List of New Zealand television channels

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Provision was first made for the licensing of private radio and television stations in New Zealand by the Broadcasting Act 1976 (see sections 24(1) (g) and 95(1)(f)).

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[edit] Government Owned Networks

[edit] Television New Zealand

Television New Zealand (TVNZ) has the largest market share of any television network or station operator. TVNZ had a monopoly on TV in New Zealand until 1989. It operates:

  • TV One - news, current affairs, general entertainment, documentaries and sport
  • TV2 - movies, soap operas, popular music, aimed at a younger audience

TVNZ also operated another network on UHF, called Horizon Pacific, which carried a mix of regional programming, imported and repeat old New Zealand programming and a feed from BBC World, as well as documentaries, between 1995 and 1997. This network was closed and was replaced by a local version of MTV, which itself closed a year later. The feed from BBC World is now carried by TV One after local programming finishes (usually between about 1 am and 6 am).

[edit] Māori Television

A long-planned free-to-air state-supported TV channel, broadcasting partly in Māori, known as Māori Television, opened on 28 March 2004. Headquarters are in Newmarket, Auckland.

[edit] FreeView

FreeView is a planned non-profit free to air digital television service. It will be available on UHF and satellite.

[edit] Private stations

[edit] National

Private TV channels currently broadcasting generally throughout New Zealand are:

[edit] Canwest MediaWorks NZ

Canwest MediaWorks NZ is New Zealand's second biggest free to air broadcaster. CanwestMediaWorks operates:

  • TV3 - news, current affairs, general entertainment, and sport
  • C4 - youth music channel

[edit] Prime Television New Zealand

The country's first private TV channel, TV3, experienced serious financial problems before being acquired by Canada's CanWest, which owns Network Ten in Australia, and part of TV3 in the Republic of Ireland. In 1998, TV3 launched a youth oriented channel, called TV4, which failed in the ratings and was replaced in 2003 by a free-to-air music channel called C4.

Prime TV, originally a channel specialising in more high-brow documentaries and dramas, changed format to general entertainment (with considerable Australian content) after becoming partly owned by Australia's Nine Network. Sky Television now owns Prime TV.

[edit] Regional

New Zealand's deregulated broadcasting environment has led to many regional stations (either non-commercial public service or privately owned) that broadcast only in one region or city. These stations mainly broadcast free to air on UHF frequencies, however some are carried on subscription (Sky) TV. Content ranges from local news, access broadcasts, satellite sourced news, tourist information and Christian programming to music videos.

  • Family TV - Warkworth and Waikato - General / Family / Christian programming
  • Juice TV - Auckland - privately owned free-to-air music TV channel, is available on UHF ch57 and on Sky Network Television's DHS satellite service and on TelstraClear's cable TV network.
  • Alt TV - Auckland - private free-to-air music TV channel, was launched on UHF ch62 in November 2005. ALT TV is into Rock, Electronica, Hip-Hop, Soul and RnB. (also on SKY TV, beginning Friday December 1 on Channel 36).
  • Triangle TV provides public service and access programming in English and other languages on Government-owned non-commercial frequencies since August 1998. Triangle TV is available primarily on UHF ch41, with infill coverage on ch42 (East Coast Bays) and ch52 (Remuera).
  • Triangle Television Wellington Triangle Television is licenced by the Government to start broadcasting on the non-commercial frequencies in Wellington. The station started broadcasting on 25th August, 2006 on UHF channels 40 and 41.
  • Big TV - Hamilton
  • FTN Waikato - Matamata - Christian programming
  • Geyser Television - Rotorua - tourist programming
  • Channel 61 - Taupo - tourist programming
  • Channel 51 - Napier
  • 7 Taranaki - New Plymouth
  • Tararua TV - Pahiatua
  • City TV - Wellington
  • Mainland Television - Nelson, offering four channels.
  • Shine TV - Christchurch - Christian programming (also on Sky TV)
  • Canterbury Television (CTV) - Christchurch
  • Visitor TV (VTV) - Christchurch
  • 45 South TV - Timaru & Oamaru
  • Channel 9 - Dunedin.
  • Southland TV - mainly distance learning and local news (also on Sky TV)

Over a dozen regional television stations in New Zealand are grouped by the Regional Broadcasters Association.

[edit] Pay Television Channels

New Zealand has a number of television channels that are, or have, been only available on pay television networks.

[edit] Sky Network Television

In 1990, Sky Network Television (then unrelated to its UK namesake) launched three pay-TV channels offering movies, sport and news on UHF these overtime expanded to five. In 1999 it launched a multichannel digital satellite TV service, including a music channel called Juice.

[edit] WTV

[edit] TelstraClear

TelstraClear currently operate a cable television network in Wellington, Kapati and Christchurch. Customers can subscribe to plans incorporating between 25 and 48 channels. Most content is offered on behalf of Sky Network Television however some channels such as TBN, Discovery Travel and Adventure and Deutsche welle are broadcast exclusively through TelstraClear.

[edit] Mirchee TV

Mirchee TV is an Indian TV station with 4 channels broadcasting with DVB-S from the Sky Tower and from Waiatarua. Interestingly, they are using a satellite technology terrestrialy that was originally used by ihug's failed IDTV service.

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