New Zealand – International television production company NHNZ’s new purpose-built premises in Dunedin have been officially opened by New Zealand Prime Minister John Key at a function attended by television industry representatives from New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Singapore. Prime Minister Key praised NHNZ for its innovative work which kept its programmes being shown on “dozens and dozens” of television channels in 180 countries around the world. “This is a remarkable company that has its products all around the world. The secret of New Zealand is its creativity and brilliance of its people and that seems to be the ethos of this company.” It was not as though NHNZ did not face competition internationally against companies with deep pockets, he said. But the winning of contracts and the ongoing success was a credit to all of the people who worked for the company. NHNZ managing director Michael Stedman said the company had started in a small way in Dunedin about 35 years ago. Now, it had a company in Singapore, had a significant shareholding in South Africa’s largest wildlife-documentary maker, had a base in Washington DC and was the largest Western producer of documentaries in China. The multi-million dollar refurbishment includes 11 edit suites and three sound suites, state-of-the-art online facilities, a computer graphic suite, a gaming unit and an expanding emerging media division. 55 kilometres (34 miles) of wiring have been installed, including fibre optic cables so that data can be transferred a lot faster. And with 100 terabytes (100,000 GB) of computing power, Stedman said the new facilities positioned the company well for the next 15 to 20 years.
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