1 News 18h released temporarily

TVNZ's newsletter 1 was removed for more than five minutes on Wednesday night.

About one minute of Thai cave rescue coverage played before broadcast, resuming at 6:09 pm.

A spokeswoman for the broadcaster said that they had experienced a failure of automation in the news studio while the newsletter was to be broadcast.

This necessitated the reboot of the system, which delayed news coverage in the evening, she said.

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"We apologize to viewers for the delay."

TVNZ was investigating the root cause of the failure.

In January, a fire alarm from Auckland's studio saw the 18-hour bulletin delayed by half an hour. Nine fire trucks and 32 firefighters were called and the staff was evacuated.

TVNZ was out of the air and news was delayed until staff could return to the Hobson St site at approximately 18:30, approximately one hour after the alarm was sounded. .

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