Channel 39

03/12/2025

Watch full coverage of the Collections Fashion Show '25 here; https://www.odt.co.nz/features/southern-television/collections-graduate-fashion-show-2025

03/12/2025

https://www.odt.co.nz/features/southern-television/collections-graduate-fashion-show-2025

Coverage of the Otago Polytechnic School of Design Fashion - Collections Graduate Fashion Show 2025

29/05/2024

https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/rugby/landers-chat/odt-landers-chat-highlanders-awards-2024

PD is at the Highlanders Awards night for Landers Chat this week. There are 14 trophies up for grabs and there are rumours that some players have...

15/05/2024

Episode 7 Puketeraki

Hakitekura at centre of ill-fated love story Hakitekura at centre of ill-fated love story The landscape of Te Waipounamu sustained and shaped its people, who storied it with deeds fantastic, tragic and universal.

02/04/2024

Latest episode of Toitū te Whenua

The history of Otago Peninsula is written in its names. It’s dialect and then some, the way locals refer to Ōtākou. As often as not, they’ll...

23/03/2024

Still doing things…

27/01/2024

https://www.odt.co.nz/features/channel-39/pack-park-2024-live-stream

Pack the Park 2024 Live Stream

18/12/2023

:( It's still officially in the "consultation process" stage, but it looks like the lights will be turned off on New Zealand's longest-surviving regional TV station, Channel 39, after 26 years on air.

Allied Press is considering plans to close the Dunedin-based station, which launched as a full service television station in 1997, under the name Channel 9 (following the closure of TVNZ's Horizon Pacific network and the Southern Television station).

Channel 9/39 has broadcast a wide range of community programming over the years, including local news and sport, events coverage, shopping shows, arts and lifestyle shows, music programming, children's programming, nature documentaries, and infamous student series COW TV.

The station's helped launch the media careers of a host of reporters, presenters, camera operators, editors, and technical staff, with many going on to great success at TVNZ, TV3, Sky TV, RNZ, and broadcasters overseas.

The current proposal would see the daily 20 minute South Island news bulletin cease, although some regional video news would continue under The South Today brand, via the ODT and regional websites. (Production house Allied Productions will also continue operating as normal).

(Short video summary in the story below)...

Allied Press is consulting over a proposal to close its broadcast television station Channel 39. Allied Press chief executive Grant McKenzie said...

07/12/2023

Huge apologies to our Invercargill and Southland viewers who may have missed this notice in the Southland Express.
Thanks for your support and viewership while we broadcast in your area.
The South Today bulletin can be found at www.odt.co.nz or on Channel 39 YouTube

24/11/2023

Episode 2 is now available

Toitū te whenua - Māorii Place Names Series