Editing Wellington (section)

== Media ==
=== Newspapers ===
For many years Wellington had two daily newspapers – ''[[The Evening Post (New Zealand)|The Evening Post]]'' in the afternoon and ''[[The Dominion (Wellington)|The Dominion]]'' in the morning. ''The Evening Post'' was founded in 1865  by Dublin-born printer, newspaper manager and leader-writer [[Henry Blundell (publisher)|Henry Blundell]],<ref>{{cite web |title=The Evening Post |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/evening-post |website=Papers Past |access-date=21 November 2024}}</ref> while ''The Dominion'' was first published on 26 September 1907, the day New Zealand achieved [[Dominion]] status.<ref name=Papers_Past_Dom>{{cite web |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/dominion |title=The Dominion |work=Papers Past |publisher=National Library of New Zealand |access-date=22 July 2018}}</ref> The two newspapers merged in 2002 to form ''The Dominion Post''<ref>{{cite web |title=The Dominion |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/dominion |website=Papers Past |access-date=21 November 2024}}</ref> and in April 2023 the merged newspaper was renamed ''[[The Post (New Zealand newspaper)|The Post]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Stuff to put up first paywalls for news |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018887771/stuff-to-put-up-first-paywalls-for-news |access-date=28 April 2023 |work=[[Radio New Zealand]] |date=27 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230427075101/https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018887771/stuff-to-put-up-first-paywalls-for-news |archive-date=27 April 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Radio ===
Wellington is [[List of radio stations in Wellington|served by 26 full-power radio stations]]: 17 on FM, four on AM, and five on both FM and AM.

=== Television ===
Television broadcasts began in Wellington on 1 July 1961 with the launch of channel WNTV1, becoming the third New Zealand city (after Auckland and Christchurch) to receive regular television broadcasts. WNTV1's main studios were in Waring Taylor Street in central Wellington and broadcast from a transmitter atop Mount Victoria. In 1967, the Mount Victoria transmitter was replaced with a more powerful transmitter at [[Mount Kaukau]].<ref>{{cite news|date=28 June 1967|title=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|publisher=New Zealand Parliament|volume=351|page=1394}}</ref> In November 1969, WNTV1 was networked with its counterpart stations in Auckland, Christchurch and Dunedin to form NZBC TV.

In 1975, the NZBC was broken up, with Wellington and Dunedin studios taking over NZBC TV as [[TVNZ 1|Television One]] while Auckland and Christchurch studios launched [[TVNZ 2|Television Two]]. At the same time, the Wellington studios moved to the new purpose-built [[Avalon, New Zealand|Avalon Television Centre]] in Lower Hutt. In 1980, Televisions One and Two merged under a single company, [[TVNZ|Television New Zealand]] (TVNZ). The majority of television production moved to Auckland over the 1980s, culminating in the opening of TVNZ's new Auckland television centre in 1989.

Today, digital terrestrial television ([[Freeview (New Zealand)|Freeview]]) is available in the city, transmitting from Mount Kaukau plus three infill transmitters at Baxters Knob, Fitzherbert, and Haywards.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Coverage Maps|url=https://www.freeviewnz.tv/faq-library/about-digital-tv/coverage-maps/|access-date=6 November 2020|website=Freeview}}</ref>