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16-Nov-2004

A Tui beer advertising billboard proclaiming "There's nothing wrong with Miriam - Yeah Right" is seriously offensive, ridicules transgendered people and contradicts basic human rights, the Advertising Standards Complaints Board says.
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Related Site - Advertising Standards Authority Inc.

3-Mar-1996

The debate on the refusal of Nelson Bay TV to take express Report continues. Mr Bob Hansell, Bay TV director refuses to accept media calls or to respond to the ongoing debate.
Meanwhile the debate continues in the Nelson Mail letter columns with some writers reaching new depths, for example David Lowenstein wrote on February 23, "It is (homosexuality) a matter of lust, with the individual choosing what level of degradation he or she will stoop to."
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25-Feb-1996

A campaign has been launched to have Nelson's Bay TV change its policy on not screening the gay news and lifestyle programme express Report. Bay TV have stated they will not take the show as it does not fit into its family values.
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18-Feb-1996

The debate over Express Report continues in Nelson. Television One's 60 minutes 0900 phone in generated over 12,000 calls of which 80% per opposed to the screening of Express Report. The poll however had no scientific basis and its result is totally meaningless.
A letter writing blitz has been mounted and a T-shirt designed with a slogan and cartoon to try to convince the station it should screen the show. However to date Bay TV has continually stated that they will not screen the show.
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18-Feb-1996

The refusal of Nelson Bay TV to screen Express Report has also prompted the Henry James, Secretary of the Nelson Spectrum gay group to write an the following open letter to Horizon Pacific Television.
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Related Site - Spectrum

18-Feb-1996

The debate in the Nelson newspaper continues with the following letters to the editor appearing in the Nelson Mail.
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11-Feb-1996

The Christian Heritage leader, the Rev Graham Capill, is vowing to monitor Express Report, New Zealand's first gay and lesbian programme, for breaches of the broadcasting code.
They agreed that the premiere on Monday night had conformed to the standards set out in the Broadcasting Act.
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11-Feb-1996

Nelson Bays Television, which is part owned by Horizon Pacific, has stated it will not screen Express Report.
Bays TV co-owner Bob Hansel today said the station's schedule was compiled from only part of the line-up offered to Horizon-owned Canterbury Television, and Express Report would have "too small an audience attraction to warrent its commercial viability", due to the "wide TV audience" which Bays attracted.
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Related Site - Spectrum

4-Feb-1996

In a followup to last week QNA asked Mr Bevan Rickerby, Southern Television general manager, for comment on the original decision to not show Express Report. The only comment to date is no comment in particular to the issue of who did they actually consult.
Maybe they consulted with Mr Grant Bradfield, deputy leader of the Christian Heritage party, who while not able to receive Southern Television had argued against screening Express Report on principle.
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28-Jan-1996

Bevan Rickerby, Southern Television general manager, announced on Thursday that Express Report would now screen on Southern Television.
Despite 60 to 70 percent of the callers and faxes been supportive of Southern Television's decision to not screen the programme a number of prominent people criticised Southern Television's decision
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21-Jan-1996

Southern Television has said it will not screen Express Report, the first gay and lesbian lifestyle programme, after concerns that it wouldn't be well received by viewers and it could jeopardise advertising revenue, general manager Bevan Rickerby said.
Dunedin Mayor, Sukhi Turner, said the reasons for canning the programme are wrong and she doesn't want the rest of New Zealand to think Dunedin is living in the past.
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14-Jan-1996

Television New Zealand's (TVNZ) decision to apologise to John Jamieson of the Christian Democrats has deeply dismayed the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF). The apology was issued in response of a complaint about the use of the words anal intercourse on an item on the selection and use of condoms which appeared in the lifestyle show "Really Living".
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Related Site - NZAF

24-Dec-1995

TVNZ has apologised for an item which offered tips on selecting and using condoms, and included advice on appropriate measures for anal sex, that screened on "Really Living".
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Related Site - TVNZ

10-Dec-1995

The winnders of the 1995 AIDS Media Awards in the five categories are as follows:
Read the full story/Visit the site - NZAF

26-Nov-1995

On the 7th May 1995, Bays Television of Nelson broadcast a programme called "Craving for Love" in which Dr. Neil and Briar Whitehead purported to examine sexual development with particular reference to homosexuality. The argument put forward was the one so diligently put forward by Christian fundamentalists. Through its secretary, Henry James, Spectrum Nelson's group for gay and bisexual men lodged a complaint through the Broadcasting Act 1989 that the programme breached standards G4, G6 and G13 of the Television Code of Practice.
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Related Site - Broadcasting Standards Authority Decision

26-Nov-1995

Horizon Pacific TV and express newspaper announced this week plans for a half-hour programme which will have overseas and local gay news, current affairs, interviews, events and entertainment. They expect the programme to begin in the first week of February and run for 46 weeks. The programme will be broadcast through Horizon Pacific's regional stations in Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
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8-Oct-1995

A new magazine was launched aimed at the New Zealand lesbian and bisexual women community.
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