lead reporter was Rhema Broadcasting Group
Rhema Broadcasting Group
Rhema Broadcasting Group is New Zealand's largest Christian media organisation, broadcasting four radio networks and a television station, and publishing a quarterly devotional publication, from the Rhema Broadcasting Centre on Upper Queen Street in the central Auckland suburb of Newton...
Head of News and Current Affairs Allan Lee
Allan Lee
Allan Lee is a film editor that has been nominated for two Genie Awards .In 1991 Lee was nominated for the Genie for Best Achievement in Film Editing for Chaindance , and in 1989 he was nominated for the Genie for Best Achievement in Film Editing for A Winter Tan , along with Susan Martin...
. Various Rhema Broadcasting Group
Rhema Broadcasting Group
Rhema Broadcasting Group is New Zealand's largest Christian media organisation, broadcasting four radio networks and a television station, and publishing a quarterly devotional publication, from the Rhema Broadcasting Centre on Upper Queen Street in the central Auckland suburb of Newton...
staff members reported for the programme. Other stories were sourced from news affiliates Newstalk ZB
Newstalk ZB
Newstalk ZB is a nationwide New Zealand talk radio network operated by The Radio Network of New Zealand . It is available in almost every radio market in the country, and has news reporters based in many of them...
and UCB
UCB
UCB may stand for:Universities:* The University of California, Berkeley, United States* The University of Colorado at Boulder, United States* University College of Bahrain, Saar, Bahrain* University College Birmingham, England, UK...
UK, and freely from Voice of America
Voice of America
Voice of America is the official external broadcast institution of the United States federal government. It is one of five civilian U.S. international broadcasters working under the umbrella of the Broadcasting Board of Governors . VOA provides a wide range of programming for broadcast on radio...
.
Since 2009 the programme has undergone a further relaunch as a thirty minute weekly television newsmagazine
Newsmagazine
A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published piece of paper, magazine or a radio or television program, usually weekly, featuring articles or segments on current events...
, broadcast first at 20:30 Fridays and again 21:30 Saturdays and 19:00 Sundays. Asher Bastion, Brooke Dobson and Allan Lee
Allan Lee
Allan Lee is a film editor that has been nominated for two Genie Awards .In 1991 Lee was nominated for the Genie for Best Achievement in Film Editing for Chaindance , and in 1989 he was nominated for the Genie for Best Achievement in Film Editing for A Winter Tan , along with Susan Martin...
present, report and produce the programme.