TVNZ 1

TVNZ 1 is the first national television channel owned and operated by the state-owned broadcaster Television New Zealand (TVNZ). It was one of the first major television broadcasters in New Zealand, starting out from 1960 onwards as independent government-operated facilities in the four main centers of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, and eventually began sharing programming between them all in real time in 1969, becoming NZBC. The collective group was renamed Television One in 1975 upon the break-up of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, and became a part of TVNZ in 1980 when Television One and South Pacific Television merged. The channel assumed its current name in 2016.

TV One did not air Thomas & Friends very often. They are known to have only broadcast one episode on 14th April 1989 before the series switched over to the likes of TV3 and Channel 2. It was only in 1995 that TV One began airing Thomas again when they brought children's programming back to their network. The first fifteen episodes of the first series were broadcast from 29th June to 19th July 1995. Ten more episodes followed from 13th to 29th December 1995. Thomas has since not been seen on this network.