[1] The two-and-a-half-hour programme, designed to compete with TVNZ's Breakfast, first went to air on 7 March 2011.
From January 2014, Sacha McNeil and Michael Wilson presented the show.
[2] Firstline features regular technology segments including Tech Bytes on Thursdays, and commentary by Steve Simms, Paul Spain or Ben Gracewood on Mondays.
Unlike most other morning news services at the time, Firstline was solely a news show and did not include magazine or lifestyle segments, instead chose to focus on recent current events, with reports from 3 News reporters and live or pre-recorded interviews.
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