Stratos - Latest News [Page 2]
Are people today smarter than people of a century ago?
Thursday, 12 May 2011, 10:15 am | Stratos
What is it that increases intelligence -- our genes? education? nutrition? Emeritus Professor of political studies at the University of Otago, Jim Flynn, recently published "The Torchlight List" in which he promoted the idea that one of the best ... More >>
Stratos Highlights for May 8 - May 21 2011
Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 10:47 am | Stratos
Stratos Television welcomes back one of its most highly anticipated shows - Eurovision Song Contest. Hosted in Dusseldorf, Germany the organisers have gone all out with everything from staging, lighting and costumes to make this year's competition fiercer ... More >>
The End of the Automobile?
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 11:47 am | Stratos
Oil prices are skyrocketing, carbon emissions are deplored and they face extra taxation. Biofuels have produced little more than controversy. Dr John Robinson, a research scientist, tells us to prepare for a changed society after the one-century life of ... More >>
Stratos TV update
Monday, 18 April 2011, 2:06 pm | Stratos
With the revamp of Stratos TV and its recent shift to Freeview channel 21, there’s a great range of new shows on offer. We’ve started a Facebook page which updates regularly on our newest shows, latest news and is a great space for you to talk about ... More >>
Stratos TV: Highlights for April 24 - May 7 2011
Monday, 11 April 2011, 10:53 am | Stratos
Stratos TV introduces a new Kiwi show in May that's perfect for Saturday afternoons, Bikerider TV. The locally made series has shifted from Sky Sport to Stratos TV joining the hot new schedule of programmes on offer with Stratos TV's nationwide move to ... More >>
Teenage and Pregnant? She may need legal assistance
Thursday, 7 April 2011, 11:04 am | Stratos
Although there are no laws that say when a teenager over 16 may become pregnant, there will be many times throughout the pregnancy where she will have to make 'legal' decisions. Sometimes she's on her own. More >>
Party time as Eurovision returns to Stratos
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 1:21 pm | Stratos
The world’s biggest party is back with greater glam and shorter skirts - Eurovision Song Contest returns to Stratos TV (Freeview channel 21) from May 11. More >>
Perigo probes politics during election year
Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 11:25 am | Stratos
One of New Zealand’s most acclaimed journalists is returning to the small screen to probe the minds of top political and business commentators. More >>
Foodies fill up on new show
Monday, 28 March 2011, 11:33 am | Stratos
Finally a show made for foodies and culinary creatives has hit screens nationwide on Stratos TV. More >>
Photographer, Brian Brake. "In Conversation with Noel Cheer"
Thursday, 17 March 2011, 1:26 pm | Stratos
Athol McCredie, curator of photography at Te Papa Tongarewa, The Museum of New Zealand, in Wellington, describes the current exhibition of works of the late Brian Brake on Triangle/Stratos Television. Brian Brake made his mark with his celebrated "painting ... More >>
New Drama Series Comes To Stratos TV
Monday, 14 March 2011, 10:17 am | Stratos
Internationally acclaimed television series “City of Men” drew a massive 35 million viewers when it aired in Brazil. More >>
Local line up leading prime time
Monday, 28 February 2011, 10:52 am | Stratos
Stratos is known for featuring some of the best documentaries, current affairs and international dramas but their new series of kiwi shows has got everyone talking - literally. More >>
Stratos TV to show clever Kiwi kids building robots
Monday, 21 February 2011, 12:07 pm | Stratos
New Zealand independent broadcaster Stratos Television is to screen New Zealand students and their robots battling it out in the NZ VEX Robotics National Championships final live on Sunday March 6. More >>
Stratos Highlights for March 1 - March 14 2011
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 2:32 pm | Stratos
Stratos is going free-to-air on the Freeview platform from March 1. NZ's only truly independent, nationwide broadcaster is throwing down the gauntlet to challenge for the country's main 6pm news hour. In fact it is serving up 90 minutes of purely international ... More >>
EUROMAXX ON TOUR: The Blossoming Border
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 11:35 am | Stratos
This year, Germany is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall. To mark the occasion, euromaxx reporter Anne-Katrin Gottschling is embarking on a grand tour. Traveling on a Simson motor scooter, she takes a two-week tour along ... More >>
Bomber back on air with news satire
Wednesday, 24 June 2009, 3:43 pm | Stratos
New Zealand’s “most opinionated man”* Martyn Bomber Bradbury is back to serve up his satirical brand of alternative media commentary to anyone who finds today’s mainstream, corporate-owned news offerings a tad unpalatable. He says “Bomber’s ... More >>
Stratos goes inside the North Korea row
Wednesday, 27 May 2009, 12:15 pm | Stratos
Stratos Television’s live access to Al Jazeera English will today give New Zealand viewers another window to the diplomatic fallout over the nuclear test and missile launching carried out in North Korea. More >>
Who Will Be The New Kiwi Karaoke Kid?
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 3:07 pm | Stratos
Viewers of 'The Beat Goes On' on Stratos and Triangle TV on Monday nights will from next week have the opportunity to vote for their favourite Karaoke Kid. But there's a catch! Because this 'kid' will be over 50 years old! The first contestants in the ... More >>
Eurovision Song Contest on Triangle and Stratos TV
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 9:40 am | Stratos
The show that gave the world ABBA, Celine Dion, Cliff Richards, Julio Iglesias and even Riverdance is about to hit New Zealand television screens again in May. The Eurovision Song Contest is viewed each year by more than 100 million people throughout ... More >>
Stratos Highlight - Dear Mr Waldman
Tuesday, 31 March 2009, 3:18 pm | Stratos
Writer/director Hanan Peled has crafted a magnificent film that has as much to say about blind devotion and chronic denialism - ironically, on both sides of the Nazi persecution of the Jews - as the immediate and lingering effects of systemic ethnic ... More >>