Twenty years ago this month a new channel full of music videos and edgy youth-oriented programming arrived on New Zealand screens. We look back on the glory days of C4.
Being at the wrong end of a Top 100 countdown shouldn’t be more significant than taking the top spot, but for The D4 it left them with a legacy even Nirvana couldn’t boast. Twenty years ago, at 8pm on 3 October 2003, the Auckland band’s video for ‘Exit to the City’ marked the arrival of a brand new free-to-air music TV channel called C4.
