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TV ONE will screen the two big games of the FIFA World Cup quarter finals LIVE this weekend and in HD.

Martin Devlin begins the build-up at 1:10am for a 2am kick-off for Netherlands v Brazil on Saturday morning and at 1:30am for a 2am kick-off on Sunday morning for Germany v Argentina.

TVNZ 7 will screen Uruguay v Ghana live from 6am Saturday and Paraguay v Spain live from 6am Sunday.

TV ONE will broadcast both semi-final matches, the play-off for 3rd & 4th and the World Cup final LIVE.

TV ONE has just announced it will be screening the big game of the FIFA World Cup second round, England v Germany LIVE on Monday morning.

Martin Devlin presents LIVE coverage of the match that will see two of football’s fiercest rivals face-off in the knockout phase of the tournament.

Former All Whites Noah Hickey and Chris Zoricich will join Devlin in TV ONE’s purpose built FIFA Studio to provide expert analysis during the match.

Build-up begins from 1:30am on TV ONE this Monday morning (28th June).  Kick-off in Bloemfontein is scheduled for 2am.

Argentina v Mexico will screen live on TVNZ 7 from 6am Monday and TV ONE & TVNZ 7 will screen highlights from all second round matches daily.

TV ONE Highlights 5pm-6pm daily with a repeat at 11pm.

TVNZ 7 Highlights 6pm-7pm daily.

TVNZ is looking to sell off its Avalon Studios in Lower Hutt which could see several shows make the move north to Auckland.

A spokeswoman for TVNZ said yesterday the broadcaster is reviewing its assets and that the studios will possibly be sold.

“Ideally we would like to sell it, but we don't have a buyer. It's not officially on the market,” Andi Brotherston said.

"We're always looking at reviewing all our assets, and their value to us."

The studio currently houses popular TVNZ features Good Morning and Lotto, with seasons of Dancing with the Stars also shot in the largest of the digital studios at the venue.

These shows would re-locate to Auckland should the Avalon studios be sold off.

TV ONE’s Breakfast Show has apologised to viewers for being the victim of a prank this morning.

A young man purporting to be a pro-commercial whaling supporter named Jay Pryor was interviewed by Paul Henry on Breakfast this morning after being profiled in a Fairfax Newspaper story at the weekend.

The man had gone to reasonable lengths to dupe the public by creating a false name and setting up a fake website.

Paul Henry’s suspicions were raised during the on-air interview because of the interviewee’s lack of knowledge, despite a Breakfast producer having spoken to “Jay Pryor”, the night before the interview, and believing he was plausible.

We do not know whether the person spoken to by the producer the previous night was the same person who appeared on Breakfast.

While the interviewee was at TVNZ he had his photograph taken with Prime Minister, John Key who was also on Breakfast this morning.

To mark 50 years of television in NZ, TVNZ has trawled back through the archives and compiled a list of the most notable programs to have graced our screens over the past five decades.

Divided into decade blocks, this list features some cracker shows but also one or two that should never have made it to TV in the first place.

Check it out below.

TVNZ has compiled a comprehensive timeline of significant and memorable events that have occured in and around the television industry in New Zealand over the past 50 years.

From the broadcast of the Wahine disaster footage in 1968, to the very first screening of Shortland Street in 1992, it's all there.

Take a trip down memory lane below.

This may not be important news but TV One and TV2 have begun celebrating 50 Years of Television in New Zealand by adding said fact to the DOG's, effective this morning.

I'm hoping they begin screening, very soon, old school network ID's from the 70's to the mid-late 90's.

Since January TV One debuted a new circle logo, since March it now goes to line ups and the info bar, This Week also saw new idents (nearly as the same to TV2) new theme song, replacing the 4 month theme song. Did you see any changes tell me.